Padhuka Sahasram-194

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Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

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

 

194. ahnAya rAmavirahAth pariKhinnavrutthE:

AshvAsanAya BhavatI maNipAdharakshE!

teerThABhiShEkamapadhishya vasunDharAyA:

chakrE thadhA samuchitham shishirOpachAram

 

Oh Paaduka! The land suffered the separation from Rama;

Bharata too did not accept the throne; You presumably

wished to render a cooling service to relieve this

grief of the land. You therefore, adopted the coronation

abolution ritual as a pretext so that the land, the people,

could get so soothening a relief from the waters of abolution

that will not be available by any other process.

 

Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

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

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(1) Sri UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Oh PaadhukE!

You were not keen on having the coronation bath .

Mother Earth however was suffering from the heat

of separation from Raamaa at that time. This was when

BharathA had asked for Your return to AyOdhyA to rule

over this earth in RaamA's name . You looked at Mother

Earth and recognized that Her suffering and anguish

can not be sustained for another fourteen years, until

RaamA returned from His vana Vaasam to take over

the reins of the kingdom. Therefore, You decided

to accept the coronation bath , the waters of which

quenched the heat and reduced the suffering of

the ailing Mohter Earth.

 

(2)Oh PaadhukE ! You used the excuse of PattAbhishEkam

to remove the sorrow of Bhumi dEvi resulting from Her

separation from RaamA . For this purpose , you performed

cool upachArams for Her . The inner meaning is that

the nithya sooris and PerumAl descend on this earth

only for the benefit of the citizens of the world .

 

(3) Swamy Desikan points out that the Paadhukais

performed appropriate , cooling upachArAms (Samuchitham

sisirOpachAram chakrE ) such as the moistenig of

the earth with the cool waters of PattAbhishEkam.

This led to the comforting (AasvAsanam ) of

VasundharA ( Bhumi PirAtti) , who was suffering

from the pangs of separation from RaamA ( Raama-virahaath

parikhinna vrutthE: VasundharAyaa: aasvAsanam).The coronation

and the abolution with the sacred waters was an excuse

for the cooling upachArams (abhishEkam apadhisya

samuchitham sisirOpachAram )done for reducing

the thApam of VasundharA....V.S