Padhuka Sahasram-856

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Sri:

 

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

 

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

 

 

856. nAdhE padhAvani! thaThA thava sannivEshE

nirvEshanakramamasahyamapAchikIrShu:

yaIrEva lOchanashathaIraBhivIkshathE thvAm

thaIrEva pannagapathi: shruthimAn baBhUva

 

Oh Paaduka! You are a form taken by Adisesha. He himself wished to

enjoy your form and melody simultaneously. He was not prepared to

bear the time-lag between seeing and hearing, even if it would be

trivially small. So he acquired, by Your grace the unusual faculty of

hearing through the eyes themselves. His hundreds of eyes become,

themselves, so many ears as well. He thus became previleged to see

and hear You synchronously.

 

(1. The Indian traditional belief is that the serpent has no separate

hearing organ except the eyes. It is so named too.

2. Even Nityasooris cherish to worship and hear Azhvar.)

 

 

Namo Narayana,

 

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

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

 

SlOkam 856

 

1) UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Swamy Desikan focuses on

AadhisEsha enjoying the sound and sight of the PaadhukAs with

His two thousand eyes. It is generaly believed that eyes of the snake

acts as an organ of sight as well as hearing. Swamy Desikan states

that AadhisEshan is intently experiencing the pleasures of seeing

the beautiful PaadhukAs in movement with His eyes. Swamy

Desikan observes: " Oh PaadhukE ! AadhisEsha can not wait

even for one second to enjoy both your beautiful form and

the delectable sounds created by You as You move around through

the jingling of Your various gems. He wants to take in both Your

beauty and Your sunAdhams and uses His two thousand eyes to

accomplish that goal. As a result, He becomes known for His

sense of hearing ".

 

2) SrImath Andavan's anubhavam: AadhisEshan has great joy in seeing

Your beautiful body and Your naadham as You move. He wanted to

enjoy them simultaneously. For ordinary snakes, it is hard to

concentrate on both the seeing and hearing at the same time.

Therefore, AadhisEshan converted His eyes to be both the seeing organ

and the hearing organ so that He can have both the cognitive

functions enmeshed in His eyes.

 

3) Oh PaadhukE ( Padhaavani) ! AadhisEshan(Pannaga Pathi: ) has

uncontrollable eagerness in enjoying Your auspciious sounds and Your

roopam ( Tava naadhE taTA tava SamnivEsE asahyam nirvEsana ). He

wanted to do away with any time delay between the seeing and the

hearing faculites (kramam apAchikeershu:). He empowered

His hundreds of eyes to seve as the sight and hearign organs ( Yai:

lOchana sathairEva ThvAm abhiveekshathE thairEva sruthimAn

Bhabhoova )...(V.S ).