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222 VATU-PUBNA. CH. XXXIII.
the backyard of DaSaratlii, brought them home.and used them ;'
thus shoving that everything that belongs to the Saviour is
holy, and all else is unholj'. This demeanour proves the
acme of the state of a spiritually risen soul dissevered from
all touch of worldliness (vairagj-a.)
Purna was strict as regards ths taking of Sri-pada-tirtha, for
he sipped no water washed off any other's
foot save that "of his
Saviour, Ram&nuja. He memorialized this faith, of his, by shaping
au image of his feet and setting them iip for worship for
all time to come at th^ village of Sfi.ligr£ima—as the most
cherishtfd treasui'e for himself and all posterity' ; and that it
must be looked upon as such by all the coming generations, was
the most solemn trust which he imposed on those near and dear
to him, at the time of his translation from the mundane. Vatupurna
is thus assigned a place in the inner circle of Ramanuja's
hierarchical institutions, called the Ashta-diggajas, or the
Eight Elephants of Faith to guard the eight cardinal points of
the coinpass." This sage it was who sang the famous hymn to
Bditfianuja, called the RS,mannj-asthottara-Sata-nama, sung
every day by every Sr! vaishnava. The last verse runs thus :
' The meaning of this is that tliern, or sisters, or father, or mowheu
a spiritual relation with ther, or wife, or children, or lands
spiritual jnen is established, that for my name's sake &c." [Mat.
btcomrs holj-, and all affections XIX, 29] ; and " if anj man come"
contracted with kinsmen who are to me and liate not his' father, and
worldly are contaminations. Their mother &c." [Luke XI V, 26].
Tory touch is considered as antago- =Tlie Ijoly descendants of Purna,
nistic to the growth of the new mentioned on page 220, foot note ']
spiritual relation. The parallel to have sung thus in their Yatirajathisidea
is Jesus saying :— " Every sarva-bliauma-Sataka — ^TFtra^irr
one that hath left house, or bro-
^g^^nf^TTPsg^ &c.