Padhuka Sahasram-207

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Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

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

 

207. dhiviShadhanuviDhEyam dhevi! rAjyABhiShEkam

Bharatha iva yadhi thvam pAdhukE! nAnvamamsThA:

kaThamiva raGhuvIra: kalpayEdhalpayathna:

thrichathurasharapAthaIsthAdhrusham dhEvakAryam

 

Oh Paaduka Devi! Bharata caused the coronation to be conducted as a

model for even devas to follow. Had You only not agreed to have it-as

Bharata did-how could Sri Rama achieve the effortlessly-achieved goal

of the devas (that is Ravana's killing), He having felled the enemy

with just three or four arrows?

 

Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan (VS):

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

If You had refused to accept Your coronation like

BharathA , How then could RaamA have destroyed

the three sets of RaakshasAs ( Kara-DhUshaNA ,

KumbhakarNA and RaavaNA ) with just three or four

sets of arrows and thereby fulfilled His pledge

to the DevAs that he would rescue them from

the terrors caused by those Raakshasaas ?

 

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

Had You not agreed to accept the PattAbhishEkam

enjoyed by the DevAs , how could RaamA have

fulfilled His avathAra kaaryam intended to put an

end to the sufferings of the DevAs at RaavaNA's

hands? The inner meaning is that a SadAchAryan

removes all the dhOshams of a Jeevan and then PerumAL

invites the Jeevan to His side. If the SadAchAryan

had not removed the dhOshams and prepared the Jeevans,

PerumAl could not grant Moksham for those Jeevans.

 

(3) Here Swamy Desikan stresses the key role

played by the Paadhukais through the acceptance of

the coronation unlike BharathA , who refused

the throne and pattAbhishEkam . Had PaadhukA

rejected the pattAbhishEkam like BharathA,

then Raghuveeran's avathAra kaaryam would

have been impacted. Since Paadhukais accepted

the proposed pattAbhishEkam , VeerarAghavan

could go ahead and destroy almost effortlessly

RaavaNA and his entourage with just three or

four arrows (alpa yathnasman , Raghuveera:

thrichathura sara paathai: dEva kaaryam

kalpayEth )...V.S