Padhuka Sahasram-502

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Sri:

 

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

 

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

 

502. AskandhanAni vibhuDhEndhrashiKhAmaNInAm

thvAmAshrithAnyasurasUdhanApAdharakshE!

rathnAni thE sthuthisuvarNaparIkshaNArThE

nUnam Bhajanthi nikaShOpalathAm kavInAm

 

Oh Paaduka of the Destroyer of th Asuras! When Deva chiefs bow, the

gems on You stamp on those of their crowns. Your gems are evidently

superior. Indeed they serve as the touchstone for assession the

purity (of gold as well as of a hymn and its alphabets).

 

Namo Narayana,

 

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

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

 

Slokam 502:

 

1) UthtamUr Swamy's anubhavam:Oh Paadhukai of the Lord destroying

asuras! When Devas wear You on their heads , the gems adorning You

sit over the gems enmeshed in their crowns. Your gems are far more

precious than the ones adorning the crowns of Devas. Hence I consider

that poetic works praising You are far superior to the sthuthis on

the Devas. This superiority is for two reasons: one, the touchstone

will authentically prove the superiority of the gems found on You

compared to those found on the crowns of the Devas. Second, there are

many kinds of eulogies included in my PaadhukA Sahasram such as

Rathna SaamAnyam , Bahu Rathnam , PadmarAgam , Pearl , Indraneelam ,

Maragatham et al . The sthuthi on the Devas is only of one kind.

Hence my sthuthi of You has the most incomparable lustre.

 

2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam: Oh PaadhukE! The splendid gems

adorning Your external surface attract the gems positioned on the

crowns of the DevAs (i.e).,the DevAs rush to the side of the

PaadhukAs for offering their salutations and sthuthi. How can one

know whether their eulogies are auspicous or not? The gems on Your

external surfaces serve as the inspecting stone ( urai kall). The

inner meaning is that the sthuthis about PerumAL and AchAryAs yield

MangaLam. Others about kings and humans are inauspicious to the

eulogizer and the eulogized.

 

3) Oh PaadhukE ! The gems on You pull the DevAs wearing gem-studded

crowns to Your side( VibhudhEndhra SikhA maNInAm ThvAm

aaskandhanAni). There are gems that are adorning Your external surface

( ThvAm aasrithAni RathnAni) that perform a duty. They sit in

judgement over the quality of Sthuthis by the DevAs and other poets

engaged in different types of eulogies and in this regard attain the

status of urai kall to judge the auspiciousness of individual efforts

( parIshaNArTE nikashOpalathAm bhajanthi).. (V.S).