Swami Desikan's PadhukhA Sahasram --Part 3

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Sri Rangapathim SaraNamaham PrapathyE .

 

Dear Members of the Prapatthi Group :

 

In this posting , I will begin to cover the individual

chapters of RPS of Swami Desikan . There are 32 chapters

in RPS just as in the case of Rahasya Traya Saaram . The context

of the 32 chapters of RPS by Swami Desikan is to

the 32 Brahma VidyAs celebrated by the Upanishads . Prapatthi

is one of these 32 Brahma Vidyas and RPS is ALL about

this particular Brahma Vidya .

 

The names of the Individual chapters and the number of slokams

housed in these Paddhathis( chapters / Vazhi / Maargam )

in paranthesis are :

 

1. PrasthAva paddhathi( 20 )

2 . SamAkhyA paddhathi (10)

3. PrabhAva Paddhathi ( 100 )

4. SamarpaNa Paddhathi ( 20 )

5. PrathiprasthAna Paddhathi ( 20 )

6 . AdhikAra Parigraha Paddhathi ( 40 )

7 . Abhisheka Paddhathi ( 30 )

8 . NiryAthanA paddhathi( 30 )

9 . VaithALikA paddhathi (10 )

10 . SrungAra Paddhathi ( 10 )

 

In the middle of the above Paddhathi , Swami

Desikan completes the first quartile of RPS .

 

11 . SanchAra Paddhathi ( 60 )

12 . Pushpa Paddhathi ( 30 )

13 . ParAga Paddhathi ( 30 )

14 . Naadha Paddhathi (100 )

15 . Rathna SaamAnya Paddhathi ( 50 )

 

In the middle of the above Paddhathi , Swami Desikan

reaches the halfway point of His 1008 Slokams of RPS .

He has by now reached the half way mark of

the Yaamam of the night at Srirangam .

 

16 . Bahurathna Paddhathi ( 50 )

17 . PadmarAga Paddhathi ( 30 )

18 . MukthA Paddhathi ( 50 )

19 . Marathaka Paddhathi ( 20 )

20 . Indra Neela Paddhathi ( 30 )

21 . BimBha PrathibimBha paddhathi ( 20 )

22 . Kaanchana Paddhathi ( 20 )

23 . Sesha Paddhathi ( 10 )

 

In the middle of Sesha Paddhathi , Swami Desikan

racing against time reached the third quarter of the RPS

and is poised to enter the most important home stretch .

 

24 . Dwandhva Paddhathi ( 20 )

25. Sannivesa Paddhathi ( 20 )

26 . YanthrikA paddhathi ( 10 )

27 . RekhA Paddhathi ( 10 )

28 . SubhAshitha Paddhathi (10 )

29 . PrakeerNa Paddhathi ( 80 )

30 . Chitra Paddhathi ( 40 )

31 . NirvEda Paddhathi ( 20 )

32 . Pala Paddhathi ( 38 )

 

In the very last slokam of PaadukhA Sahasram ,

Swami Desikan with His extraordinary sense of focus and

purpose reminds us of the central message of His

Sri Ranganatha PadhukhA Sthotram (VIZ )., SadhAcharya,

Bhagavadh Sambhandham and the doctrine of us being

married into the ROYAL FAMILY and the glory of the everlasting

purushArtham , Moksham through the DayA of NamperumAL

and the AnukampA of Sri Ranganayaki for us as their beloved children .

 

I will conclude this posting with the quotation of

the FIRST AND LAST last slokam of RPS :

 

SLOKAM 1 :

 

SANTHA: SRIRANGAPRUTHVEESA

SARANA THRAANA SEKHARAA :I

JAYANTHI BHAUVANATHRAANA

PADHA PANKAJA RENAVA: II

 

SLOKAM 1,008:

 

JAYATHI YATHIRAAJASOOKTHI :

JAYATHI MUKHUNDASYA PADHUKHAA YUGALEE I

TADHUBHAYA DHANAA: TRIVEDHEEM

AVANDHYAYANTHO JAYANTHI BHUVI SANTHA : II

 

The sense of symmetry and the unity in the first and the last

slokams and for that matter across the length of RPS has no

parallel . The start with the word Santha : and the ending with the

same word , Santha : and the singing of Pallandu to those SanthAs

with the words Jayanthi and Jayathi at the beginning and the ending

of RPS is another great pointer to the centrality of the message of

RPS on the BhagavathAs and their victory in obtaining the object

of their endeavours (viz)., SadhAcharya Sambhandham and

the marriage with the Lord of Srirangam through the anugraham

of SatAri Suri , the Kula pathi for PrapannAs .

 

" santha : SrinigamAnthaArya sambhavithasuvrutthaya : I

sahanthAm saahasam teevram suhruthbhAvEna maamakam II "

 

SrimathE NigamAntha MahAdesikAya Nama: II

 

Sriranganaatha divya MaNi PaadhukhAbhyAm Nama: II

 

Oppiliappan koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan