Desikasthothramala- Sristhuthi

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Sri sthuthi

 

This sthothrawas also composed in Srirangam when a brhmachari came to Cdesika

and expressed his inabilty to get enough money for getting married. Desika took

him to the sannidhi of Sriranganayaki and composed this sthothra then and there

and there was a shower of gold coins which he gave to the brahmachari. This is a

similar incident as in the life of Sankara who produced the shower of gold

nellikkais (emblic myrabolans) to help a poor brahmin lady who felt sad that she

did not have anything to give him for bhisha except a rotten nellikkai.It shows

the power of saint devotees.

 

1. maanaatheethapraThitha vibhavaam mangalam

Mangalaanaam

vakshaHpeeTeem maDhuvijayinaH bhooshayantheem

svakaanthyaa

prathyakshaanuSravikamahimaa praarThineenam janaanaam

 

Sreyomoorthim Sriyam asaranaH thvaam SaraNyaam

Prapadhye

 

I, who has no other refuge, surrender to you, Sreedevi, of glorious form,who is

proclaimed of immeasurable greatness,the auspiciousness of the auspicious,who

illuminates the chest of Lord Naryana with her lustre and who is the resort of

those who wish for glory in this world and the next.

 

aSaranaH- having no other refuge

 

prapadhye- I surrender to

 

thvam – you

 

Sriyam- Sreedevi

 

maanaatheethapraThitha vibhavaam- whose greatness, vibhava, is procalimed,

praThitha, to be immeasurable, maanaatheetha

 

mangalam- who is the auspiciousness

 

mangalaanaam- of the auspicious

 

bhooshayantheem- who embellishes

 

vakshaHpeeTeem- the chest

 

maDhuvijayinaH of the destroyer of Madhu

 

 

Saranyam-and who is the resort of all

Sreyomoorthim- the embodiment of good fortune

 

 

Janaanaam- for those

 

praarThineenam- who pray for

 

prathyakshaanuSravika mahimaa-glory in thisworld, prathyaksha, and the next,

aanusravika.