DASAVATARAM

 SUBHASHITHANI:600

यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत |
अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ||BG4.7||
yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata
abhyutthānam adharmasya tadātmānaṁ sṛijāmyaham
Whenever there is a decline in righteousness and an increase in unrighteousness, O! Arjuna, at that time I manifest Myself on earth.

मीनाकृते कमठ कोल नृसिंह वर्णिन्
स्वामिन् परश्वथतपोधन रामचन्द्र।
शेषांशराम यदुनन्दन कल्किरूप
श्रीवेङ्कटाचलपते तव सुप्रभातम् ॥२४॥
Miina-[A]akrte Kamattha Kola Nrsimha Varnnin
Svaamin Parashv[u]-Atha-Tapodhana Raamacandra|
Shessa-Amsha-Raama Yadu-Nandana Kalki-Ruupa
Shrii-Vengkattaacala-Pate Tava Suprabhaatam ||24||Venkatesa Suprabhatam

Salutations to Sri Govinda. In this Beautiful Dawn Your Devotees are contemplating on Your Divine Incarnations –
Sri Matsa Avatara ( Form of Fish ), Sri Kurma Avatara ( Form of Tortoise ), Sri Varaha Avatara ( Form of Boar ), Sri Nrisimha Avatara ( Form of Man-Lion ) ...
Your Form O Lord of Sri Parashurama Avatara ( Wielder of Axe ), Sri Vamana Avatara ( Form of a dwarf ), Sri Ramachandra Avatara ... Sri Balarama Avatara (  Adisesha Amsam), Sri Krishna Avatara ( Son born in Yadu Dynasty ) and the form of Sri Kalki Avatara.

Sri Jayadeva and Sri Vedanta Desika have sung hymns on the dasavatara which are full of devotion and poetic beauty. Desika has one sloka for each avatara and the twelfth sloka summarises all the ten avataras. We will see that sloka with the meaning.

ईच्छा-मीन विहार-कच्छप महा-पोत्रिन् यदृच्छा-हरे
रक्षा-वामन रोष-राम करुणा-काकुत्स्थ हेला-हरिन्  |
क्रीडा-वल्लव कल्क-वाहन-दशा-कल्किन् इति प्रत्यहं
जल्पन्तः पुरुषाः पुनन्ति भुवनं पुण्यौघ पण्यापणाः ||

Oh Lord! Those who speak your name daily as the One who took the form of a fish by your own free will, incarnated as a tortoise for the purposes of having fun, took the form of a big boar, appeared as Lord nṛsimha when no one (including you) expected it, took the incarnation of vāmana just for protecting everyone (through the contact with your feet), presented yourself as the angry paraśurāma and also as rāma - the personification of kindness and mercy, had the sport with the plough in the balarāma avatāra and as the cowherd in your kṛshṇa incarnation, and will ride the white horse in your kalki incarnation, make this world pure by the store-house of puṇya that they have accumulated, and are like the store where we can get all the puṇya we need (i.e., by merely associating with them).

Summary sloka  from Gita Govinda:

वेदानुद्धरते जगन्ति वहते भूगोलमुद्बिभ्रते

दैत्यं दारयते बलिं छलयते क्षत्रक्षयं कुर्वते

पौलस्त्यं जयते हलं कलयते कारुण्यमातन्वते

म्लेच्छान्मूर्छयते दशकृतिकृते कृष्णाय तुभ्यं नमः

vedān uddharate jaganti vahate bhū-golam udbibhrate

daityaḿ dārayate baliḿ chalayate kṣatra-kṣayaḿ kurvate

paulastyaḿ jayate halaḿ kalayate kāruṇyam ātanvate

mlecchān mūrchayate daśakṛti-kṛte kṛṣṇāya tubhyaḿ namaḥ. 12

O Lord Krsna, I offer my obeisances unto You, who appear in the forms of these ten incarnations. In the form of Matsya You rescue the Vedas, and as Karma You bear the Mandara Mountain on Your back. As Varaha You lift the earth with Your tusk, and in the form of Narasimha You tear open the chest of the daitya Hiranyakasipu. In the form of Vamana You trick the daitya king Bali by asking him for only three steps of land, and then You take away the whole universe from him by expanding Your steps. As Parasurama You slay all of the wicked ksatriyas, and as Ramacandra You conquer the raksasa king Ravana. In the form of Balarama You carry a plow with which You subdue the wicked and draw toward You the River Yamuna. As Lord Buddha You show compassion toward all the living beings suffering in this world and at the end of the Kali-yuga You appear as Kalki to bewilder the avaidikas..

SRI KRISHNAYA TUBHYAM NAMAH

Ps: My salutations to the lord and all the readers on the publication of six hundredth blog- Mukunda priya