Padhuka Sahasram-317

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Sri:

 

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

 

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

 

317. thiThiraShtamI yadhavathAravaIBhavAth

praThamA thiThisthrijagathAmajAyatha

maNipAdhukE! thamupanIya vIThikAsu

athiThIkarOShi thadhananyachakshuShAm

 

Oh Manipaaduka! Ashtami Tithi became most important Tithi for all

worlds, once Lord Krishna took His birth in Ashtami. When He in

Ranganatha form, proceeds through the streets, He becomes a welcome

Atithi (guest), for the Paramaikantis who regard Him as all for them.

You do this favour to the devotees.

 

Namo Narayana,

 

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

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

 

Oh PaadhukE ! KrishNA made the eighth day of KrishNa

paksham of SimhA month as the most holy one. That thithi

is known as JanmAshtami to celebrate His avathAram .

It became hence the holiest thithi in all the three worlds .

Oh Lord's PaadhukE ! You carry that supreme Lord

around the by lanes and raaja veethis of Srirangam

and become the athithi of His devotees. They will not look with

admiration at anyone except Him . " Here ,

Swami Desikan uses the word " Thithi " and " athithi

in a clear way. Athithi can mean either dateless or

guest. He says here that the Lord's PaadhukAs

become the welcome guest of His devotees through

the kaimkaryam to the Lord , who made ashtami

thithi the first among the thithis because of its link to

His avathAram . The devotees honor the Paadhukais

as athithi because of their kaimkaryam to the Lord

born on an ashtami thithi.

 

Srimath Andavan's anubhavam : PerumAL incarnated

as KrishNA on an Ashtami thithi . Ashtami means eight

and yet it became Prathamai ( first ) because of our Lord's

avathAram on an Ashtami thithi. Therefore PerumAL has

connections to both Prathamai and Ashtami. Oh PaadhukE !

You have also made Him athithi ( the One who has come to

One place from another ) . As a result of His sanchAram

with You , He has come from His AasthAnam to the streets

of Srirangam and has become an athithi.

 

(3)This is a beautiful slOkam , where Swamy Desikan

pays tribute to the Vaibhavam of the sacred birth of the Lord

on an Ashtami thithi : " Ashtami thithi: yadh avathAra

vaibhavAth thrijagadhAm prathamA thithi: ajAyatha " .

That Lord is brought onto the streets of Srirangam on

the back of Paadhukais and is made athithI ( the object of attention )

for ananya chakshu: ( for those , who do not see any one or anything

other than the Lord)… V.S