Yadhavabhyudhaya-balakrishna

10-27-2006, 01:53 PM

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.