Gajalakshmi – Airavatam
Lakshmidevi ashtarūpālalo Gajalakshmi oka rūpam. Ashta Lakshmi Stotram-lō 4va shlokam Gajalakshmi rūpam gurinchi undi. Ashta Lakshmi Stotram-ni Vedanta vetta U.V. Srinivasa Varadachariyar rachincharu. Aayana ee stotram-ni 1970-l prārambham-lō Chennai-lō rachinchi, prachurinchaaru, mariyu 1980-lō audio cassettes dwara idi bāga prachuryaṁ pondindi.
Samudra Mathanam samayam-lō amṛtam, viṣam (kālakoṭa viṣam), mariyu padnālgu ratnālu (ratnālu) bāyṭaku vacchāyi. Vātillo konni mukhyamainavi: Kāma Dhenuvu (kōrikalu tīrche āvu), Ucchaisravas (ēdu tala-lunna telḷaṭi gurram), Lakshmi, Chandru, Airavatam (Indra-ndi ēnugu), Dhanvantari, mariyu Shāranga (Vishnu-yi vilu, Pārījāta vrikshaṁ, Surabhi lanti marikoṉni). Samudra Mathanam samayam-lō āme udbhavinchina pōṭu ēnugulu āmeku swāgatam palikinaṭlāni purāṇālu cheputunnāyi.
Gajalakshmi (ēnugulato unna Lakshmi) Ashta Lakshmi aṁśālalo oka rūpam. Ee rūpam-lō āme kamalam mēda Padmāsana bhangimālō kūrchuni untundi. Āmeku nālugu chetulu untāyi. Āmeku pai chetullo kamalālu pattukuni untundi. Kindi chetullo okati Abhaya Hastaṁ, maroka Varada Mudra tō untundi. Āmeku cuṭṭū unna ēnugulu vāṭi toṇḍalato jalālu āme pai posi sampṛkṣaṇaṁ chēstunnatlu untāyi.
Lakshmi ki gala itara aṁśamula mādirigā, ee aṁśa-lō rūpam śreyassu, adhṛṣṭaṁ, samr̥ddhi ki pratinidhi gā untundi. Andukē Lakshmi Devini Gajalakshmi gā Ashta Lakshmi rūpālalo okaṭi, sampada, adhṛṣṭaṁ, śreyassu mariyu santānōtpatti ki pratikā gā bhāvisthāru.
Ee ēnugulu akṣarālā ‘Irāvataku sambandhin̄chindi’, oka daivika ēnugu. Pavitra Hindu granthāla prakāram, Airavatam mūru tala, āru dantālu mariyu mūru toṇḍalato janminchāḍu. Atanu telḷagā untāḍu. Konni purāṇālu kuda Airavatam 10 dantālu, 5 toṇḍalu mariyu 10 dantālato janminchāḍani cheputunnāyi, idi 10 dikshālanu sūchistundi.
Atanu “Enugula rāju” mariyu Devata Indra ki pradhāna vāhanam gā panichestāḍu. Atanini ‘Abhra-mātanga’ ani kuda pilustāru, ante “Mēghāla ēnugu”; ‘Nāga-malla’ ante “Porāḍe ēnugu”; mariyu ‘Arkasōdara’ ante “Sūryuni sōdaru”.
Airavatam.. Indruni vāhanam mātraṁ kādu, varṣālu kuripinchēdi kuda!
Indruni vāhanamaina Airavatam bhārīkāyaṁ, telḷaṭi mēn̄ichāya tō merisipōtundi. Idi Sūryuni sōdaru ani, Brahmavaraṁto janminchindi. Airavatam janma rahasyam gurinchi vividha rakāla kathalu prachāram-lō unnāyi. Mātangalīla ane prācīna grantha prakāram… Brahma varantō enimidi magha enugulu, enimidi āḍa enugulu udbhavinchāyi. Mag enugulaku Airavatam pratinidhi vahiṃcēdi, āḍa enugulaki ‘Abhrām’ ane enugu nāyakatvaṁ vahiṃcindi.
‘Abhramu’ ante Airavatam enugu bhāryā Irāvati yokka mūrdhu kumāru Hindu purāṇālu lō oka vyakti. Rāmāyaṇam-lō cheppinaṭlāgā āme Kadrūvāḍu lēda Bhadramada mariyu Kaśyapu kumārṭe. Āme pavitra Irāvati nadito kuda sambandham kaligi undi, idi Veda kālam-lō ādhunika Punjab-lōni Ravi nadi perlālō okaṭi. Myanmar-lōni Irāvaddy nadi Ravi nadiki ee peru nunchi dāni perunu gurthin̄cē avakāśam undi.
Kāni Airavatam Kṣīrasāgaramathanam-lō udbhavinchindi ani vistṛta prachāram-lō undi. Kṣīrasāgaramathanam-lō mūru atīta lakṣaṇa-lō unna jīvulu udbhavinchāyi: kāmin̄che kōrikalu tīrche Kāma Dhenuvu, ēdu tala Ucchaisravaṁ gurram, telḷaṭi mēn̄ichāya tō merisipōtundi Airavatam.
Asalu Airavatam ante samudraṁ nunchi udbhavinchindi ane oka vyutpatti artham undi. Airavatam āvirbhāvaṁ oka etthaiyē, Indruni vāhanam gā dani bhōgaṁ maroka etthaiyē. Swarganlōni praveśin̄ce dvārām lō untundi. Varṣāni kuripin̄caḍaṁ, tūrtu dikkuku adhipatyaṁ, rākṣasulapai cēyi sādhincaḍaṁ anevi Indra ki mukhyamainā bādhya-lu. Ee mūru bādhyalōnū Airavatāni pramukha pātraṁ. Adela ante… bhūmi antarbhāgamlōni nīṭi Airavatam tana toṇḍa tō ākāśāniki egajim̄cē, danini Indra tirigi varṣaṁ gā kuripin̄cāḍu.
Enimidi dikkulakī Ashta Dikpālulu nāyakatvaṁ vahiṃce viṣayam telisindi. Ee dikpālulu enimidi enugulu mēda nilabadi untāru. Vītillo Airavatam okaṭi. Antēkādu, migata enugulaki kuda idi dikśā nirdēśam chestundi.
Ika, Indruḍu chese yuddhalōnū Airavatāni pramukha pātra mātraṁ. Vr̥ttāsura vadha samayam-lō Airavatam ē chākachakyaṅgā Indruni raṇaraṅgamlō naḍipinchindi.
Airavatam prastāvaṇa kēvāḷa Hindu matam mātraṁ kādu, Jaina, Bauddha matam-lō kuda vinipistundi. Bauddhamatam adhikanga unna Thailand, Laos lanti deśālu-lō kuda Airavatamni ārādhistāru. Akkadī prācīna rājyāla patākalō mūru toṇḍalato unna Airavatam kanipistundi. Alaṭi mūru toṇḍāla Airavatapu vigraham jīvitamlō adhṛṣṭaṁ tisukuvāstundi ani nammutāru.
Mana prācīna devālayalō kuda Airavatam citrālu kanipistāyi. Tamil Nādu-lō Airavatam pūjincaṇa Śivuni ‘Airavateshwarudu’ ani perutō oka ālayam kuda undi. Alaṭi telḷani enugulu Lakshmideviki abhishekin̄caḍaṁ vallē Gajalakshmi gā prasiddhi pondindi.
