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yAmunah.
SrIcinmayAnanda comments that these yAmuna-s were not just keepers of
cows, but were indeed the keepers of the milk of knowledge of the upanishads.
He quotes from nArAyaNIyam in support:
tAruNyAramya ramyam parama sukha rasa svAda romA'ncitA'ngaih
AvItam nAradAdyaih vilasat upanishad sundarI maNDalaiSca ||
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(nArAyaNIyam daSaka 100.1)
"(I behold) the form of a divine boy, attractive with the advent of adolescence
and surrounded by nArada and others with their limbs covered with hairs
standing on end at the taste of the Bliss Supreme, and by that bevy of
charming maidens of the form of shining upanishads".
c) SrI kRshNa datta bhAradvAj uses the meaning "a type of collyrium" for the
term yAmunam, and gives the interpretation "sundaram yAmunam
nayanaa'njanam yasya iti su-yAmunah" - He Who has beautiful collyrium
decorating His eyes.
d) SrI satyadevo vAsishTha uses the root yam - uparame - to lift up, as the
basis for his interpretation. He gives the meaning "yacchati,uparamayati" -
"He who lifts up", to the word yAmunah. His interpretation is thus - Sobhano
yAmunah su-yAmuno vishNuh - One Who lifts up (the souls) in an auspicious
way (during the time of pralaya) -
bhagavAn vishNuh mahApralaye svakIyayA vyavasthayA kArya kAraNa
rUpam idam samastam viSvam yacchati, pariNatam uparamayati, Samayati.