The Deeds of the
Divine Feet
Having emotionally requested for
the thiru-vaDi of the Almighty, sriman nArAyaNA graced sri thirumangai
mannan by directing him to the thiruvarangam.
"Here I am in thiruvarangam for your sake "
.
Sri thirumangai AzhwAr proceeds to
kOil and recalls the deeds of the
Lord.
The Deeds of the Divine feet is
recalled.
Sri krshNA felled kamsan and
placed His divine feet on him and vanquished.
The wrestlers were beaten to
ground and his divine feet brought them their end.
A delay in mother's milk made sri
krshNA to elongate His little feet to finish off the demon
-sakaTAsuran.
All these three are described by
sri kaliyan in a single sentence highlighting the deeds of the divine
feet of Lord sri krshNA.
"... kanjan nenjum,
kaDum mallarum, sakaTamum,
kAlinAl thunja, chudar AzhiyAn
vAzhidam enbarAl......" 5-4-7;
Here, the intense hatred and
tenacity of kamsan's mind is highlighted by the word 'kanjan nenjum'.
How, come it can be said that even
kamsan and the wrestlers are also demolished by the divine feet, when it
is known that the sakaTAsuran is the one who was destroyed
so?
kamsan was pulled by the hair and
pushed down and the divine feet was placed on his back. The wrestlers
were bracketed by the same divine feet. Therefore, AzhwAr mentions
all these three as the divine deeds of the divine
feet.
Sri periya vAchAn piLLai " thalai mayirai pidithu, kEzhEA vizha vittu mudhugilEa
thiruvaDigaLAlEa pAindhadhum,
mallar vargathai
thAnEa thiruvaDigaLAlEa nerukkiyadhum, mulai varavu thAzhthu nEttina
vyAjyathAlEa vudhaithadhum,
thiruvaDigaLAlEA iREa
nirasithadhu"
dAsan
vanamamalai padmanabhan
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