SrI:
Dear Sri Venkat : Here re some answers to
your queries :
(1) Pavazha Malli is also known as PaarijAtham
or coral Malli . It belongs to the botanical family
of Nyctanthaceal .
Its actua name is Nyctanthes-arbor-
Tristis.
It shares the common suffix of Malli such as
GuNdu Malli ( Mathurai ) ,
Mara Malli , Nithya Malli , Sara Malli etc . These
have fantastic , lingering
fragrance .
Pavazha or PavaLa Malli is anight blooming
flower and is profusely
flowerign in the Months of September thru
December . I tcan be grown in pots
in shady section of a balcony .It takes 12 to 18
months to flower
from seed . It is preferrable to grow outddors
as a tree ( ~4 Meters in height ) .
It is considered to be a heavenly tree brought to
earth by KrishNa from
IndhrA's garden with the help of SathyabhAmA . At
dhwArakai , both RukmiNi and
SathyabhAma wanted the tree to be planted in their
gardens . The clever KrishNa
plante the tre in SathyabhAmA's garden but the wind
blew he flowers over the fence
to RukmiNi's garden . This flower is
therfore very dear to the Lord because
of the diplomatic solution tha the concieved to
please both His devis.
It has a divine fragrance . It is
therfore called PaariAtham Flower tree .
If the planrt is grown indoors in pots , they
should not be overwatered.
The flowers are normally offered to KrishNa TuLasi
Plant . By the way ,
KrishNa TuLasi and VishNu TuLasi ( paler colored
leaves) are both used in
constructing garlands and archana for the Lord
.
The milky sap from the tree is poisonous and
one has to
exercise caution .The flowers usually fall on
ground in
the early morning right under the tree . Garlands
are made
by stringing a thread thru the hollow coral colored
stem of
the Flower .
2) Pavazha Malli is not the same as Vanamaalai or
Vyjayanthy .
One who wears Vana Maalai ( garland made of
wild flowers of '
the forest is Vanamaalee)
.
3) The fruits dear to Lord KrishNa
are anything offered with affection .
Naaval Pazham ( Rose apple / Jambhu) is very dear
to Him . Navaneetham
is very dear to Him among dairy products
.
4) Sri VishNu sahasra Naamam is always an all
expansive sthOthram
that applies to all avathArams and VyUhams
of Sriman narayana . Swamy
Desikan's Gopala Vimsathy is very dear to Him . Sri
Gopala Mantram is
enshrined in this sthothram , which you can
read with meanings at :
e-Book 22 in the above series covers the Gopala
Vimsathy .
5) Sudarsana Narasimha Sambhandham :Sudarsanar is
the sanklapa
Sakthi of Sri Nrusimha-Narayanan. Front is seated
Narasimhan & the back of
the six cornered yantram houses Sudarsanar
in walking (standing ) posture .
Sudarsanar will not sit before His Lord ,
Narasimhan . The worship of such
joint Murthys are prescribed by PaancharAthra and
VakhAnasa Aagamams .
Padma Samhithai describes the 16 kinds of Aayudhams
in Sudarsanan's
16 hands. ShOdasAyudha SthOthram of Swamy Desikan
covers it in
the Sundara Simham e-book series refereed to above
.Each of the six corners
of the Shat KoNa Yanthram has special significance
and has chakrAs named
after each of them ( Jwaala chakram ,
Su chakram etc) .
KrishNAya Thubhyam Nama:
V.Sadagopan
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