Padhuka Sahasram-336

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Sri:

 

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

 

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

 

336. DhanyaIsthvayi thridhasharakshakapAdharakshE!

puShpANi kAnchanamayAni samarpithAni

visramsinA vinamathO girishOtthamAngAth

AragvaDhEna milithAnyapruThagBhavanthi

 

Oh Paaduka! Rich and lucky people perform archana to You with flowers

of gold. They fall down as indistinguishable from the (similar

yellow-coloured) konrai flowers falling on You from the head of Siva

on his bowing to You.

 

Namo Narayana,

 

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

Speical Notes by V.SatakOpan (V.S): SlOkma 336

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(1) Abhinava Desika UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam:

Oh PaadhukE protecting the DevAs ! Those human beings ,

who are blessed to worship You with golden flowers (SvarNa

Pushpams) find that those flowers reach the head of SivA

prostrating before You and turn into golden Cassia flowers

(KonRai Pushpam).( Golden flowers also can denote golden

lotuses that blossom in the waters of AakAsa GangA . DevAs

might have access to this type of flower. Golden Cassis

flowers are the flowers that SivA enjoys the most .

Swamy Desikan points out that those who worship

the PaadhukAs with golden flowers enter the world of SivA

and become high personages (GaNams) in Siva Lokam.

 

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

before You , the golden colored KonRai pushpams fall on You.

There it lands on the gold flowers presented earlier

by the kings . One can not tell the difference between

the two yellow colored objects resting on You.

 

(3)Swamy Desikan says that the svarNa pushpams (Kaanchana-

mayAni PushpANi) presented by the wealthy ones(dhanyai:

samarpithAni) mingle with the golden yellow KonRai

flowers that slipped from the prostrating head of SivA

on the top of the Padhukais. There they stay together

in a state , where it is difficult to tell them apart

( AaragvadhEna kaanchana mayAni PushpANi milithAni

Santhi apruTakbhavanthi)...V.S