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Chaturbhuja Krishna?
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Subject: Chaturbhuja Krishna?
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From: dchakrav@netserv.unmc.edu (Dhruba Chakravarti)
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Date: 17 Oct 1995 01:15:09 GMT
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Approved: srh <srh@rbhatnagar>
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Article: 404 of soc.religion.hindu
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Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu
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Organization: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
Dear Friends:
I believe that in the Visvarupa-darshana-yoga of the Srimad Bhagavad
Gita, Arjuna asked Sri Krishna to show him a four-armed form, but Sri
Krishna showed his two-armed form. This is evident from the following
verses:
Kiritinam gadinam chakrahastamicchAmi tvam drastumaham tathoiva.
Tenoiva rupena chaturbhujena, sahasrabAho bhava visvamurte. 11.46
Arjuna said-
(O SahasrabAhu! I would like to see you as before, wearing kirit and
holding gada and chakra. Show me your four-armed form.)
Sanjaya narrated-
Ityarjunam vAsudevastathoktA, svakam rupam darshayamasa bhuyah.
AshvAsayamAsa cha bhitamenam, bhutva punah soumyavapurmahAtmA. 11.50
Sanjaya said-
(Having said thus to Ajuna, VAsudeva showed him is own form (svakam
rupam), and comforted him by getting back to his pleasant form.)
I note here that Sanjaya did not say four-armed. Arjuna said next:
Arjuna said-
Dristvedam mAnusham rupam tava soumyam JanArdana.
IdAnimasmi samvrittah sachetah prakritim gatah. 11.51
(O pleasant JanArdana! Seeing you in human form I am once again collected
and at my usual self.)
A four armed human form does not seem appropriate, and as the son of
Vasudeva, Sri Krishna looked like just another human. Clearly, both Sanjaya
and Arjuna report a two-armed form of Krishna here.
I wonder why many narrators insisted on a Chaturbhuja Krishna!
Regards,
Dhruba.
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