ThiruvahIndhrapuram RathnAngi Series:Part 81: SlOkams 41-42 of Sri DevanAyaka PanchAsath

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SrI:

 

Dear BhakthAs of Lord Dhaiva Naayakan :

We will enjoy the beauty and the power of

the ThiruvadigaL of Lord DhaivanAyakan today.

 

Fourty First SlOkam ( Salutations to The Lord's Thiruvadi)

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PaashAna nirmitha tapOdhana dharmadhAram

bhasmanupAhitha narEndra KumAra bhAvam

samvAhitham Thridasa nATa RamA-MaheebhyAM

SaamAnya dhaivatham usanthi padham Thvadheeyam

 

General Meaning:

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Oh DhaivanAyakA! The power of Your sacred feet are

limitless. During RaamAvathAram , they restored life

to the wife of Sage Gouthama , who was existing as a stone

by the road side due to her husband's curse over her

marital infidelity. The contact with the dust from Your

sacred feet cleansed her of all the sins and returned her to

erstwhle status as the revered wife of a great sage.

During KrishnAvathAram , AsvatthAma vowed to kill even

the embryo of the last of the PaaNDavAs and sent

a powerful arrow named ApaaNDava asthram to the

womb of Uttharai , who was carrying the seed of

PaaNDavAs. That asthram burnt the live embryo and

reduced it to ashes. As the dearest friend of PaaNDavAs,

You entered the womb of Queen Utthirai and through

Your paadha sparsam restored that assembly of ashes

in to a living child, which became King Parikshith

later and protected the lineage of PaaNDavAs from

disappearance . SrI Devi and BhUmi DEvi affectionately

press those mysterious and powerful ThiruvadigaLs

of Yours . The learned ones praise those ThiruvadigaLs,

which have the power to bring back to life stone and

ash and recognize that Your ThiruvadigaLs are

the common property of all the sentient beings.

 

Additional Comments:

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Our Lord's ThiruvadigaL have limitless power to

cause miracles. One of them is AhalyA Saapa VimOchanam.

AhalyA was staying as a stone (PaashAnam). Lord Raamachandran's

Paadha rENu came in to contact with AhalyA resting as

a stone by the way side and restored her back to

her former human form as the the SahadharamchAriNi of

the Sage Gouthama ( PaashaNa nirmitha TapOdhana dharma

dhAram). During the KrishNAvathAram , those Thiruvadis

created a young PaaNDava prince from the ashes resting

in the womb of a PaanDava queen ( Bhasmani upAhitha

NarEndra KumAra BhAvam). Those sacred Thiruvadigal

Jumped on the hoods of the Serpent KaaLingan. They

roamed the DaNDakA forests in search of SitA PirAtti.

They got tired. Therefore Both SrI Devi and BhU DEvi

are pressing those sacred feet with their gentle hands

to remove the aches and pains of thos ThiruvadigaLs of

the Lord. During Thrivikrama avathAram , the very same

sacred feet shot up and measured the earth and heaven .

Those sacred feet blessed every jeevan and devAs with

the Paadha Sparsam . All of the people of the word

got sanctified with the sparsam (touch ) of

those Paadhams , which became the wealth of all (Thvadheeyam

Padham SaamAnya Dhaivatham bhabhUva). This is the view of

all learned ones says Swamy Desikan.

 

SlOkam 42: (VarNanam of the Lord's fingers of the feet)

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avarjithApi:anushajya nijAmsu jAlai:

DevEsa dhivya Padha Padhma dhaLAyithAbhi:

anyAbhilAsha parilOlamidham madheeyam

angIkrutham hrudhayamanguLibhi: svayam tE

 

General Meaning

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Oh Dhaiva NaayakA! the fingers on Your Thiruvadis

are slightly bent and are beautiful to look at.

One wonders whether they are slightly bent because

of the weight of the lustre that they have to bear.

Your fingers of the feet and toes are soft and are

red like the petals of the lotus flower. They have

charmed my mind with their beauty and have kept my

mind under their control . Prior to their power of

vaseekaraNam , my mind was wandering restlessly

after all worldly objects .

 

Additional Comments:

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The beauty and power of the anguLis ( fingers of

the feet) of Lord DeavanATan are saluted in this

slOkam. Swamy Desikan confesses that his heart was

lusting after all kinds of non-lasting pleasures

( madheeyam idham hrudhayam anya abhilAsha

parilOlam) until it had the blessings of the Sevai of

the soft and beautiful toes of the Thiruvadis of

the Lord of Thiruvayindhai.Those fingers of the feet of

the Lord are slightly bent inward as if they have been

influenced by the assembly of the brillinat rays emanting

from the nails of the Lord ( nija amsu jaalai: anushajya

aavarjithAbhi: iva). Those fingers of the feet appear like

the petals of the soft and beautiful red Lotus. Here the Lord's

Thiruvadi is compared to the tender and beautiful-to-behold

red lotus and the fingers of the Thiruvadi are compared to

the petals of that red lotus.

 

NamO SrI DevanATAya,

Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan

 

P.S: May Lord DevanAthan's beautiful ThiruvadikaL that

inspired Swamy Desikan inspire You all as well

to join in Lord Devanathan's RathnAngi Kaimkaryam !