Abhanga 3093
Durvāse nirōpa āṇilā ye rīti — Durvāsa brought the nirōpa in this rīti; maga vāḍhaletī Nārāyaṇā — then Nārāyaṇa vāḍhaletī (grew, expanded).
The verse
दुर्वासें निरोप आणिला ये रिती । मग वाढलेती नारायणा ॥१॥
ठेविलें चरण बळिचिये द्वारीं । शीर अंगावरी लांबविलें ॥ध्रु.॥
पाडियेलें द्वार द्वारावतियेसी । वरि हृषीकेशी निघालेती ॥२॥
तेथूनियां नाम पडिलें द्वारका । वैकुंठनायका तुका म्हणे ॥३॥
Literal translation
Durvāse nirōpa āṇilā ye rīti — Durvāsa brought the nirōpa in this rīti; maga vāḍhaletī Nārāyaṇā — then Nārāyaṇa vāḍhaletī (grew, expanded). Ṭhevile charaṇa Baḷichiye dvārīm — placed (his) feet at Bali's door; śīra angāvarī lāmbavile — stretched (his) head far over (the body) above. Pāḍiyele dvāra dvāravatiyesī — broke the dvāra of Dvāravatī; vari Hrṣīkeśī nighāletī — Hrṣīkeśī came out (from there). Tethūnīyām nāma paḍile Dvārakā — from there, the Name Dvārakā fell; Vaikuṇṭha-nāyakā Tukā mhaṇe — on Vaikuṇṭha-nāyaka, Tukā says.
What it means
★★ The 6th-of-7 Durvāsa-Bali narrative text — contains a precious etymology of DVĀRAKĀ.
The resolution-narrative: Durvāsa brought the nirōpa (Lord-still-couldn't-leave-by-Bali's-refusal); Nārāyaṇa-expanded (vāḍhaletī); his feet-stayed at-Bali's-door (he kept-his-promise); but-his-body-grew-up-and-out (head-stretched far); broke-the-dvāra (opening) of Dvāravatī (the-supreme-city); Hrṣīkeśī-emerged-out-of-this-opening.
★★ Etymology: Dvārakā (the-city) is-named-from-this-dvāra (door, opening) by-which-Hari-broke-out while-keeping-feet-at-Bali's-door.
This is one-of-the-precious-place-name-etymologies in-the-Tukārām-corpus. Compare-3094 which-gives-the-etymology-of-Murārī.
For someone today
Tukārām's Dvārakā-etymology. Durvāsa brought the permission in this manner; then Nārāyaṇa expanded. (He) placed (his) feet at Bali's door — stretched (his) head far over. (He) broke the opening of Dvāravatī; from there Hrṣīkeśī came out. ★ From there the Name Dvārakā fell on Vaikuṇṭha-nāyaka. The verse permits the bhakti-etymology of Dvārakā as the-city-of-the-opening-Hari-broke-while-keeping-feet-at-Bali's-door.
Where this applies
- ★★ MAJOR cultural-text — etymology of DVĀRAKĀ
- 6th-of-7 Durvāsa-Bali narrative cluster
- Place-name-etymology genre in Tukārām corpus
- Companion to 3094 (Murārī-etymology)