ThiruvahIndhrapuram RathnAngi Series:Part 79: SlOkam 37-38 of Sri DevanAyaka PanchAsath

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SrI:

 

Dear BhakthAs of Lord Dhaiva Naayakan :

 

Thirty DSeventh SlOkam ( Salutations to The Udharam)

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peethAmBarENa parivAravathee sujAthA

dhAsyE nivEsayathi DevapathE dhrusou mE

vinyastha savya kara sangama jAyamAna

rOmAncha ramya kiraNA rasanA ThvadheeyA

 

General Meaning:

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Oh DevanAtha! The waist belt(MekalA) holding Your peethAmbharam

is beautiful to look at and the rays of light arising from it

spreads all around.When adiyEn looks at those rays, adiyEn

wonders whether these rays of light originate from the contact

of Your left hand with Your mEkalai and are expression of

the horripulation ( RomAnjali)experienced by the joyous

mEkalai. This mEkalai of Yours makes adiyEn's eyes

a slave of it.(Swamy Desikan visualizes the mEkalai as

a beautiful wife with natural humility of a girl born in

a revered kulam blushing and experiencing horripulations

(mayir KoocchukaL) as a result of the contact with her

husband's hand on her body).

 

Additional Comments:

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The mEklai is surrounded by the PeethAmbharam of

the Lord of ThiruvahIndhrapuram (peethAmbharENa

parivAravathee). That mEkalai is beautiful to

look at (SujAthA or born in a reverd kulam in

the case of the young bride).The Lord's left hand

comes in to contact with that mEkalai as He positions

His hand in a stylish pose during the sevai to

His devotees ( vinyastha savya kara sangama bhAvam).

That sparsam of the mEkali with the Lord's left hand

generates horripulations as it were to the mEkalai

(vinyastha savya kara sangama jAyamAn rOmAnja )

and sends out beautiful rays to express the thrill

from that experience ( rOmAnja ramya kiraNA ThavdheeyA

rasanA). The effect of those beautiful rays arising

from the rasanA (mEkali/ottiyANam) is to make adiyEn's

eyes its' slave (Thvadheeya rasanA mE dhrusou dAsyE

nivEsayathi).

 

SlOkam 36: (VarNanam of the Lord's Naabhi)

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sthreerathna kAraNam upAttha thrutheeyavarNam

dhaithyEndhra veerasayanam daythOpadhAnam

dEvEsa youna gajEndhra karaabhirAmam

ureekarOthi bhavadhUruyugam manO mE

 

General Meaning

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Oh Dhaiva NaayakA! PurANAs describe that the most beautiful

apsaras lady , Urvasi took her birth from Your thigh (i-e).,

You created her out of Your thighs. Vedam says that among

the four jaahtis ( Brahmins-KshathriyAs-VaisyAs-SudrAs) ,

the VaisyAs came out o Your thigh as well.PurANAs again

describe that Your thighs served as the heroic place of rest

(Veera PaLLi koLLum idam) for the Asuras ,Madhu and KaidabhA,

duirng Your avathAram as Lord HayagrIvan.They were placed there

and crushed to their death by You as punishment for stealing

VedAs from Brahma Devan. Your thighs also are the places of

enjoyable rest for the head of Your divine consorts .During those

occasions, Your strong thighs serve as pillows for their heads.

You are forever youthful (nithya yuvA). Your power as

a Nithya YuvA is like that of a young elephant full of strength .

Those thighs of Yours resemble the trunk of that youthful elephant

and pull my mind towards them and keeps my mind under

their influence .

 

Additional Comments:

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Lord DevanAthAn's thighs resembling the trunk of

a powerful , young elephant are linked to four events:

 

(1) It is the place of birth of the most beautiful apsaras

by the name of Urvasi . At BadrikAsramam , Lord NaarAyaNa

created Urvasi to charm those who came to distract Him

from His tapas. They came under her spell completely

and lost the purpose of their visit. Swamy Desikan

refers to this incident at BadrikAsramam (Nara-NaarAyaNa

avathAram ) and salutes that thigh of the Lord as

the reason for the birth of the gem among women

(Sthree rathna KaaraNam).

 

(2) Next Swamy Desikan salutes the thigh of the Lord

of ThiruvahIndhrapuram as the creator of the third

jAthi , VaisyAs ( Reference in Purusha Sookthm passage:

OorU tadhasya Yadh Vaisya:).Swamy Desikan refers to this

creation of VaisyAs by the Lord from His thighs during

Sarva Hutha Yj~nam as " upAttha thrutheeya varNam " .

 

(3) The Lord of Thiruayindhai sitting as SrI HayagrIvan

on top of the Oushada giri at ThiruvahIndhrapuram

destroyed the kings of AsurAs, Madhu and KaiDaban

by crushing them on His thigh. At that time, the Lord's

thigh served as the heroic death bed for the asurA kings

( DhaithrEndhriya veera sayanam).

 

(4) During His sportive moments with His Devis at His inner

chambers, Lord's thigh serves as the soft pillows for them

( DauyithA UpadhAnam).

 

Those thighs remind Swamy Desikan of the trunk of

a powerful young elephant ( Youvana gajEndhra kara

abhirAmam Bhavath OorU yugam) and he concedes that

those powerful thighs draw and overpowers his mind

( Bhavath OorU yugam mE mana: UrikarOthi).

 

In the 56th slOkam of SrI VaradarAja Sthavam ,

KurEsar describes the extraordinary and matchless

beauty of the Lord's thighs. Those thoughts are echoed in

Swamy Desikan's vivaraNam (description ) of the thighs

of Lord DevanAthan . The Lord has eternal youth

as Vedam points out: " yuvAakumAra: akumAra youvana sTitham " .

KurEsar states that the traditional comparisons of

the beauty of the Lord's thighs to (1)the trunk of

a beautiful Vaazhai maram ( SaarabhAja: rambhAsthambhA:),

(2)to a trunk ( thumbikkai) of a powerful elephant ( Karivara

KarA:) and (3)to emerald pillars ( kArabhA: maragatha

sthambhA:) are inadequate. KurEsar states that the compared

objects do not have the beauty of the Youthful Lord's

thighs and can not have the power of creating the world .

Swamy Desikan elaborates on these themes in his

salutation to the thighs of Lord DeavanAthan

of ThiruvahIndhrapuram.

 

NamO SrI DevanATAya,

Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan

 

P.S: May the Lord's beautiful Mekalai sending out

beautiful rays of jyOthi and the powerful

thighs of the ever youthful Lord of ThiruvahIndhrapuram

inspire you to join in His RathnAngi Kaimkaryam !