Padhuka Sahasram-501

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Sri:

 

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

 

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

 

501. thrAsAth svayam praNamathAm dhanujEshvarANAm

sanKhyEvalUnashirasAmapi mouLirathnaI:

AyOjayathyanukalam maNipAdhukE! thvAm

saIranDhrikEva muravaIrikrupANaDhArA

 

Oh Manipaaduka! The sharpness of the Lord's sword is Your attendant-

woman plucking the gemstones from the crowns of asura chiefs-whether

they surrendered and lay down before the Lord or they had to be head-

chopped off in a battle.

 

Namo Narayana,

 

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

 

Special Notes by V.Satakopan:

 

Slokam 501:

 

1) UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam : Oh Gem-bedecked PaadhukE! Your

Lord's Sword is known as Nandhakam ; it removes the gems from the

crowns of asurAs, whose heads have been cut by the Lord for their

apachArams. Nandhakam acts like Your lady-in-waiting and decorates

You with the gems that it assembled. When the friendly kings bow

before You with their crowned heads, nandhakam does not remove the

gems from their crowns to place over You . The asura kings

get an idea from this differential treatment meted out by the Lord's

sword. They bow before You and declare that they are Your devotees

and escape from the wrath of Nandhakam ; further , they take some

gems from their crowns on their own accord and place it on You as

their voluntary offering to protect their heads.

 

2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam: PerumAl goes out on His Saadhu

SamrakshaNa- Dhushta Nigraha YaathrAs . At the end of the journey ,

He returns to His aasthAnam with the crowns placed at His Paadhukai

by some asurAs , who surrender to Him without fighting. He cuts off

the heads of others, who fight Him and drops off their crowns in

front of His Paadhukais. The inner meaning is that SaadhvikAs fear

about the consequences of their paapams and surrender at the feet of

the Lord. The dhushtAs are punished by the Lord and places their

crowns at His feet.

 

2) Two kinds of crowns are seen at the feet of the Lord . The power

of the Lord's sankalpam and its execution through the sword of the

Lord is referred to here. One set of crowns were voluntary

placements at the feet of the Lord by the scared asurAs, who do not

wish to fight the Lord. They seek the Lord's protection. The second

set of crowns lying at the Thiruvadi of the Lord is from the head

of asurAs , who chose to fight and lost their heads.

 

3) The gems from the crowns of the two sets of asurAs join with the

lustre of the gems from the external surface of the PaadhukAs ( Mouli

rathnai: anukalam aayOjayathi). The crowns from those who voluntarily

surrendered (thrAsAth svayam praNamathAm dhanujEsvarA: ) and those ,

who fought with the Lord and lost their heads ( SankhyE avaloon

sirasaam dhanujEsvarA: ) ; both are seen at the feet of the Lord ..

(V.S).