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श्रीमदानंदतीर्थभगवत्पादाचार्यविरचिते श्रीमन्महाभारततात्पर्यनिर्णये सप्तमोऽध्यायः

महाभारततात्पर्यनिर्णय मध्वाचार्य द्वारा रचित एक टीका ग्रन्थ है। 

इसमें रामायण, महाभारत और वेदव्यास के जन्म आदि की समीक्षा 

की गयी है। यह ग्रन्थ महाभारत को एक कथा के रूप में न देखकर 
इसे 'निर्णायक ग्रन्थ' की संज्ञा देता है। इस ग्रन्थ में ५००० श्लोक 

तथा ३२ अध्याय हैं। कुछ अध्याओं में रामायण की कथाएं हैं। यह

सुन्दरकांडम्  ७ वें अध्याय में है। 

मध्वाचार्य, माधवाचार्य विद्यारण्य तथा माधवाचार्य दोनों से भिन्न हैं।
मध्वाचार्य ( = मध्व + आचार्य ; तुलु : ಶ್ರೀ ಮಧ್ವಾಚಾರ್ಯರು) (1238-1317) भारत में भक्ति आन्दोलन के समय के सबसे महत्वपूर्ण दार्शनिकों में से एक थे। वे पूर्णप्रज्ञ व आनन्दतीर्थ के नाम से भी प्रसिद्ध हैं। वे तत्ववाद के प्रवर्तक थे जिसे द्वैतवाद के नाम से जाना जाता है। द्वैतवाद, वेदान्त की तीन प्रमुख दर्शनों में एक है। मध्वाचार्य को वायु का तृतीय अवतार माना जाता है (हनुमान और भीम क्रमशः प्रथम व द्वितीय अवतार थे)।
मध्वाचार्य कई अर्थों में अपने समय के अग्रदूत थे, वे कई बार प्रचलित रीतियों के विरुद्ध चले गये हैं। उन्होने द्वैत दर्शन का प्रतिपादन किया। इन्होने द्वैत दर्शन के ब्रह्मसूत्र पर भाष्य लिखा और अपने वेदान्त के व्याख्यान की तार्किक पुष्टि के लिये एक स्वतंत्र ग्रंथ 'अनुव्याख्यान' भी लिखा। श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता और उपनिषदों पर टीकाएँ, महाभारत के तात्पर्य की व्याख्या करनेवाला ग्रंथ महाभारततात्पर्यनिर्णय तथा श्रीमद्भागवतपुराण पर टीका ये इनके अन्य ग्रंथ है। ऋग्वेद के पहले चालीस सूक्तों पर भी एक टीका लिखी और अनेक स्वतंत्र प्रकरणों में अपने मत का प्रतिपादन किया।

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 || OM namo bhagavate vasudevaya OM ||

1 The son of Pavana, who desired to cross the ocean, prayed to 

Lord Rama, who hasAishwarya and other five auspicious attributes 

which are eternal and omnipresent in Him,who is the Lord of all 

and who is the big ocean of strength and energy; He then climbed 

thatexcellent mountain and jumped from there.

2 The ocean, which got pulled by the power of Hanuman, 

got troubled; It started to follow him along with its creatures; 

The trees in the mountain got sucked by his speed and followed 

him; The 'Mainaka' mountain which was earlier thrown into the 

ocean by Vayu came up for him.

3 That mountain was the brother-in-law of Shiva; It was made 

of gold; Earlier when the wings of mountains were being clipped 

(by Indra), it had saved himself (through Vayu); The mountain 

which had many peaks pierced the ocean and came up to provide 

rest to Hanuman.

4 Hanuman, who is never tired, did not wish to rest on it; Where is 

tiredness for one who has infinite strength and courage? He went 

ahead after pressing that excellent mountain with his leg and then 

saw a Naga lady who had been sent by devatas after giving her boons.

5 The devatas, who desired to know the strength of Hanuman, 

had given her a boon thus -"Let whatever you desire fall into 

your mouth"; Hanuman, who entered her mouth, came out of 

it immediately and made the devatas happy while still making 

their boon come true.

6 Seeing Hanuman's affection for them and his excellent strength, 

the devatas appreciated him greatly by showering flowers on him; 

Being respected by them in this way, he continued his journey and 

saw a planetary body by name Simhika.

7 Brahma had granted her limitless strength in order to restrict 

people and protect Lanka; She attracted the shadow of Hanuman; 

He entered her body and immediately tore her into pieces.

8 Showing that his strength is without limits, he killed her though 

she was protected by Brahma's boon; He then jumped on to the 

'Lamba' mountain which was surrounding Lanka like a cover and 

had a lot of peaks; He then took a very small form.

9 Hanuman took the size of a cat and wished to enter the city 

during the night; He then saw the abhimani devata of Lanka 

who had taken her real form; She stopped him; He quickly 

smashed her with his fist and won the battle with her; He 

then entered Lanka after taking her consent.

10 Hanuman, who started searching both inside and outside of 

Lanka, saw the form of Sita seated in the Ashoka vana under a 

Shimshupa tree.

11 Knowing fully well the intent of Lord Rama in mocking the 

world of humans, Hanuman also did things in accordance with 

the Lord's intent.

12 He spoke things in accordance with that; He gave a ring to 

that form of Sita which was also behaving in accordance with 

that intent of the Lord.

13 The ornaments of Sita also had taken two forms and were 

present on the form of Sita as well; After that, Sita also gave 

him a chudamani to be handed over to Lord Rama.

14 The groups of Rakshasas were not able to see all that; But, 

devatas and Rishis who were in the sky were able to see all this.

15 This form of following (by Hanuman and Sita) was being 

enacted in order to entertain them and also cheat Kali and 

other Daityas who were watching all this.

