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You kicked the demon disguised as a hurtling juggernaut to his death.That was not what could be considered proper for Your age.So You should not take it that way. Then,Yow even more daring act of hurling %e demon fat came in ie garb of a calf at another who lay hidden in a wood-apple tree, killing fern bo1 at once, is like trying to mde a beacon light under the bushel.

Sri Bhutat Azhwar takes the thought of the previous pasuram a step further, and reminisces on the two episodes of the Lord's incarnation as Sri Krishna. He recounts how as a small toddler, Krishna kicked the demon Sakata'sura', cartwheeling to his death, belying His age and size. So Azhwar implores the Lord not to look upon this as in

 

 

order — cqp& &              . or as part of His normal ownership guarding function, (Jagad-rakshanam). Azhwar’s plea stems out of his natural human feeling of concern. Even more daring than this act was the ploy Krishna adopted at a later date but still as very much of a fledgling kid, to eliminate the twin cunning demons, Vatsa'sura who mixed in Krishna's cattle herd as an ostensibly innocent calf,and Kapitha'sura who took the form of a wood-apple. Taking the calf by its feet, Krishna hurled it up at the tree killing both the demons instantly. What if both of them had fallen on Krishna. The Azhwar expresses his amazement at this daring act, and poses the same question to the Lord as to how.

 

He could consider this as just another routine aspect of His role of jagad-rakshanam’, when all this daring was fraught with such potential danger to His 'safety'- cqp&6i & JnW m.

 

Sri Thirumangai Azhwar also expresses a similar thought on the unequalness of the 'act' and the 'actor', in referring to the earlier Sakata'sura' episode in his line'  Jg  y............................................................................................. ten

 

', ( - J,10-7-9 ). ' Barely seven years old this diminutive boy on Whose bosom Mother Lakshmi resides, kicked with His sacred Foot the cart hurtling like a mountain'. Quite appropriately, Sri Andal sings benediction to the Lord recalling both these events in her lines from Thiruppa'vai.

 

 

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