Padhuka Sahasram-790

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Sri:

 

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

 

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

 

790. maDhyE krushAmuBhayatha: prathipannavruDdhim

manyE samIkshya BhavathIm maNipAdharakshE!

nithyam mukundhapadhasanghamaviprayOgoU

nischinvathE kruthaDhiya: suKhadhuKhakAShTAm

 

Oh Paaduka! You are narrow in the middle, but wider on either side

i.e. front and rear. This is attributed by knowledgable scholars, to

the impressive contact with the Lord's Foot on either sides but lack

of such contact in the middle. As has been said, well-being is

defined God-contact and suffering, the loss of contact with God.

 

Namo Narayana,

 

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

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

 

SlOkam 790

 

1) UthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Oh MaNi PaadhukE! adiyEn concludes that

the learned scholars intrepret correctly that Your mid-portion is

slender and the front and back portions are ample. They connect that

slendereness to sorrow in not having the intimate connection with

Your Lord's feet; likewise,they relate the ample dimensions of Your

front and back to the strong imprint of Your Lord's feet in those

regions.

 

The seperation and association with the Lord's feet at the diffferent

sections of the PaadhukAs are connected to the leanness born out of

sorrow and the healthy ampleness arising from the joy of intimate

contact. Lord's feet has the shape of the shell of tortoise according

to the texts of beauty . Therefore , the mid-portion of His feet are

elevated and do not come in to contact with the waist region of

the PaadhukAs. On the other hand, the weight of the Lord's body is

distributed throughout the front and hind portions of His feet ,

which in turn come in to intimate contact with the upper and lower

portions of th PaadhukAs.

 

2) SrImath Andavan's anubhavam:Oh PaadhukE! Scholars have concluded

that the happiness of intimate contact of Your Lord's feet in the

front and back regions of Your form has created ampleness. The mid

region however is slender as though it is an outcome of sorrow from

lack of intimate contact there with Your Lord's feet.

 

3) VidhvAns( kruthadhiya:) analyze that Your robust form in the front

as well as back ( ubhayatha: prathipanna vruddhim) and the slender

form in Your mid region (madhyE krusAm) is due to the happy and

sorrowful moods experienced by these respective regions from the

ample contact or otherwise with the Lord's feet. Ampleness comes form

the intimate union with the Lord's feet (Padha sangam).

Slenderness arises from the lack of such intimate contact ( Vipra

yOgam). This heights in happiness and sorrow indicated by ampleness

and slenderness are linked by VidhvAns to intimate contact in the

front and back and lack of it in the middle region of Your body (

Sukha Dukkha kAshDAm niscchinvathE)...(V.S)