Padhuka Sahasram-211

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Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

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

 

211. aBhiShEkOthsavAth thasmAth yasyA niryAthanOthsava:

athyarichyatha thAm vandhE BhavyAm BharathadhevathAm

 

I pay homage to that Paaduka, the Deity of Bharata,

the auspicousness-conferring Deity, whose Restoration-festival

(of being returned to Rama's Feet) was more

grand than the coronation festival.

 

Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan (VS):

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(1) Sri UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: " I bow unto

the PaadhukAs -the object of worship of BharathA -

whose reunion with the Lord's holy feet was even

more worthy of celebration than its coronation

festival. " Here Swamy Desikan begins to celebrate

the union of the Paadhukais with the Lord's sacred

feet as a great festival. He hints that the PaadhukAs

were longing for such a reunion to resume their

traditional role .

 

(2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam: This paddhathi

is about the reunion of the SatAri with Lord

Raamachandran's feet after foutrten years of

separtion from them . BharathA presented the Paathukais

to his elder brother and it was a festival like

occasion. That uthsavam was even greater than

the earlier pattAbhishEka uthsavam that Bharathan

arranged .The inner meaning is that Naatha Muni

performed prahtishtai for NammAzhwAr in many

dhivya dEsams. The beauty of such prathishtA

uthsavam could not excell the beauty of NammAzhwAr's

service to the Lord as His Thiruvadi.

 

(3) Swamy Desikan compares two uthsavams here:

(a) pattAbhishEka Uthsavam (b)niryAtanA uthsavam

Latter was the festival of returning the Paadhukais

to the owner , Lord Raamachandran. Swamy says that

the latter uthsavam was far suprior to the former

( niryAthanA uthsava: athyarichyatha )..VS