Padhuka Sahasram-285

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Sri:

 

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

 

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

 

285. thvathsanghamAnnanu sakrudhviDhisamprayukthA

shuDdhim parAmaDhijagAma shivathvahEthum

rangADhirAjapadharakshiNi! kIdrushI sA

gangA bhaBhUva BhavadhIyagathAgathEna

 

Oh Ranganatha Paaduka! When Brahma poured ablution water on the

Lord's

foot, bearing You, then too, the water came down as the Ganga; by

Your

contact, it became holy to make Siva holy too; what should have been

the added holiness to the Ganga because of the walks You had through

it, to and from, the forest?

 

Namo Narayana,

 

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

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

 

1)Sri Abhinava Desika UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam:

 

Oh RangarAja PaadhukE! When BrahmA washed Your Lord's ascending

feet as they approached His abode, He performed AarAdhanA to it.

The water associated with the Sri Paadham became sanctified and

those waters (Sacred GangA)were received by Paramasivan to purify

Him further. The waters of GangA held thus in His(Sivan's) matted

locks were released to Earth later and flowed through Utthara Kosalaa

nation. When Lord RanganAthA incarnated as RaamA and crossed GangA

back and forth, She got doubly sanctified. Swami Desikan hints here

that the PaadhukA theertham ( water used for the bathing of the

Paadhukais) of AchAryAs is more powerful than the waters of GangA

originating from the Thirumanjanam of the Lord's Paadham by Brahma

Devan.

 

2) Srimath PeriyANdavan's anubhavam: During ThrivikramAvathAram ,

BrahmA served paadhyam ( Water for washing the Lord's foot as one of

the rites of AarAdhanam ) . That landed on the jatai (matted locks)

of

Lord Sivan . Prior to that sambhandham with the PaadhOdhakam ,

He was Sivan by name only ; now , He became Sivan ( most auspicious)

by meaning as well. That was the power of sanctification of Your

Padha theertham , which Is GangA pravAham . That Gangai had

the sambhndahm of Sri RanganAthAvathAra Raamachandran , when

He crossed Gangai twice . How much more sanctity has Gangai acquired

now is clear for all.

 

3) Oh RangAdhraaja Padha RakshiNi! Brahma washed the Lord's thiruvadi

once ( sakruth) and made the sambhandham of the Lord's Foot with

Gangai (sakruth samprayukthA). That Sangamam (association) made Her

and LordSivan supremely sanctified (Sivathva hEthum parAm suddhim

adhijagAma). As Lord RamachandrA crossed you in the subsequent

RaamaavathAram and related to You through the observance of His

anushtAnams with Your waters , Your sanctity multiplied many folds

….(V.S).