Temples and shoes
Benjamin Preciado Solis
bprecia at colmex.mx
Thu Apr 11 20:18:53 UTC 1996
On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Romer Cornejo wrote:
> Dear list members
> In reference to the verses kindly given by my dear friend Prof.
> Aklujkar, Prof. Deshpande, and others, regarding temples and
> shoes, it so happened that in a very recent trip to India to
> receive the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit Literature on my
> latest kavya S-rii Raadhaapancas-atii, I had the opportunity of
> visiting Govardhan. There I found the following verses in an old
> inscription in an abandoned temple. To my surprise these verses
> refer to the very same issue treated by our learned coleages.
> These verses are very simple but in the penultimate one there
> appears a query that I am unable to answer. If there is someone
> out there who can explain the answer to me I shall be most thakful.
>
> upaanahor mano dhRtvaa ye yaanti harimandiram
> niSphalam dars-anam~ teSaam~ gajasnaanam~ yathaa vRthaa. 1
>
> sopaanatkaan vadantyetaan upaanatsu dhRtaatmanah
> niSphalam~ dars-anam~ teSaam~ haanis-copaanahoh kvacit. 2
>
> sarastiire baalukaayaam~ nihitaaNDaa hi kacchapii
> sarovaariNi tiSThantii dhyaayati dhyaanabindunaa. 3
>
> yathaaNDaanaam~ karotyeva kuurmii dhyaanena poSaNam~
> tathaa sam~cintayet kRSNam~ baistiSTham~s-ca mandiraat. 4
>
> mandire gamanam~ kim~ vaa mandire}gamanam~ tathaa
> saarthakam~ tu bhavennuunam~ yasyopaanatsu no manah. 5
>
> devaalaye}pi sam~gamya cittam~ yeSaamupaanahoh
> Daaridryam~ rogabaahulyam~ teSaam~ sam~jaayate dhruvam. 6
>
> kvacit sam~padyate laabho nuutanopaanahorapi
> dRSTe sam~moSaNe teSaam upaanadbhih prataaDanam. 7
>
> yeSaam~ sam~moSaNe cittam~ kim~ tadaa dars-ane dhiyaa
> govardhane kRtam~ paapam~ vajralepo bhaviSyati. 8
>
> aalokyate yadi harir manasaa, tatah kim~
> devaalayeSu gamanena, nirarthakam~ tat
> naalokyate yadi harir manasaa, tatah kim~
> devaalayeSu gamanena, nirarthakam~ tat. 9
>
> devaalayaad bahirathasti manah kadaacit
> svopaanahostadiha kim~ haridars-anena
> sam~tyajya sarvaviSayaan haripaadamuulam~
> sam~dRSyate yadi tadaiva sudars-anam~ syaat. 10
>
> govardhanagiricchatradaNDataam upayaati kah
> gRdhraa ityuttaram~ yasya tadevaasyottaram~ bhavet. 11
>
> antimasyaasya padyasya tattvam~ jaananti ye budhaah
> dars-anam~ saarthakam~ teSaam~ teSaam~ vyaakaraNam~ dRDham. 12
>
> By the way the verse first quoted by Narayan S. Raja, found in
> Srirangam, seems to me to be an alteration of an original
> appearing in Skanda PuraaNa as follows
>
> aakaas-aat patitam~ toyam~ yathaa gacchati saagaram
> sarvadevanamaskaarah kes-avam~ pratigacchati.
>
> If my esteemed friend Prof. Richard Solomon could not find the
> verses in the Epigraphia Idica, surely the ones discovered by me
> may also not be there.
> I write this from Prof. Preciado^s e/mail address. Any answer is
> welcome in this address.
>
> Rasik Vihari Joshi.
>
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