Bhishma and Sisupala's tactics

Whenever you recite or hear bhishma stuti when it reaches हरिरिव हन्तुमिमं गतोत्तरीय: gurunathal starts flashing in the mind so brightly and his vyakyanam is played inside the mind like a recorded message. simple translation would be that krishna's uttariyam fell down when he rushed towards bhishma. Since every small action of hari has a purpose, this has its reasons too, as wonderfully put by none-other-than and who-else-can. 1. to show Bhishma how he looked when in fury, ignoring his uttariyam 2. leaving uttariyam behind so that horses know he is still there as sarathi 3. to give bhishma a darshan of his neela mega shyamala shariram 4. so that sri lakshmi thayar who resides in his vakshasthalam can bestow kataksham on Bhishma and so on. Bhisma eagerness to get attacked by krishna reminds me of the sishyal's eagerness to get 'kuttu' and 'adi' from gurunathal. No wonder raavana sisupalaadi villains were so persistent even though they knew their end. Sri Hariji says when sisupalan's mother srutakirthi asked krishna a varam she asked him not to kill sisupalan not just until he scolded 100 times but until he scolded 100 times at a stretch :-). The represents one of Bhagavan's guna called 'kshama' which is an embodiment of bhumadevi or bhumi piratti, as Swami Desikan says 'मुकुन्द चरणौ शरणं क्षमे त्वं' in Bhu Stuti. Sisupalan made sure he did this just to ensure he gets the darshan of chakrapani before his end. As gurunathal says while usually everyone pray to get darshan of chakrapani rupam, Sisupalan scolded for it and Bhishma fought for it.