Padhuka Shasram-368

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Sri:

 

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

 

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

 

368. gangapagAthatalathAgruhamAshrayanthyA:

pAdhAvani! prachalitham padhavIrajasthE

prAyENa pAvanathamam praNathasya shamBhO:

udDhULanam kimapi nUthanamAthanOthi

 

Oh Paaduka! When You walk on the banks of the Ganga to reach a

cottage of creepers, You generate a lot of dust on the way that

becomes a novel powder for body-application for sanctification to

Siva, who stands with bent head to You.

 

Namo Narayana,

 

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

Special Notes from V.SatakOpan (V.S):SlOkam 368

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(1)Sri UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam:

Oh PaadhukE! When RaamA travelled on the banks of

GangA to reach His temporary abode decorated with

flowering creepers , lot of dust was raised by you

because of His rapid strides. Sambhu , who normally

smears His body with ashes from the cremation ground ,

now took that dust sanctified by Your sambhnadham and

smeared his body .The dust associated with You removed

the dhOshams from the earlier smearing of the ash from

the impure cremation ground.

 

(2)Here another kind of sanchAram on the banks of yet

another river by the Lord is visualized. Lord Raama

was travelling on the banks of GangA river during

His vana vaasam.Sambhu collected the dusts arising

from His paadhukais and smeared them on His body

for purification .It was an unusual kind of dust

(Kimapi Noothanam UddhULanam)for Sambhu compared to

His normal dust collected from burning grounds..(V.S).