ThiruvahIndhrapuram RathnAngi Series:Part 82: SlOkams 43-44 of Sri DevanAyaka PanchAsath

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SrI:

 

Fourty Third SlOkam ( Salutations to The Lord's Thiruvadi nails)

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pankAnyasou mama nihanthi mahas-tarangai:

GangAdhikam vidhadhathee Garuda Sravantheem

nAkoukasAm maNi kirIda ganairupAsya

NaaTa Thvadheeya PadhayOr-nakha rathna pankthi:

 

General Meaning:

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Oh DevanATA! The GangA pravAham generated from Your Thiruvadi

had sambhandham with Your sacred nails of the toes only at

the time of its birth. The Garuda nadhi ( called Gedilam

today) has the sambhandham with the nails of Your ThiruvadigaL

at all times since it washes Your Thiruvadigal always.

Thus Garuda Nadhi has a far superior vaibhavam compared

to GangA Nadhi, which had limited time links to Your sacred

feet .Garuda Nadhi's superior glories arose out of association

with Your Thiruvadi nails at all times at ThiruvahIndhrapuram.

Further, the DevAs living in Svarga lOkam prostrate before You

with their crowned heads . The matchless lustre of Your

toe nails fall on the gems of their crowns at that time

and enhances the lustre of the gems in their crowns.

The rays from Your radiant toe nails with such vaibhavam

fall on the mud of my profound sins and destroy them totally.

 

Additional Comments:

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The sacred river GangA took its birth from the ThiruvadikaL

of Thrivikraman , when Brahma Devan washed them with the waters

from His Kamandalu. Once the river left the Lord's feet

and flowed downwards to earth , it had no more physical

contact with the Lord's ThiruvaigaL or their toe nails .

garuda nadhi was created , when Garuda BhagavAn used his

powerful beak to tear the earth to produce the water to

quench the thirst of Lord DevanAthan. That water flows

even today in the cleft right next to the temple as

Garuda Nadhi. This river washes the Thiruvadigal of the Lord

as it flows and the Lord's toe nails also recieve Thirumanjanam

without let. Thus Garuda Nadhi is superior to Ganga in

having nithya sambhandham with the Lord's Thiruvadi nakhangaL.

Swamy Desikan states that the JyOthi of the nails destroys his

sins as they fall on the huge bundle of sins justlike

a powerful laser evaporates the material on which it is focused.

 

SlOkam 44: (VarNanam of the Lord's fingers of the feet)

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Vajra dhvajAnkusa sudhA kalsAthapathra

kalpa-dhrumAmbhuruha tOraNa sankha-chakrai:

mathsayasyAdhibhisccha ViBudhEswara maNDitham tE

maanyam padham bhavathu mouLi vibhUshanam Na:

 

General Meaning

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Oh DhaivanAyakA! The souls of Your Sacred feet display

the PurushOtthama LakshaNams: Marks of VajrAyudham ,

Dhvajam/flag, ankusam/elephant goad, amrutha kalasam,

umbrella , karpaka vruksham , Lotus flower, festoons/

ThOranam , Sankhu , Chakram and fish.May those ThiruvadigaL

dear to BrahmA and DevAs and eulogized by them with reverence

stay on our heads as sirObhUshaNam and sanctify them.

 

Additional Comments:

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Swamy Desikan prays: " ViBhudhEswara! Maanyam tE

padham na: mouLi vibhUshaNam bahavathu " ( May Your

revered Thiruvadigal become the sirObhUshanam for us!).

He lists all insignia found on the souls befitting

His sTAnam as the PurushOtthaman.Swamy Desikan

points out all of these PurushOtthama Chihnams

are tightly clustered (manDitham) in the soul of

the Supreme Lord giving us Sevai at Thiruvayindhai.

Swamy Desikan salutes once more the ThiruvadigaL

of Lord DevanAthan through this slOkam.The pramANam

for the power of ThiruvadigaL of the Lord in aasritha

rakshanam is:

 

dhurAchArOpi sarvAsee krudhagnO nAsthika: purA

samAsrayEth AadhidEvam SaraNyam SaraNam yadhi

nirdhOsham vidhdi tamm janthum prabhAvAth ParamAthmana:

 

(meaning): One could have been a DhurAchAran ( performer of

deeds prohibited by SaasthrAs) , bearing the wealth of all

sins , ungrateful towards those who helped him ,

naasthikan before . Once that pitiable and unfortunate

jeevan seeks sole refuge at the Lord's sacred feet

as Sarva Loka saraNyan , then that jeevan is freed

from all dhOshams through the power of the Lord's

Thiruvadi. BhaggavAn Kaalai ghettiyAha piditthu koNDu

vittAl, AvanAl anth ajeevanai uthara mudiyAthu.

KaatthE theera vENum yenpathu namathu siddhAntham

( Once a Jevan holds tight the Lord's feet as

the sole refuge with MahA VisvAsam, Lord can not shake that

jeevan away and abandon him. The vratham of our Lord is

to protect that jeevan without fail).

 

NamO SrI DevanATAya,

Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan

 

P.S: May Lord DevanAthan's beautiful ThiruvadikaL

and their nails that forever held Swamy Desikan in

their debt inspire You all as well to join in Lord Devanathan's

RathnAngi Kaimkaryam !