Padhuka Sahasram-80

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>Sri:

>SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,>

>Translation of Paaduka Sahasram by U.Ve. Sri V.N. Vedanta Desikan

>Swamin:

>

>80. chUdAkapAlavyathiShangadhOSham vimochayiShyanniva viShNupadhyA:

> kruthAdhara: keshavapAdharakshE! biBharthi bAlEndhuviBhUShaNasthvAm

>

>Oh Paaduka! Siva bore You on his head with great relish, in order that

>Ganga on his head could get relieved of the bad taint acquired to it

>because of the contact with Brahma's skull (That Siva became holy and

>auspicious because of Ganga from the Lord Vishnu's feet falling on him

is a different story; here Ganga herself is being sanctified.)

>

>Namo Narayana,

>Adiyen,

>SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

NOTES BY V.SADAGOPAN(V.S):

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1) UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam : Oh Kesava PadhukhAs !

You do an important service to Rudran through Your

unique kindness. Devi GangA residing in the knotted

tresses of Rudran's head originated from Lord VishNu's

Paadhams . She now finds herself next to the skull

that Rudran wears as a decorative jewelery . Devi GangA

begins to worry that she as a remover of every one's sins

will no longer be able to do so because of her juxtaposition

with an inauspicous object (viz)., BrahmA's skull .

Oh PaadhukhE of the Lord ! When Rudran wears You on His head ,

You dispell the sorrows of GangA Devi .The amangala object ,

the skull , gets sanctified through contact with You and

reaches now an auspicious state equal to that of holy GangA.

She sheds her fears of being polluted by the proximity

of that skull and breathes easy .

 

2) Oh PaadhukE ! Lord SivA adorns You with longing

on His head. He houses Devi GangA on His head.

She resides next to the skull of BrahmA ( Brahma

kapAlam ). Does Lord SivA place You on His head to

remove the asuddhi arising from the contact with

the skull ? The inner meaning of this slOkam is that

any dhOsham that comes the way of BhagavathAs can

only be eliminated by Sambhandham with other BhagavathAs.

 

3) Swami Desikan chooses a set of beautiful words

to describe Lord SivA : " BaalEndhu VibhUshanan "

( The One who wears the young crescent Moon on

His tresses ). He recognizes Devi GangA as

" VishNu PadhyA " , the One who arose from the sacred

Paadham of Thrivikraman .The GangA Devi who acquired

sacredness through sambhandham with the Lord's holy

feet has another sambhandham ( Vyathishangam ), while

she resides on Lord ChandrasEkaran's head .GangA Devi

worries about " Vyathishanga DhOsham " through association

as a neighbor with the inauspicious skull .Lord SivA

comes now to the rescue of the worried GangA Devi and

adorns the PaadhukhAs of His Master , Sri RanganAthA

and has the inauspiciousness of the skull banished

through sambhandham with the sacred PaadhukhAs ..V.S