Yadhavabhyudhaya-chapter4(cont.d)
BalaKrishna
Next Desika presents the picture of
crawling Krishna. When
krishna crawled on the floor the dust covered his body all over. Desika says
that the earth goddess tried
to embraced him under the pretext of covering his body with dust. 'prAyO
dharithree parishasvajE tham sApathrapA
sAndhrarajacchalEna.'
The joy of Nanda knew no bounds on
seeing the face of Krishna which was nirvyAja mandhasmitha dharsaneeyam,
delightful to behold with his spontaneous smile. When he lisped and
pronounced the name of his mother partly he was acclaimed by all.Everyone was
pleased with his attempt to speak which was fascinating, says Desika, because the
Lord who created all the worlds and gave them name and form, is here praised by the people in Gokula
for uttering his mother's name partially. The upanishad says that after creating
the world of beings Brahman willed to enter them with their soul to give them
name and form.'anEna jeevEna AthmanA anupravisya nAmrupE vyAkaravANi.'
(Chan.6-3-2)
Then Krishna started to speak with clarity and his
pronunciation had the scent of veda, says Desika.'
varNasvarAdhivyavasAyabhoomnA sikshAvidhAm sikshaNam agryam Aseeth.' It
was as though he was teaching the gopis who tried to make him speak through his
pronunciation of letters and the intonation etc. which resembled that of the
vedas.
Next we have the delightful picture of
Krishna trying to stand. 'thameeshadhutthAya nileenabhArAth samprekshya
dhanthAnkurachAruhAsam;sanAthaneem dhrshtim ananya dhrshtih sAnandham AlOkatha
nandha pathnee.'He tries to stand a little but keeps falling off and
he smiles sweetly showing his budding teeth.Yasodha ho had no eyes for any thing
else, was looking at him, who is the eye of all, with
joy.
Here it would be interesting to see how Periazvar enjoys
Krishna having his first teeth.' kOla narumpavaLa senthuvar vAyinidai
komaLa veLLimuLai pOl sila pallilaga,' in his mouth, red like coral, there are a few teeth showing like
tender shoots of silver.
Yasodha teaches
Krishna to walk and Desika enjoys the scene thus: Yasodha
took hold of his hands and made him walk and he keeps falling now and then
pretending that he could not walk more than few steps so that his mother will
pick him up and tries again. Who is he! The one who measured the threeworlds
with three steps and now manifest as a child in order to protect the
world.'padhaisthribhihkrAntha jagaththrayam tham bhavyAsA bhAvina
bAlabhAvam.'
Soon Krishna was walking all around marking the earth with his
footprints as though to put his seal on earth to drive away the wicked.Next
comes the scene where Krishna dances to the tune of the gopis.
May god bless you,
Dr.
Saroja Ramanujam, M.A., Ph.D, Siromani in sanskrit.
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