Padhuka Sahsaram-376

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Sri:

 

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

 

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

 

376. rajanivigamakAlE rAmagAThAm paTantha:

kushikathanayamuKhyA: pAdhukE! BhAvayanthE

upalashakalasakthaIsthvathparAgaIrakAndE

janithamunikaLathrAn dhaNdakAraNyaBhAgAn

 

Oh Paaduka! Sages like Viswamitra recite, in pre-dawn hours every

day, the hymns in praise of Rama, and then recall in their minds, the

Dandaka forest regions wherein the event of Your dust suddenly

generating Gowtama's wife had occured and they contemplate on it.

 

Namo Narayana,

 

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

Special Notes from V.SatakOpan(V.S): SlOkam 376

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(1) Sri UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Oh PaadhukE!

Sage VsvAmithrA and his peers recite during the dawn

time the incident at DaNdakAraNyam related the miracle

of AhalyA transforming from the existence as a stone

to that of a soft-limbed wife of Sage GauthamA. Even

when they have moved away from DaNdakAraNyam , the sages

frondly recall this inspiring incident about the power

of the dust associated with You in their new aasramams

at the Snowy HimAlayAs.

 

(2)Oh PaadukE! The minds of Sage VisvAmithrA

and his peers ( Kusikatanaya mukhyA:) reflect

on Your Lord, Sri Raamachandran's subha charithram at

the time of dawn ( rajani vigama kaalE Raama-gATAm

padantha:) . They get deeply attached to Your

Lord's sanchArams at DaNdakAraNyam , when the dust

from You transformed AhalyA from her stony state of

existence to that of the beautiful and chaste pathni

of Sage GauthamA again...(V.S).