[Advaita-l] Aparna Name of Parvati

[sriram]

Dear Sri V.Subramanian
In Lalitha Sahasranamam the 754th namavali is Aparnayai nama:Apart from the 
meanings that She made tapasya without eating even a dried  leaf-parna is 
dried leaf-as in parna sala for a hut like dwelling,and She does not owe any 
debt as you had said,Sri Paramacharyal had  commented in His own 
beautifulway:Shiva is called Sthanu.That is He is still,unshakable and 
almost like a stump of a tree.Vruksha iva Sthabdha:says Maha Narayana 
Upanishad.Parvathi is like a leaf less -Aparna-creeper around Him.This I 
found in Sri  Lalitha Sahasranama Bhashyam.R.Krishnamoorthy.
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> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Venkata sriram P
> <venkatasriramp at yahoo.in>wrote:
>
>> Namaste,
>> Apart from the explanation what you have mentioned, couple of
>> other explanations were suggested by Shri Bhaskararaya and Shri 
>> Kalyananda
>> Bharati Mantacharya.
>> 1.  apagataM ruNaM yasyAssA taduktaM asmAbhiH dEvIstavE
>> "ruNamiSTamadattvaivatvannAma japatO mama, shivE kathaM aparNEti
>> rUDirbhArAya na tE".
>> Here, parNa implies riNa (debt). So, a-parNa implies in whom there are no
>> debts. Since, dEvi doesn't have any debts with Her, she also removes 
>> those
>> in Her upAsakAsby removing riNa-trayAs ie., 3 forms of debts (dEva, pitru 
>> &
>> rishi).
>>
>
> Thanks Sriram ji for the quotes.  I have a question here.  Is it that
> 'parNa' imples RNa?  I would parse the samAsa as:apa RNA, apagatam rNam
> yasyAH sA aparNA:  One from whom the RNa has departed.  In other words She
> has no RNa to discharge/fulfill.  Maybe someone can comment on this.
>
> Regards
> subrahmanian.v
>
>
>
>> 2. parNa also means downfall or chyuti. So, a-parNa implies that state in
>> whom there isno downfall (ref: achyutaH in viSNu saha.).
>> 3. "a" kAra is brahmavAchaka and parNa implies vAhana. So, a-parNa
>> implies brahmavAhana.  In order words, upAdhi of brahma.
>> Hope it is clear now.
>> regs,sriram
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