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SrI cinmayAnanda comments that He is tIrtha-karah because He is the most
ancient Teacher of vidyA-s or tIrtha-s.
c) SrI kRshNa datta bhAradvAj uses the meaning "hand" for the word karah,
and gives the interpretation that He is called tIrtha-karah because He has
hands whose mere touch alone can purify anyone or anything - tIrthah tArakah
karo yasya iti tIrtha-karah. He gives support from SrImad bhAgavatam where
we find that the mere touch of bhagavAn was able to lift gajendra from his
a~jnAnam, to which he had been subjected through a previous curse (SApam)
from agastya muni. .
gajendro bhagavad-sparSAt vimuktah aj~nAna bandhanAt |
prApto bhagavato rUpam pItavAsAS-caturbhujah ||
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(bhAga. 8. 4. 6)
"By the touch of bhagavAn the elephant-king was relieved from the bondage of
a~jnAnam, and attained sArUpyam with bhagavAn, wearing the yellow silk
garment and endowed with four hands".
d) SrI satyadevo vAsishTha comments that the nAma signifies that He is the
One who makes the Sun and all the other planets move around (tIrtham is used
in the sense of crossing over, and karah in the sense of making this possible
for the graha-s).
nAma 697. vsureta> vasu vasu-retAh
vasu retAh
a) The Source of Lustre.
b) He Who shines like gold in the context of creation.
c) He Who is the cause or origin of the universe.
vasu-retase namah.
Starting from this nAma, up to nAma 786, SrI BhaTTar bases his
interpretations on the kRshNa incarnation of bhagavAn.
SrI v. v. rAmAnujan has grouped the nAma-s up to 848 under the major title
"dushTa nigraha SishTa paripAlanam - the destruction of dushTa-s and the