SRI MADHWAVIJAYA - CHATURTHAHA SARGAHA SHLOKAS 41 TO 43

(In these stanzas, the arrival of Ganga into Madhwasarovar and victory of Sri Poornaprajna over several established scholars. Please read, comment and share. SDN)  

    

(Lord Anantasana informs about arrival of Ganga)

ItastruteeyE divasE dyunimnagA twadarThamAsmAkataTAkamAvrajEt|

AtO na yAyA iti am tadA(a)vadat pravishya kanchitkaruNAkarO Harihi||41||

SUMMARY: Then, embodiment of empathy Lord Hari entered the body of a stranger there and said “There is no need for you to depart because on the third day from today, divine river Ganga will arrive here into our pond.”

Scholars hail this stanza as a demonstration of the quick and compassionate way in which Lord Hari responds to the prayers offered to him by ardent devotees.  

(Ganga arrives)

TadAjnayOpAgatajAhnaveejalE janO(a)tra sasnau saha pUrNabudDhinA|

Tataha param dwAdashavatsarAntarE sadA(aa)vrajet sA tadanugrahAnkinee||42||

SUMMARY: Sri Pornaprajna and other people took bath in the Ganga waters since he came there as ordered by the Lord. Subsequently, as a token of the special grace that the Lord had touched Sri Poornapraja then, Goddess Bhageerathi started coming into that pond once in every twelve years, without any failure.

The pond, which was till then popular as Ananta Sarovar, came to be known as Sri Madhwa Sarovar from that day. Some elderly people are there who claim to have seen Ganga arriving and falling into Madhwa Sarovar as per the schedule.

The fact that Ganga flows into Madhwasarovar once in every twelve years has been explained by Chalari Acharya as: BhAgeerathyA atra dwAdashavatsarE Agamanam maDhwE BhagavatkrupAnugrahasUchakamiti BhAvaha|

Since Ganga descended from heaven to earth due to the penance done by Bhageeratha, the name of the river is Bhaageerathi.

It should also be noted that Sri Madhwa Sarovar is as sacred as Ganga River.

GatE dinAnAm dashakE samAsakE varAshramam prApya sapatralambanam|

JigAya jaitrAn bahutarkakarkashAn sa VAsudEvAhwayapanDitAdikAn||43||

SUMMARY: Within a month and ten days after accepting sainthood, Sri Poornaprajna defeated several scholars such as Vasudeva Pandit and others, whose voice had turned hoarse due to continuous debate and discourse they had indulged in in several places and had won them by employing a variety of trincks and pranks. Sri Poornaprajna had obtained from all of them an affidavit of conceding the event.

Vasudeva Pandit, an outstanding and most popular scholar of Vaisheeshika school, had come to Udupi along with a large number of his disciples and followers with the sole intention of winning over Sri Poornaprajna. He had also put forth a condition that the vanquished should sign a victory declaration in the name of the victor and hand it over to the winner.

It is mentioned in Sri Bhavaprakashike:

Tridinam ya upanyAsam vyaDhAdvidwAn nirantaram|

VaishEShikAgryO vijitO VAsudEvAhwayO (a)munA||

It may be discerned that like Paundraka Vasudeva suffered the defeat for instigating Lord Sri Vasudeva, Vasudeva Pandit too was defeated by Sri Poornaprajna, an ardent devotee of Lord Vasudeva.