Sri RanganAtha PaadhukA sahasram: SlOkam 132

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SrImathE RaamAnujAya nama:

 

132. maathasthvath aagamana mangaLa darsanInAm

SaakEtha pakshmaLadhrusAm chaDulAkshi bhrungai:

jaathAni tathra sahasA MaNipaadharakshE

vaathayanAni vadhanaissathapathrithAni

 

Translation by U.Ve.Sri V.N.Vedantha Desikan Swamy

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Oh Mother PaadhukE ! At the time of Your auspicous

entry into the city of AyOdhyA , the windows of the city

were decorated , as it were with lotus flowers with

hovering-bees , when the beautiful faces of the damsels

looked through the windows with their eyes wandering

here and there.

 

Notes by V.Sadagopan(V.S):

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(1) Sri UthtamUr Swamy's anubhavam:

 

Oh Kind Mother PaadhukAs ! When You entered the streets

of AyOdhyA , the eyes of all the ladies of that city ,

resembling the quickly moving bees , were riveted to

the windows of their houses. Their faces resembled

the lotus flowers. Suddenly , it looked as though

the windows of the houses were filled with blossoemed

lotuses surrounded by fast moving bees.

 

(2)Srimath Andaban's anubhavam:

 

Oh PaadhukE ! The ladies of AyOdhyA enjoyed

the uthsavam of Your entry into AyOdhyA from

the vantage point of their windows . Their faces were

joyous like the freshly boomed lotuses . The rapid

movement of their eyes following Your pattiNa pravEsam

was like rapidly moving honey bees.

 

(3) Swamy Desikan's kalpanA presents us the windows

of the houses of AyOdhyA as being populated by multitudes

of lotuses in the morning greeting the rising Sun . These

are the beautiful faces of the ladies of AyOdhyA , who

could follow the festivities easily from their windows.

The PaadhukAs were on top of a tall , majestic elephant

and the viewing of them from the upper elevation

of the windows made it possible for them to have the mangala

darsanam of the sacred Paadhukais of RaamA . Their

dark eyes were moving rapidly out of their eagerness

to follow the progress of the Paadhukais from every

angle . Those rapid eye movement of the ladies

is equated by Swamy Desikan to the speedy rush of

the dark hued , swarm of honey bees...V.S