Saturday, July 10, 2010

Narayaneeyam

After a long struggle to reach Guruvayur, Melpathur along with his friend reached his destination.  He started compose 10 chapters each day,which is the short form of  Shree Bhagavatham. Everyone respected Bhattathiri who was a grate Sanskrit scholar in those days.


Since he was affected with Reumatic paralysis, he got a seat in front of Lord to compose the Narayaneeyam.  Poonthanam composed Jnanapana, which describes Hindu philosophical ideas in a simple language. Poonthanam wanted Melpathur to correct the same since he was a scholar as he didn't had confidence in himself.
But Melpathur replied that he is not interested in Bhasha kavyam.That hurt Poonthanam, and he left with a gloomy face.

After that incident Bhattathiri couldn't compose a single line.  He left very disappointed.
In that following night had Bhattathiri could not sleep due the the pain. And subsequently happend the epidsode of repent and he went to Poonthanam to comfort and corrected his Poem, Jnapana.

Bhattathiri thereafter become more attached to his lord, and he got his lord's darshan.  Thus he described lord the way he got darshan in Narayaneeyam.  Narayaneeyam become very good success in those days.  Still people read Narayaneeyam more than Shri Bhagavatham because it is composed in simple Sanskrit Slokas.

No comments:

Post a Comment