Padhuka Sahasram-101

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>Sri:

>SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,>

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

>Swamin:

>

>SamarpaNa Paddhati: ChaturyI

>

>101. BhajAma: pAdhukE! yABhyAm BharatasyAgrajasthadhA

> prAya: prathiprayANAya prAsThAnikamakalpayath

>

>We pay homage to the two Paadukas, which Rama gave to Bharata (at

>Chitrakoota) as a sure symbol of his later return (to Ayodhya), as

>is usually done in the world (under the name parasthana).

>

>Namo Narayana,

>Adiyen,SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

NOTES BY V.SADAGOPAN (V.S):

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(1)UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Swami Desikan examines

the reasons why Lord RaamachandrA wore His Paadhukhais ,

when he agreed to enter the forest to fulfill a vow made by

His father to His step Mother , KaikEyi.He suggests that

RaamachandrA might have observed the custom of parasthAnam .

A person , who can not start on a journey at an auspicious

time sends one or more of his property ahead of him at an

equally auspicious time.This is the practise is known as

ParasthAnam . Swami Desikan wonders whether RaamA sent

His Paadhukhais through BharathA at ChithrakUtam in an

auspicious time in anticipation of His return to AyOdhyA

some fourteen years later. Swami Desikan also wonders

whether the Paadhukhais were given by RaamA to His brother

BharathA as a safeguard for latter's journey to AyOdhyA

without Him .

 

(2)Srimath Andavan's anubhavam: The inner meaning of this

slOkam is as follows: When a Jeevan begs the Lord to come

to him or asks the Lord to call him back to Parama Padham ,

the Lord blesses the Jeevan with a sadAchAryan , who is never

separated from His (Lord's) sacred feet .The Jeevan seeks

refuge in that sadAchAryan and pleases him and receives

that SadAchAryan's paripUrNAnugraham to join the Lord

in parama Padham through the performance of prapatthi.

Without the sadAchArya anugraham , the Jeevan never

attains the boon of parama padha Vaasam and nithya

Kaimkaryam to the Lord there .

 

(3) There are 20 slOkams in this fourth paddhathi

of Sri RanganAtha PaadhukhA sahasram , SamarpaNa

Paddhathi.Every one of these slOkams deal with

the gifting of Sri RaamachandrA's paadhukhais

to His brother at ChithrakUtam and the significance

of that gift.Swami hints in the first slOkam that RaamA

performed perhaps PrAsthanikam for the purpose of

PrathiprayANam (return) to AyOdhyA after his exile

in the forest for 14 years ....V.S