Text 21] The Killing of the Demon Patana 19
TEXT 21
TAIT TS ATRIA 12211
gopyah samsprsta-salila
arigesu karayoh prthak
nyasyatmany atha bdlasya
bija-nydsam akurvata
gopyah—the gopis; sarsprsta-salilah —touching a cup of water and
drinking; arigesu—on their bodies; karayoh—on their two hands;
prthak—separately; nyasya—after placing the letters of the mantra;
Gtmani—on their own; atha—then; bdlasya—of the child; bija-
nydsam—the process of mantra-nydsa; akurvata—executed.
TRANSLATION
The gopis first executed the process of aécamana, drinking a sip
of water from the right hand. They purified their bodies and
hands with the nyasa-mantra and then applied the same mantra
upon the body of the child.
PURPORT
Nydsa-mantra includes dcamana, or first drinking a sip of water kept
in the right hand. There are different visnu-mantras to purify the body.
The gopis, and in fact any householders, knew the process for being
purified by chanting Vedic hymns. The gopis executed this process first
to purify themselves and then to purify the child Krsna. One executes
the process of ariga-nydsa and kara-nydsa simply by drinking a little sip
of water and chanting the mantra. The mantra is preceded with the first
letter of the name, followed by anusvdra and the word namah: am namo
jas tavanghri avyat, marh mano manim4arms tava jaénuni avyat, and so
on. By losing Indian culture, Indian householders have forgotten how to
execute the ariga-nydsa and are simply busy in sense gratification, with-
out any advanced knowledge of human civilization.
