dEvabhaashalO maroka 'non-prosaic' religious piece!

Rao Veluri (rveluri@smtpgate.anl.gov)
Fri, 11 Jul 97 17:49:00 CST 

     
     Dear Comrades:
     
     Here is one more from the dEva bhaasha, an embalmed beauty!
     It is gorgeous and absolutely 'non-prosaic.' It is composed
     in the chandas of my obsession as implied by my 'dearest
     detractors,' and as an icing on the cake, it has as much 
     religion in it as you can digest!
     
     Hope my sins are getting abated and washed off!
     
     This poem has been attributed to a poet by name chaNDaka.
     by kshEmEndra. Date unknown!
     
     
     "kRshNEnaamba gatEnarantumadhunaa mRdbhakshitaa swEcchayaa
     satyam kRshNa ka Evam aaha musalee mithyaambha pasyaananam
     vyaadEheeti vikaasitEtha vadanE dRishTvaa samastam jagat
     maataa yasya jagaama vismayapadam paayat sva@h kESava@h."
     
     This is again about the child-god kRshNa. He was growing up
     with the cowherders along with balaraama in the house of yaSoda!
     And he was as impetuous, and uncaring(?) and proud as any
     small child could be!
     
     Here we go with my transcreation in English. Put up with it!
     
     Krishna was outside playin' 
     In dirt.
     Balarama comes in to complain,
     "Mother, Krishna ate dirt."
     Reproaches, mother Yasoda;
     "Is it true?"
     
     Krishna, the disdainful 
     child counters emphatically:
     "No way! Who said it?"
     
     "Your brother Balarama," replies mom.
     
     "No! Not at all true!" protests Krishna.
     
     "Look at my face,
     And open your mouth!!" insists Yasoda.
     
     And, His mouth He opens
     She stands shocked speechless,
     Inside His mouth
     She finds the entire Universe. 
     
     May Lord Krishna protect you!
     
     I recall bits and pieces of a sweet telugu song from a golden-oldie
     movie(don't remember the name!), mellifluously rendered by Ghantasala!
     
     It goes something like this:
     
     "ammaa! tammuDu mannu tinEnu, cooDamma ani raamanna telupagaa
     annaa ani cevinulimi yaSOda, yEdannaa nee nOru coopumanagaa
     coopitivaTa nee nOTanu baapurE! padunaalgu bhuvana bhaanDammulun..
     aa roopamu ganina yaSoda ku ..... etc." 
     
     
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     velcEru naaraayaNa raavu gaaroo! Did I wake you up? With ammaa
     mannu tinEnu.....
     
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     Ain't this funny? The post I had earlier with the subject head, 
     'pRshThataadanaa ddantabhanga@h Logic,' on July 1, 1997 did start
      off, 'raamO naama babhoovaa...' and now this has to begin with, 
     'kRshNEnaamba.....' If you suspect that this has got some remote 
     (again, applying the same pRshThataadanaa ddantabhanga@h logic!)
     connection with raama-kRshNa; by George! You got it right!
     
     If curious, go back to the telusA archives! 
     
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     Apologies! Didn't want to diffuse the thunder and lightning from 
     the postmortem appraisals and reprisals(?)of the LA-TANA conference!
     
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     Best Regards.
     
     V R "the never poetic and the ever prosaic" Veluri