{"id":9564,"date":"2011-05-12T13:21:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T12:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=9564"},"modified":"2011-05-12T13:21:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T12:21:19","slug":"cakra-bandha-for-srila-prabhupada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=9564","title":{"rendered":"Cakra-bandha for Srila Prabhupada"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Bh.Demian<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sanskrit poetry is enriched with a great variety of metrical patterns, figures of expression, and innumerable other features. The mere combination of short and long syllables in verses that have from one to twenty six syllables per quarter makes a total of 67.108,864 possibilities. Citra-kavitva is one of the most impressive kinds of compositions, consisting in poems in the form of animals, flowers, etc. Such poetry has been common among Indian poets for at least two thousand years, and poets like Magha (7th century A.D.) became renowned for intricate arrangements in the form of sword, zigzag, wheel, etc. The rules for such compositions were laid down in several treatises on poetics, among which King Bhoja\u2019s (11th century A.D.) \u201cSarasvati-kanthabharana\u201d has a distinct place. Although not so well-known yet, several Gaudiya poets wrote works that are nothing less than the consecrated maha-kavyas of Kalidasa and others. The book called \u201cStava-mala\u201d contains Srila Rupa Gosvami\u2019s poems arranged in different shapes, such as lotus, drum, wheel, etc. in which the exquisite vocabulary, grammatical constructions, and figures of expression are breath-taking. Inspired by these, what follows is my humble attempt to write a citra-kavitva.<\/p>\n

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Some of the characteristics of this formation are as follows. The first three lines of the verse are arranged as the six spokes of the wheel, sharing the same syllable at the centre. The first and the last syllable of the first three lines are shared with the fourth line, forming the rim. The last syllable of the third line is the first and the last syllable of the fourth line. With some exceptions, a syllable with a short vowel is considered long when followed by two consonants, so here the first syllable of the three first lines should be long when read towards the centre, but short when read in the rim. <\/p>\n

Word-for-word<\/p>\n

smaryam \u2013 to be remembered; vedyam \u2013 to be known; rtam \u2013 the Truth; prapatti-satadha \u2013 hundred-fold devotional service; vaidesya-patre \u2013 unto the foreign people who became his recipient; dade \u2013 imparted; svarnanga-prabhu-campakanghri-sarano \u2013 whose shelter is the campaka like feet of the Lord\u2019s golden incarnation; dharmyan \u2013 religious principles; pradatte \u2013 imparts; ca \u2013 also; me \u2013 to me; vrtva \u2013refraining; asambhu-cakram \u2013 a multitude of inauspicious things; vyathatma-samakah \u2013 the pacifier of the afflicted souls; yah \u2013 one who; krsna-pantha \u2013 the path to Krsna; sah \u2013 he; vai \u2013 indeed; vaikunthe \u2013 in the spiritual world; smayinah \u2013 smiling; svatah \u2013 in his original constitutional position; anivrta-bhah \u2013 with unobstructed effulgence; deve \u2013 at Krsna; sah \u2013 he; me \u2013 me; patu \u2013 protect; vai \u2013 truly. <\/p>\n

Translation<\/p>\n

\u201cTaking full shelter at Lord Caitanya\u2019s feet, which are just like yellow campaka flowers due to His golden complexion, he made the foreign people recipients of his mercy by imparting to them the Supreme Absolute Truth and hundreds of ways to engage in devotional service. This Truth is to be known and remembered by all, and therefore he imparts the eternal religious principles to me also. Restraining a multitude of inauspicious characteristics common in this age, he pacifies the suffering conditioned souls, for he is indeed the personified path back to Krsna. Now situated in his original constitutional position in the spiritual world, with unobstructed effulgence he is smiling lovingly at Krsna. May that Srila Prabhupada always protect me.\u201d
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Another common feature of this construction, as exemplified by Magha in his famous cakra-bandha in the \u201cSisupala-vadha\u201d (19.120), is a hidden signature, a somewhat modest, though ingenious way to sign one\u2019s work. It should start in one of the inner circles of the wheel and be read clockwise towards the centre. Eight inner circles can be drawn from the centre, one for each syllable. Here, in the sixth syllable of the second spoke (from the centre) we read \u2018pra\u2019, and in the sixth syllable of the third spoke we read \u2018bhu\u2019, etc. Continuing in the fourth inner line, we have the following:<\/p>\n

prabhupada-padya-cakram demyan-krtam<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis poem in the form of a wheel was composed by Demian to glorify Srila Prabhupada.\u201d
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For those who appreciate poetry, this is an insignificant drop compared to the ocean of nectar written by Srila Rupa Gosvami, Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti, and so many others.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Bh.Demian<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sanskrit poetry is enriched with a great variety of metrical patterns, figures of expression, and innumerable other features. The mere combination of short and long syllables in verses that have from one to twenty six syllables per quarter makes a total of 67.108,864 possibilities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}