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Sri Parthasarathi thunai,
Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

? Mattrondrum vEinda Maname Madhilarangar
Kattrinum meitha kazhalinai keezh- uttra
Thirumaalai paadum seer Thondaradipodi Emperumaanai
Eppozhudum peesu?

? Srimat Krishna samahvaya Namo yaamuna soonave 
yetkadAkshai kalakshyAnAm sulabha: Sridara: sadaa?

Pranams,

Paasuram-45 (Last paasuram)

?valavezhum tavalamAda madurai maa nagaranthannul
kavalamAl yAnai kondra kannanai arangamAlai
tuvalath thondAya tholseer thondaradi podi sol
elaiya pun kavidhai yElum empirArkku eniyavArE.? 

valavezhum tavalamAda madurai maa nagaranthannul: The leelAs of emperuman are 
unpredictable by ordinary people. In the last paasuram alwar talked about 
bhagavan coming running to the call of an elephant, gajendran. Immediately 
alwar remembers about another elephant, which was killed by bhagavan, 
kuvalayApeedam, during the krishnAvatAram. In this paasuram he talks aboutthe 
same. Krishna was the eighth child of Devaki. According to the asereeree voice 
kamsan heard on the wedding of devaki, this child will kill him.So kamsan 
planned to kill krishna before he could grow up. So kamsan arranged for a danur 
yAgam and invited Krishna and balarama also to the festival. He had actually 
planned to kill the two boys during the festival.

First kamsa kept a furious elephant at the entrance and ordered the keeper to 
be alert. When Krishna and balaram came the elephant should pounce on them and 
kill them. But the reverse happened. For sometime, Krishna playedwith the 
elephant and then finally he killed it and Krishna and balaram entered the 
festive ground with the tusk of the elephant in their hands held over their 
shoulders.

Mathura even today has its speciality since it was the birthplace of our kutti 
kannan. Alwar says, ?tavalamAda? ?the palaces in madurai were made of marbles. 
It was a big and rich city.

kavalamAl yAnai kondra kannanai arangamAlai: The big elephant which was 
standing fully decorated and eating the sugarcane put for it was actually a 
fake instrument to kill Krishna and balaram. Gajendra was a bhAgavatan so 
perumal came running to save him. But this elephant was a cheat and wanted to 
kill perumal and hence perumal killed it even before it can try doing anything. 
That is the nature of bhagavan. If we show love towards him he reflects the 
same but at the same time if we show hatred he becomes furious. Arjunan fell 
under krishna?s feet so he did everything to save him but duriyOdhana put a 
false seat to Krishna (pandava dhoodha) and hence Krishna played all tricks to 
make duriyOdhana loose. 

While telling about the elephant alwar says, ?valavezhum tavalamAda madurai maa 
nagaranthannul kavalamAl yAnai? but the same alwar doesn?t explain much about 
how Krishna killed it because how much ever big the elephant may appear to 
others Krishna is capable of killing it just in a second and hence alwar just 
finishes saying, ?kondra?. It was killed, that?s it. Such a big work has been 
done so easily. That is natural for bhagavan. Even after seeing this great 
work, the paratvam of bhagavan alwar doesn?t say perumal or bhagavan etc he 
says only ?kannanai?. Our alwars and acharyas when they talk about Sri rAma 
piran, never utter his name even by mistake. They either say perumAl or 
chakravarthi thirumagan. But when it comes to krishnAvatAram they never even by 
mistake say perumal they call him only as Krishnan, kannan, kutti kannan etc. 
This is due to the sowlabhyam showed by Krishnan. Even when they say, Sri 
nandagOpa kumaran the ?Sri? is only for nandan and not Krishnan.

Let us enjoy the last part of the last paasuram in the final posting in this 
series.

(To be continued)

AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam
Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai
Sumithra Varadarajan


 



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