Padhuka Sahasram-596

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Sri:

 

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

 

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

 

596. sampadhyathE thava padhAvani! padhmarAgaI:

prasThAnamAngaLikahOmahuthAshanashrI:

kshIrAhuthirBhavathi yathra vikalpaganga

rangEshvarasya ruchirA naKharashmiDhAra

 

Oh Paaduka! As Lord Ranganatha is on an outing, a Homa for auspices

is perhaps being performed. You with padmaraga gems become the fire;

the stream of white flow-like milk-of the halo of rows of nails in

the Lord's Feet, becomes the Ahuti, perhaps another Ganga river,

since this also flows out of the Lord's Feet.

 

Namo Narayana,

 

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

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

 

SlOkam 596

 

1) UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Here Swamy Desikan compares

the effulgence of the rubies to that of the sacred flames of a

sacrifice in which milk is poured as the oblation . He compares the

glow of rubies to that of Agni used in the Vedic sacrifices. He

draws an analogy between the milk and the white effulgence of the

Lord's toe nails . He wonders whether the white milk--like flow from

the Lord's toe nails is the flow of GangA rushing out of the nails.

 

2) SrImath Andavan's anubhavam: Oh PaadhukE ! The red rubie are

enmeshed on You . The red lustre of the rubies mixes with the white

lustre of the toe nails of the Lord . This admixture seems like the

Lord performing homam with milk in the red jwAlais of Your rubies

during the time of His sanchAram .

 

3) There is a homam known as PrasTAna MaangaLika Homam that

Is performed prior to sanchArams. When Lord does this hOmam prior to

His travels (vijaya YaathrAs) , the red rubies with their lustre

heighten the effulgence (shObai) of the Agni ( PadmarAgai: SrI:

sampadhyathE ). In that Agni , the flow of the white lustre of the

toe nails of the Lord (RangEswarasya nakha rasmi dhArA ) , is like

the offering of milk ( KshIrAhuthi: )…(V.S).