16 The son of Pavana did all this without any fear; He, who is 

the best amongst intelligent ones, then decided that the 

greatness of the Lord has to be brought to the fore.

17 After that, the hero Hanuman destroyed the entire vana 

except that one (Shimshupa) tree; Desiring to cause more of 

the evils' destruction, he climbed up the entrance arch shouting 

increasingly loudly.

18 After that, the ten headed Ravana heard that extra ordinary 

activity of the excellent monkey Hanuman; He sent across a lot 

of his servants saying to them - "Bring that monkey to me".

19 Those servants, who had become invincible due to the boon 

of Hara, surrounded that son of Vayu, who was the best amongst 

devatas and who was also extremely powerful.

20 Eighty crore army-leaders; Eighty thousand commanders and 

many numerous weapon collections; The army which had all these 

surrounded that excellent monkey Hanuman.

21 All of them pounced upon Hanuman; And they hit him with 

their weapons; Hanuman smashed all of them with just his fists.

22 And then Hanuman killed seven of Ravana's ministers' sons 

whom he sent for battle; They were all mountain like creatures; 

And they were all protected with the boons of Brahma and Rudra.

23 Similarly, he killed all those Rakshasas who were the leaders of 

that army and were overconfident with Rudra's boons; He destroyed 

one third of the army of those Rakshasas.

24 After getting to hear that the monkey's strength in incomparable, 

the king of the Rakshasas deployed his son Aksha Kumara who was 

equal to him in strength.

25 He showered special arrows strengthened with great astras on 

that son of Vayu who is considered as the witness for the entire 

Universe; But he could not even shake Hanuman with those.

26 Looking at Aksha Kumara, the son of Mandodari and the one 

equal to Ravana in strength, Hanuman thought - "Isn't he one 

third the entire strength of Ravana?"

27 "I have to leave Ravana to Lord Raghava; And if I kill 

Indrajit, others will not get to know his strength"

28 "Therefore, I will kill this one who is equal to both of them" - 

thinking thus, Hanuman quickly got hold of his legs and jumped up.

29 The son of Vayu, Hanuman, got hold of the son of Ravana 

and spun him like a disc repeatedly and smashed him to the 

ground instantly.

30 After getting to know that his son was killed after being 

smashed to the ground, Ravana, who was filled with grief sent 

across his elder son Indrajit.

31 Then, Indrajit invoked powerful astras on to his excellent 

arrows and hit them at Hanuman; But he could not manage to 

even shake him.

32 After that, Indrajit released the powerful astra of Brahma 

which cannot be tolerated by anyone; Hanuman, who was hit 

by that weapon, got into a thought without gettingdisturbed 

even a little.

33 "Many boons of Brahma have been broken by me; I also 

hold him very reverentially; Therefore, I shall now respect 

this (weapon)"

34 "What can these cheering groups of Rakshasas do? Also, 

by doing this, I will get to see Ravana whom I have to meet 

anyway"

35 Thinking of all this, the best amongst monkeys Hanuman 

stood there as if arrested; Then,the Rakshasas bound him with 

other chains; The brahmastra of Indrajit left from there.

36 Then, they took Hanuman to the lord of the nocturnals 

Ravana; Ravana questioned him thus.

37 "O monkey! Where have you come from? Whose messenger 

are you? Why did you do this?" - On being questioned thus, 

Hanuman prayed to Lord Rama with devotion and said.

38 "Know me as the messenger of Lord Rama whose bravery 

is limitless and who is the best amongst Raghus; I am the son 

of Vayu; Know me as being fully capable of destroying your 

family".

39 "If you do not immediately hand over the dear one of 

Lord Rama to the best amongst Raghu, you will get soon 

get destroyed along with your sons, friends and relatives".

40 "Even Brahma, Rudra and other excellent devatas are 

not capable of facing the arrows of Lord Rama; How then 

are you, with such meagre strength, capable of facing him?"

41 "If he gets angry, who in this world, including devatas, 

danavas and sarpas are capable of facing him? His greatness 

is beyond measure".

42 When Hanuman spoke thus, Ravana wanted to kill 

Hanuman but Vibhishana stopped him; Then, Ravana 

put his Rakshasas on to the work of burning Hanuman's tail.

43 Then, they covered the tail of Hanuman with mounds of 

clothes and set fire to it; But Agni, who is the friend of Vayu, 

did not burn Hanuman's tail.

44 Hanuman is one without any sorrow; He is excellent by 

strength; Still, he tolerated all the work of the Rakshasas only 

with the intention of burning Lanka.

45 Hanuman burnt the entire city with the fire on his tail; Though 

that  city was built by Vishwakarma, it got burned by his radiance.

46 That city was made out of gold and precious gems; Hanuman, 

having burnt down that city along with many great Rakshasas, was 

very satisfied and let go a big roar.

47 Hanuman, who trivialized Ravana along with his son, burnt down 

the city as they kept watching and left the place.

48 Hanuman crossed the ocean again and got worshipped by 

his people; Having enjoyed the honey in Madhuvana, he joined 

his Lord Sri Rama.

49 The son of Pavana, Hanuman, who, along with all other 

monkey-heroes, reached Lord Rama, who is the Lord of all 

devatas and is with infinite attributes and dear to the heart, 

offered the Chudamani given by the form of Sita to His 

feet and bowed down to Him with devotion with his entire body.

50 Lord Rama, who was completely satisfied, having realized 

that there is nothing better to offer to the extremely devoted 

son of Vayu, Hanuman, gave Himself and hugged him very tightly.

|| End of chapter 7, known as 'Hanumatpratiyaanam 

(SundaraKanda Katha Nirupanam)',

from the Mahabharata Tatparya Nirnaya, composed by 

Srimadanandatirtha Bhagavatpada ||

|| Sri Krishnaarpanamastu ||