[Advaita-l] Fwd: मथुराधिपते...मधुराधिपते.....which is correct?

[D.V.N.Sarma డి.వి.ఎన్.శర్మ]

According to Monier-Williams Madhura (city) refers to Mathura.
Sabdakalpadruma also identifies Madhura city with Mathura city.

regards,
Sarma.

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:31 AM, Jaldhar H. Vyas via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Feb 2018, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l wrote:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 11:37 PM
>> Subject: मथुराधिपते...मधुराधिपते.....which is correct?
>> To: BHARATIYA VIDVAT <bvparishat at googlegroups.com>
>>
>>
>> While thinking of the famous madhuraashTakam, I suddenly felt that since
>> it
>> is on Krishna, could it be that it is मथुराधिपते...?  And when I gave a
>> search with this word, I was surprised to get results:
>>
>> http://stotram.lalitaalaalitah.com/2011/03/hymns-to-krishna-
>> madhurashtaka.html
>>
>> (वल्लभाचार्यकृतम्)
>> अधरं मधुरं वदनं मधुरं नयनं
>> मधुरं हसितं मधुरम् ।
>> हृदयं मधुरं गमनं मधुरं मथुराधिपतेरखिलं
>> मधुरम् ॥ १ ॥
>> Very few results with this word were obtained. However, with the popular
>> word '.मधुराधिपते..' countless results were found.
>>
>> Is there any निर्णायकः  for this? In any case it is called 'मधुराष्टकम्'
>> popularly and it is because of the maadhurya paanam by the poet and not
>> because it is of a person of whose everything is madhura.
>>
>> Thoughts of members here are welcome.
>>
>>
> Madhurashtaka is a composition of Vallabhacharya and it is indeed about a
> person of whose everything is madhura (according to him and his
> followers.)  The mathura/madhura mixup is probably due to the well-known
> consonant impediment amongst Tamil speakers.  I've never seen this in a
> Gujarati or North Indian version.
>
> --
> Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
>
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