Padhuka Sahasram-170

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Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,>

Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin:

 

170. yAvath thvayA raGhavapAdharakshE

jigIShithA rAkshasarAjaDhAnI

mAlEva thAvalluLithA madhAnDhaI:

udhyAnashAKhAmrugayUThapaIsthE

 

Oh Paaduka! It was just that moment, when You

developed a desire in mind that Lanka should be won,

that the monkey chiefs of Kishkinda-Your royal garden-had

accomplished the squeezing of the whole Lanka as if

t were a mere garland.

 

Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan (V.S):

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(1) Sri UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Oh Raaghava

PaadhukE ! Just about the time that you wanted to

conquer the kingdom of LankA , You came to know of

the effortless destruction of the city and its

occupants by Your Lord with the help of the powerful

monkey king and his army .The army crushed and threw

away LankA like destroying a flower garland . Hence ,

You desisted from Your effort to annihilate RaavaNA and

his beloved city .

 

(2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam: Oh PaadhukE !

Just as You turned Your attention to destroying

Ravanan and his city , You noticed that the monkey

army had already torn the city of Lanka into shreds

just as crushing a flower garland and casting it away.

The inner meaning is that the sishyan becomes a MahAn ,

the moment a SadAchAryan prays for His sishyan to acquire

auspicious attributes (sadhguNams).Such is the power of

SadAchArya anugraham .

 

(3) Swamy Desikan visualizes the nandhavanam (formal

garden) of the Raaghava Paadhukai , which is beautiful

to look at because of its flower-laden trees . There ,

he sees a group of monkeys ( SaakhA Mrugam:)with nonchalance

led by their leaders ( yUthapai:)tearing the flowers from

the branches , crushing them and throwing them away.

The crushing of the flowers is described with a evocative

Sanskrit word (luLithA ), which lets us visualize the pathetic

state of the crushed flowers lying on ground ...V.S