SrI RanganAtha PaadhukA Sahasram Likhitha Kaimkarya Poorthy , PurattAsi SravaNam , 2004

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Dear BhakthAs:

 

Today (Sep 24) is PurattAsi SravaNam day is Sukla Paksha

EkAdasi day as well .Today is the birthday of Swamy Desikan

as well .

 

Five years ago , adiyEn returned from a trip to India and soon after

had a mysterious fever . The Doctors were unable to determine the cause

of it and I stayed in the hospital for two weeks . While there , I prayed to

SrI RanganAtha Paadhukais and made a sankalpam to translate

all of the 1008 SlOkams of SrI RanganAtha Paadhuka Sahasram (RPS) from

the source grantham of Vaikunta Vaasi SrI UtthamUr Swamy's scholarly

commentary . The son-in-law of UtthamUr Swamy , Sri KaraLapAkkam

KrishNan Swamy had lent me the library copy of this treatise . After adiyEn

made that Sankalpam , the fever went away and adiyEn came home and in

a month's time adiyEn was blessed to fulfill that Sankalpam .

 

UtthamUr Swamy's commentary is extensive and scholarly for each of

the 1008 slOkams . The goal was to summarize UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam of

each slOkam into one succinct paragraph . It was a tough task that got

completed with AchArya anugraham . By this time , some one presented me

with the exquisite two volume commentaries of SrIrangam Srimath Andavan's

commentaries on Sri RanganAtha PaadhukA Sahasram . Dr.V.N.VedAntha Desikan's

commentaries in English and Tamil for each of these slokams were

released by LIFCO .

 

A dear sishya of Pundarikapuram SrImath Andavan , Dr.Muralidhar Rangasway

joined me to publish one slOkam of RPS per day . Dr.Rangaswamy would post

the slOkam and its meaning by Dr.VedAntha Desikan and adiyEn would add

footnotes for that slOkam consisting of three parts: (1) UtthamUr Swamy's

anubhavam , (2) SrImath Andavan's anubhavam and (3) additional commentary on

the individual words or groups of words chosen by Swamy Desikan during

His inspired moments of composing this Mahaa Kaavyam less than 2 hours

in front of Lord RanganAtha at Srirangam . It took five years for both of us

to complete this Kaimakryam .Sri Achutha Raaman of Bangalore created

a special web site and it was supplemented by the archives :

 

http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/oppiliappan/archives/mrps/threads.html

 

Sri Achyutha Raaman's web site can be accessed with a Google query on

" Padhuka+sahasram ". It is very important to see the PaadhukA Yanthram

hand drawn by Swamy Desikan Himself on this sacred day :

 

http://swamydesikan.tripod.com/yantra.html

 

 

As adiyEn stood before Lord RanganAthan's sannidhi , a flood of memories

associated with the likhitha Kaimkaryam swept before my mind's eyes .

adiyEn will share some of them with you all tomorrow.

 

adiyEn's special thanks to Sri Muralidhar Rangaswamy of Boston and

Sri Achutharaman of Bangalore for their joint contributions to this Kaimakryam

over the past five years .

 

NamO SrI RanganAthaaya ,

Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan