Sri RanganAtha PaadhukA Sahasram: SlOkam 135

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SrimathE RaamAnujAya nama:

 

135.praikshantha vakthrair MaNipaadharakshE

sathrunjayam sailamivAdhirUDAm

RaamAbhidhAna prathipanna harshai:

utthAnthai:utara kOsalAsthvAm

 

Translation by U.Ve.Sri VedAntha Desikan Swamy

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(1) Sri UttamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Oh MaNi PaadharakshE !

The citizens of Utthara Kosalaa saw You seated upon

the royal elephant , Satrunjayam and assumed that RaamA

Himself had returned. Their happy faces welcomed You

and called You RaamA . They knew that RaamA was

at the ChithrakUtA mountain , but for a moment

they assumed that Satrunjayam was the ChithrakUtA

mountain and You were RaamA and responded accordingly.

 

(2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam:

 

Oh PaadhukE ! when you rode on that tall royal

elephant , people looked up and thought it was

RaamA , who was sititng on top of that elelphant.

They were joyous over those thoughts.The inner meaning

is that knowledgable people celebrate their AchAryAs

even more than PerumAl .

 

(3) Swamy Desikan describes the gigantic royal

elephant as a mountain (Sailam ). Paadhukais

were sititng on top of that mountain/elephant ,

where RaamA used to sit. Hence , they addressed

the Paadhukais with the Name of RaamA (RaamAbhidhaana)

and were filled with joy ...V.S