Padhuka Sahasram-201

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Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

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

 

201. pAdhapAdhupahruthA raGhUdhvahAdh

AlavAlamiva pITamAshrithA

aBhyaShEchi BhavathI tapODhanai:

pArijAthalathikEva pAdhukE!

 

Oh Paaduka! The Sages performed the abhisheka to You, who looked like

a Parijata creeper transplanted from the tree (Kalpaka) that Rama is,

onto the throne, which is a water-trench, so to say.

 

Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan(VS):

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

You are like the branch of PaarijAthA tree known as

RaamA. Great sages like VasishTA brought You from

ChithrakUtam and planted You in the fertile soil

known as the throne of the Raghus. Then, they fed You with

nutritous waters at the time of Your coronation bath and

nurtured You to become another PaarijAthA tree to fulfill

the wishes of all the people, who worshipped You .

 

(2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam: The inner meaning here

is that SadAchAryAs are like the wish-granting KalpakA tree.

 

(3) Here Swami Desikan compares the Padhukai to

the celestial Kalpakaa creeper , that grants all

the wishes that one prays for . The Sages performed

abhishEkam for that kalpakA tree sittIng on the throne

of the Raghu dynasty ( BhavathI PaarijAtha lathikEva

TapOdhanai: abhyashEchi). Swamy compares the simhAsanam

on which the PaadhukA was seated as " aalavAlam " or

the specially prepared soil with boundaries (Paatthi

in Tamil ).That Kalpa LathikA seated on the aalavAlam

of the simhAsanam was a branch of the kalpakA tree

that was RaamA ( RaghUdhvahAth paadhapAth upahrutha

AALAVaLAMIVA PEETAM AASRITHAA BHAVATHEE)...V.S