Padhuka Sahasram-450

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Sri:

 

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

 

Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin:

 

450. AdhoU sahasramithi yathsahasA mayOktham

thuShtUShathA niravaDhim mahimArNavam thE

AmrEdyasyaTha kimEthadhamruShyamANA

manjusvanEna maDhujinmaNipAdhukE! thvam

 

Or, do You, on hearing me make an abrupt and unthinking announcement

about a decision to compose a thousan verses in praise of the vast

ocean of Your greatness, feel that my claim was ambitious, that You

could not bear it, and so ask me curiously, "Did You say a

thousand?", using Your sweet melodious Nada?

 

Namo Narayana,

 

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

Special Notes by V. Sadagopan (V.S.)

 

(1) Sri UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Swamy Desikan points out here

that the paadhukAs welcome his efforts to compose the thousand verses

and augment them many fold with its own sweet naadham. He says: " Oh

MadhusUdhana PadhukE ! You have indeed expanded my efforts to praise

Your limitless glories with a mere thousand verses. You have blended

Your sweet sounds with my verses and have multiplied them into many

thousands. It is also Your intent , it seems to make my one thousand

verses into many thousands through the elaborate annotations and

references that You have added through the insertion of Your sweet

Naadham.

 

(2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam: Oh PadhukE ! One of the Sri

VaishNavAs Challenged me to compose 1,000 slOkams . adiyEn chose to

compose thousand Verses on You. The challenger elected to compose

thousand verses on Your Lord's Thiruvadi . adiyEn should not have

said that I will compose a thousand Since Your glories can not be

contained by a mere thousand . You are helping Me amplify them with

your sweet sounds.

 

(3) Oh paadhukE ! at the beginning of this contest (aadhou) , I was

desirous of praising Your limitless glories ( niravadhim thE mahima

arNavam thushtUshathA mayaa). I said quickly that I will compose

thousand verses( sahasA sahasramithi yath uktham ). You could not

brook this rash pledge and decided then to assist me to multiply the

eulogies …(V.S)