Padhuka Sahasram-726

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Sri:

 

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

 

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

 

726. svacChAkArAm surayuvathaya: svaprathicChandhalakshyAth

gAhanthE thvAm praNathisamayE pAdhukE! sABhimAnA:

sthrIrathnAnAm pariBhavaviDhoU sruShtimAthrENa dhakshAm

nIchaI: karthum narasaKhamunErUrvashImUrujAthAm

 

Oh Paaduka! The divine damsel Urvashi, born form the thigh of

Narayana-muni used to haughtily tease all other women-folk on this

score, But the others have an opportunity of hitting back: they enter

into You by being reflected on Your lustrous clear surface. They

would say: You were once born from the Lord's thigh. But we have the

previlege of entering into and leaving from the Lord's Paaduka

whenever we like!

 

Namo Narayana,

 

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

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

 

SlOakm 726

 

1) UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Following the above slOkams

dealing with the reflections of DEvAs , Swamy Desikan shifts

his attention now to the reflections of the wives of the dEvAs

seen on the gems of the Paadhukais. He says: " Oh PaadhukE!

The most beautiful Urvasi was created by NaarAyaNa Muni from

His thigh to humiliate RambhA , who came to destroy His penance.

After seeing the beauty of Urvasi , RambhA recognized that her

beauty was no match to Uravsi's and ran away. Urvasi thus helped

NaarAyaNa Muni , the friend of NarA. She however did not originate

from the most beautiful limb of the Sage. Now , the wives of DevAs

wishing to conquer the beauty of Urvasi bow to You . At that time,

their images are reflected on Your gems and look as though they

were born anew with exquisitely beautiful bodies. Their hopes of

entering Your blemishless body to attain blemishless beauty therby

seems to have been realized ; further , their new body originates

from You and gives them high status compared to Urvasi , who

originated from a lowly thigh of a holy Muni.

 

2)The apsaras ladies (deva sthree:/Sura Yuvathaya:)

did not foreget the humilation that they underwent ,

when they went to disturb the penanace of SrI NaarAyaNa

Rishi at BadrikAsramam ( Sura Yuvathaya: saabhimAnA:).

NaarAyana Rishi , The friend of Naran created the most

beautiful apsaras woman from his thigh (UrujAthA Urvasi)

to show how low was the beauty represented by RambhA

and others , who came to disturb his penance and

humiliated the assembly of apsaras headed by RambhA

through the mere creation of Urvasi ( Sura Yuvathaya:

SaabhimAnA: SthreerathnAm paribhava-vidhou

srushtimAthrENa dakshAm Urvaseem chinthayithvA).

The humiliated women did not ever forget that and

wanted to reduce the beauty of Urvasi compared to

them( srushtimAthrENa dakshAm UrujAthAm Urvaseem

neechai karthum icchantha:) . How did they plan to

achieve this goal ? They tried to enter Your (PaadhukA's)

shiny body (Svaccha aakAram) during the time of their

prostration (ThvAm praNithasamayE)before You through

their reflections on You ( Svaprathicchandha lakshyAth

gaahanthE)...(V.S).