Sri RanganAtha PadhukhA Sahasram : SlOkam 123

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SrimathE RanganAyaki SamEtha Sri RanganAthAya Nama:

 

Dear BhakthAs: Sri Murali Rangaswamy is away in India

until the end of the month.Prior to his journey , he left

with me the transcription of the slOkams upto 140 of

the Sri PaadhukhA Sahasram and their meanings as given by

Sri U.Ve Dr.V.N.VedAntha Desikan . I will continue with

the Kaimkaryam of adding special notes until Sri Rangaswamy's

return to his US base.

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123: dasavadhana vinAsam vaanchathO yasya chakrE

DasarathamanagOkthim DaNdakAraNya YaathrA

sa cha Bharatha vimarthE sathyasantha: thvyAseeth

Raghupathi PadharakshE raajadhAnIm prayAnthyA

 

Sri U.Ve.Dr. V.N.Vedantha Desikan's Translation

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Oh PaadhukA! It is because of You ,returning to the land

that -- RamA's determination to go to DaNdakAraNyA so that

He could achieve the removal of the demon RavaNA was upheld,

His father DasarathA's promise was fulfilled and-RamA's assent

to BharatA's persuasion ( to return to the country) was also

fulfilled in some mannner.

 

Notes By V.Sadagopan (V.S)

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(1) Sri UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam :

 

Sri Raama PadhukAs made Him a man of true words.

The PaadhukAs made Him credible with respect to

the promise He made to His father DasarathA and helped

Him complete the mission of His incarnation on

this earth(viz)., the elimination of RaavaNA ,

the evil one.The PaadhukhAs went with BharathA and made

RaamA fulfil His pledges to His father and the DevAs .

 

(2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam:

 

The inner meaning is that our Lord can not grant

Moksham without the help of the sadaachAryAs.It is

because of the help of Paadhukais that RaamA's avathAra

kaaryam was completed , His promise to DasarathA was

fulfilled .All of these were made possible by the Padhukai's

return to AyOdhyA at the insistence of BharathA .

 

(3) Swamy Desikan salutes the prabhAvam of the Paadhukais

this way: " Raghupathi PadharakshE !-- thvyaa (Raama:)

sathyasandha: aaseeth " . Your Lord became the executor

of His prathij~nais (solemn, sworn vows). These vows

were (1)to make true His father's promises to KaikEyi ,

which kept his reputation as a man of true words (anagOkthi)

(2) to fulfil His avathAra kaaryam and promise to dEvAs

that He will get the world rid off the evil RaavaNA .

These vows would not have been accomplished but for

PaadhukA's intervention to return to AyOdhyA as

the representative of RaamA for making Him

a Sathyasandhan .... V.S

 

(4) Swami Desikan chooses the name " Raghupathi PadharakshE "

to address Sri Raama Paadhukais here . The Paadhukais

not only protected His Paadhams from the sharp

stones and the thorns of the forest but also protected His

words .Thus it provided two kinds of " padha " RakshaNam .

 

(5) Swami Desikan choses the word " Vipadh " in the context

of BharathA's insistence or Nirbhandham to get the PaadhukA's

back to AyOdhyA in the absence of his brother ( Bharatha

VipardhE RaajadhAnim PrayAnthyA thvayA (Raama:) Sathyasandha:

aaseeth). Vipadh means calamity or adversity or great sorrow.

BharathA's mental anguish over RaamA's rejection of his

request was unfathomable . The immense dayA of the Padhukais

to lift BharathA out of his " vibhadh " while making RaamA

a man of true words (Sathyasandhan ) is saluted here..V.S