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Sunday, November 9, 2014

Rasam

"Rasam" (flavour, essence, sentiment or mood) are given below:

  1. Raudram - Fierce, terrible, wrathful or awesome aspect or mood.
    1. The Varaha Incarnation, Dasakam 12, 13
    2. The Narasimha Incarnation, Dasakam 25
  2. Sringaram - Love, amorousness, eroticism
    1. The Mohini Episode, Dasakam 29
    2. Rasakrida (build up to the Rasaleela and the Rasaleela),  Dasakams 65 to 69
  3. Veeram - Heroism, Valour, Prowess
    1. Slaying of Kumbhakarna and Ravana, Dasakam 35
    2. Parasurama's decimation of Kshatriyas, Dasakam 36
    3. Slaying of Kamsa and his henchmen, Dasakam 75
    4. Slaying of Narakasura, Dasakam 81
    5. Conquest of Bana (and fight with Siva and his Bhoota hordes), Dasakam 82
    6. Slaying of Shishupala, Dasakam 85
    7. Slaying of Salwa and Dantavaktra, Dasakam 86
    8. Krishna's rushing at Bheeshma with the Sudarshana Chakra in hand, as if enraged, during the Mahabharata war, Dasakam 86
    9. also, the Lord entering the womb of Uttara (assuming the size of a big toe), in order to protect the embryo from the Brahmashirsha missile released by Ashvatthama to exterminate the Pandava clan, Dasakam 86.
  4. Hasyam - Mirth, amusement, jest, derision, ridicule
    1. Duryodhana's perplexity and confusion between firm floor and water, while traversing the audience hall full of illusions, built by Maya for the Pandavas, and the derisive laughter of Draupadi and Bheema at Duryodhana's discomfiture, Dasakam 85
    2. The account of Lord Siva taking to his heels to escape from Vrikasura who was pursuing him to test the efficacy of the boon granted to him by Siva, and the derisive words spoken by the Lord (in the guise of a clever Brahmachari), while accosting Vrikasura and bringing about the latter's (self-)destruction, Dasakam 89
  5. Karuna - Compassion, pathos, tenderness
    1. Krishna's departure from Brindavan for Mathura, leaving the Gopis forlorn, Dasakam 73
    2. Uddhava's errand to Gokulam to console the Gopis, Dasakam 76
    3. The wailing of the brahmin over the repeated loss of his sons immediately after birth, in the Santanagopalan episode, Dasakam 88.
  6. Adbhutam - Wonder, astonishment, miraculousness
    1. The Lord's growth from the form of a dwarf to His gigantic Cosmic form encompassing all the worlds with two steps of His feet, in the Vamana incarnation, Dasakam 31
  7. Bhayam - Fear, alarm, fright, terror
    1. Kamsa's panic reaction to the divine voice ("asariri") foretelling his death at the hands of Devaki's eighth son, and his manifold acts seeking to avert his doom, enventually proving futile and ending in his death, Dasakam 37 onwards up to Dasakam 75.

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