(Sri Jagannatha Dasa virachita) SRI HARIKATHAMRUTASARA / ಶ್ರೀ ಜಗನ್ನಾಥದಾಸ ವಿರಚಿತ ಶ್ರೀ ಹರಿಕಥಾಮೃತಸಾರ

(Sri Jagannatha Dasa virachita)
SRI HARIKATHAMRUTASARA /
ಶ್ರೀ ಜಗನ್ನಾಥದಾಸ ವಿರಚಿತ ಶ್ರೀ ಹರಿಕಥಾಮೃತಸಾರ

    CANTO IV – CHAPTER ON MEALS / ಸಂಧಿ 4 – ಭೋಜನ ಸಂಧಿ

    In this canto, Sri Jagannatha Dasaru explains most significant and highly influential factors connected with food.

   Effect of Meals / ಭೋಜನದ ಪರಿಣಾಮ

   77.       ವನಜಜಾಂಡದೊಳುಳ್ಳಖಿಲಚೇ-

                     ತನರು ಭುಂಜಿಪ ಚತುರವಿಧಭೋ-

                     ಜನಪದಾರ್ಥದಿ ಚತುರವಿಧ ರಸರೂಪ ತಾನಾಗಿ|

                     ಮನಕೆ ಬಂದುದನುಂಡುಣಿಸಿ ಸಂ-

                     ಹನನಕುಪಚಯ ಕರಣಕಾನಂ-

                     ದನಿಮಿಷರಿಗಾತ್ಮಪ್ರದರ್ಶನ ಸುಖವನೀವ ಹರಿ||1||

                VanajajAnDadoLuLLaKhilachE-

                tanaru Bhunjipa chaturaviDhaBhO-

                janapadArThadi chaturaviDha rasarUpa tAnAgi|

                Manake bandudanunDuNisi sam-

                Hananakupachaya karaNakAnan-

                danimiSharigAtmapradarshana suKhavaneeva Hari||1||

     SUMMARY: Lord Sri Hari is himself the form of four types of juices that are present in four types of meals or food that all the types of beings in the Brahmanda consume; Sri Hari consumes whatever he relishes, serves it to the beings, provides strength to their bodies, gives pleasure to the sensory organs and bestows the happiness of seeing him to the deities who are in charge of different food items.  

    The four types of food being consumed by different beings comprise of BhakShya or pleasant items like sweets, BhOjya, which the beings compulsorily consume, Lehya or paste and PEya or liquid that can be drunk.

    Lord Krishna tells this to Arjuna in The Gita:

    Aham VaishwAnarO BhUtvA PrANinAm dEhamAshritaha|

    PrANApAnasamAyuktaha pachAmyannam chaturviDham||Geeta 15/14||

    ಅಹಂ ವೈಶ್ವಾನರೋ ಭೂತ್ವಾ ಪ್ರಾಣಿನಾಂ ದೇಹಮಾಶ್ರಿತಃ|

   ಪ್ರಾಣಾಪಾನಸಮಾಯುಕ್ತಃ ಪಚಾಮ್ಯನ್ನಂ ಚತುರ್ವಿಧಮ್||ಗೀತಾ15/14||

    How does the food help body?/ದೇಹಕ್ಕೆ ಉಪಚಯನವಾಗುವ ಬಗೆ

     78.       ನೀಡದಂದದಲಿಪ್ಪ ಲಿಂಗಕೆ

                     ಷೋಡಶಾತ್ಮಕ ರಸವಿಭಾಗವ

                     ಮಾಡಿ ಷೋಡಶಕಲೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಉಪಚಯಗಳನು ಕೊಡುತ|

                     ಕ್ರೋಡ ಎಪ್ಪತ್ತೆರಡುಸಾವಿರ

                     ನಾಡಿಗತದೇವತೆಗಳೊಳಗಿ-

                     ರ್ದಾಡುತಾನಂದಾತ್ಮ ಚರಿಸುವ ಲೋಕದೊಳು ತಾನು ||2||

                     NeeDadaMdadalippa lingake

                ShODashAtmaka rasaviBhAgava

                mADi ShODaShakalegaLige upachayagaLanu koDuta|

                krOda yeppatteraDusAvira

                nADigatadEvategaLoLagi-

                rdAnDutAnandAtma charisuva lOkadoLu tAnu||2||

    SUMMARY: Lord Hari from his form as Varaha (VarAh AvtAr) keeps roaming about with deities who are in charge of different types of food items, wearing the form of joy or bliss; the deities occupy the seventy-two thousand pulses that exist in each and every being; for the body, which is like nest for every being, the four juices are divided into sixteen types to provide nourishment to the sixteen stains in the body.  

    The sixteen stains and seventy-two thousand pulses have been described further in the Canto on Pulse, later.

    Sri Vishnurahasya mentions about “ShODashakalA” as follows:

    IndriyANi dashaikam cha manastanmAtrakAstaThA|

    Panchaiva ShODashakalO lingadEhO hyanAdimAn||

    ಇಂದ್ರಿಯಾಣಿ ದಶೈಕಂ ಚ ಮನಸ್ತನ್ಮಾತ್ರಕಾಸ್ತಥಾ|

     ಫಂಚೈವ ಷೋಡಶಕಲೋ ಲಿಂಗದೇಹೋ ಹ್ಯನಾದಿಮಾನ್||  

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