ThiruvahIndhrapuram RathnAngi Series:Part 72: SlOkam 23-24 of Sri DevanAyaka PanchAsath

[Guest guest]

SrI:

 

Dear BhakthAs of Lord Dhaiva Naayakan :

 

Twenty third SlOkam ( The Beauty of the Lord's Brows)

****************************************************

nEthum sarOja vasathir-nijamAdhirAjyam

nithyam nisAmayathi DevapathE bhruvou tE

yEvam na chEdh akila janthu vimOhanArhaa

kim mAthrukA bhavathi kAmasarAsanasya

 

Extended Meaning

*****************

Oh Lord of the DevAs! You commanded Your son ,

Brahma dEvan to engage in the act of creation.

For execution of these assigned responsibilities ,

Brahma looks every second at the movement of Your

brows to get the clue about the successive steps of

creation .This frequent darsanam of Your bow-like

eye brows gives BrahmA the confidence to create

Manmathan's beautiful bow. Since the beauty of Your

brows captivates and enchants all , BrahmA uses it

as a model to create Manmathan's bow used by him

to enchant the people of the world . If BrahmA did not

have the benefit of looking at Your beautiful brows,

where would BrahmA have gotten the inspiration to create

the bow of Manmathan? Nothing but Your most charming

eye brows could qualify to become the MathrukA

( the primary model/mold )for the bow of Manmathan.

 

Additional Comments:

*********************

The question that Swamy Desikan asks is: " Kim mathrukA

Kaama sarAsanasya? " ( What vasthu would have served as

the model for creation of the Sugarcane bow of ManmathA?)

and answers that the matchless beauty and the perfect

shape of the Lord's eye brows alone prempted every other

contender to inspire BrahmA .Those brows of the Lord

of ThiruvahIndhrapuram transfer the power of enchanting

the beings of the world and through their power confer

on ManmathA's bow the power to become effective in its

duties (Sthree-Purusha VaseekaraNam).

 

 

SlOkam 24: (The Beauty of the Lord's Eyes)

****************************************

aalakshya satthvam athivEla dayOttharangam

abhyarTinAm abhimatha prathipAdhanArham

snigdhAyatham praTimasAli Suparva nATa

dugdhAmbhudhE: anukarOthi vilOchanam tE

 

Extended Meaning

*****************

Oh Lord DhaivanAyakA! Your most beautiful eyes

remind adiyEn of the Milky Ocean , which is full of

acquatic animals. The waves of Milky Ocean break

ceaselessly at the banks gently.People One can obtain

all one want from those auspicious waves. Those waves are

wide in area and extend over long distances. Your

captivating eyes have all these features of the waves

of the Milky Ocean . Your eyes are full of benovolence

and limitless DayA.The glances originating from

those eyes gives all the boons that one desires.

Those eyes are extended all the way to Your ears and

are wide.

 

Additional Comments:

********************

Swamy Desikan uses the double meanings of

two words ( Satthva and Snigdha) to achieve

the comparison between the Lord's dayA-filled

eyes with that of the Milky Ocean. Swamy starts

the comparison with the choice word " Aalakshya Satthvam " .

This can mean either filled with satthva guNam in those eyes

( for the Lord) or filled with many acquatic animals

(for the Milky Ocean). Next , Swamy uses the prayOgam of

" Snigdha vilOchanam " . Here the word " Snigdha " can mean

friendly and welcoming ( for the Lord's eyes) or beautiful

(in the case of the Milky Ocean). Rest of the descriptions

about the Lord's eyes are equally alluring :

 

(1) athivEla DayOttharAngam: The Ocean with ceaseless

waves of DayA breaking on its shores (Vide: Daya Sathakam

for Swamy Desikan's celebration of the DayA guNam of

the Lord).

 

(2) AbhyarTinAm abhimatha prathipAdhana arham: Like a Kalpaka

tree fit to grant any boon that the devotee seeks (Here

the Lord DevanAthan's oudhAryam/generosity is hailed).

 

(3) Snigdham aayatham prathimasAli tE VilOchanam : Here ,

the salutation to the eyes of the Lord , which are

full of Vaathsalyam at seeing His bhakthan ; they

are long stretching from ear to ear and wide so

that they do not miss any thing.

 

Swamy concludes on this basis of comparsion that

the Lord's auspicious eyes are very much like

the milky ocean on which He rests( tE vilOchanam

dhugdha ambhudhE: anukarOthi).

 

NamO SrI DevanATAya,

Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan

 

P.S: May those beautiful and Vaathsalyam-filled

eyes of the Lord of ThiruvahIndhrapuram look

at You and inspire you to join in His Kaimkaryam.