Guest guest Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 Swami Sri Manaval Mamunikal’s YATHIRAJA VIMSATI Author: Sri S.Satyamurthi Iyengar Yatiraja vimsati Sloka 14 vAcAmagocaramahAguNadeshikAgraya * kUrAdhinAthakathitAkhilanaicyapAtram | eShohameva na punarjagatIdR^ishastad * rAmAnujArya karuNaiva tu madgatiste || (14) Sloka 14 Oh, Ramanuja, my preceptor! There can be no better person For the bestowal of your Grace than I, the only one Bristling with all those traits claimed as his own, In sheer humility, by Koorathazhvan, the Savant great, Full of auspicious qualities, hard to enumerate. Notes: The great qualities of head and heart of the illustrious Koorathazhvan are too numerous to be listed and are thus literally beyond words (vachamagocharam). Nevertheless, he resorted to self-denunciation (naichyanusandanam), out of sheer humility. The poet owns here that all those base qualities, foisted on himself by Azhvan, rightly belonged to him (the poet). The terminal phraseology (karunaivatumatgatisto) can be interpreted to mean “Your Grace can be unraveled to its fullest length only in my case and in no other, and it has, therefore, to seek refuge in me alone, there being no worthier recipient, none other so badly off as to need Your grace, in full, for his redemption. c.f. stanza 48 of Ramanuja Nootrandadi echoing the same sentiments. =============================================================== Retyped from the book by Sri Kesavan Srinivasan of Chicago (The Grandson of Sri U.Ve. Satyamurthi Iyyengar.) =============================================================== Vedic_Books http://www.radioramanuja.com/eb Vedics Foundation: http://www.vedics.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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