SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam - Slokam 84 - tantu-vardhanah.
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• January 21, 2003
SrI vishNu sahasra nAmam - Slokam 84 - tantu-vardhanah. 791. tantu-vardhanah – a) He Who increases the meshes. b) He Who augments the expansion of Himself into this world, by protecting it. c) He Who withdraws this world into Himself after creating it. d) He Who expanded the vasudva family through pradyumna and others. The word vardhanah is derived from the root vRdh – vRddhau – to grow. So this nAma can be viewed as an extension of the previous nAma – One who increases the meshes in the net, or One Who continues to maintain or sustain the growth or vistAra of this universe. a) SrI BhaTTar gives the vyAkhyAnam – evam papa rUcibhih amsubhiriva samsAra-tantum santanoti iti tantu-vardhanah – "Thus, by aggravating the taste for sin in these people (who deserve to be punished), He strengthens the snare of samsAra as if by strong fibers." SrI BhaTTar quotes from the following sources in support: tAn aham dvishatah krUrAn samsAreshu narAdhamAn | kshipAmyajastram aSubhAn AsurIshveva yonishu || (gItA 16.19) "Those haters, cruel, the vilest and the most inauspicious of mankind, I hurl forever into the cycles of births and deaths, into the wombs of demons". trayI-mArga samutsargam mAyAmohena te'surAh | kAritAs-tanmayA hyAsan tathA'nye tat-pracoditAh || tairapyanye'pare taiSca tairapyanye pare ca te | (VP 3.18.32) "The foes of God being thus induced to apostatize from the religion of the veda-s by the enchanting power of vishNu, became in their turn teachers of the same heresies, and perverted others; and these, again, communicating their principles to others, by whom they were still further disseminated, the veda-s were in a short time deserted by the daitya race". This is how bhagavAn "increased the meshes" – tantu-vardhanah. b) SrI Sa'nkara's interpretation is that the nAma signifies that He augments the web of this world, by protecting the world that He expanded from Himself - tameva tantum vardhayati iti. c) Alternatively, SrI Sa'nkara gives another interpretation – He Who withdraws the world (at the time of pralaya) – vardhayati – chedayati – cuts down. SrI Sa'nkara vyAkhyAnam is chedayati iti vA tantu-vardhanah. d) SrI ananta kRshNa SAstry continues on his idea d) in the previous nAma, and interprets the nAma tantu-vardhanah as referring to His extending the progeny of the vasudeva family through pradyumna and others. -dAsan kRshNamAcAryan -------------------------------------------------------------- - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list@yahoogroups.com Group Home: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bhakti-list Archives: http://ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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