Padhuka Sahasram-876

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Sri:

 

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

 

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

 

876. unnatham balivirODhinasthadhA pAdhukE! padhasarOjamAshrithA

moUkthikasthabakamaDhyasammitham vyOma ShadpadhathulAmalamBhaya:

 

Oh Paaduka! When the Lord took the form of Trivikrama to quell Bali,

it was a mammoth size; the foot at the top was a vast limb; the

Paaduka too was of an enormously broad area; then Your bunches of

pearls looked like flower-bunches. Like the dark blue beetles that

hover between flowers, the whole sky was caught between bunches of

flower-like pearls!

 

Namo Narayana,

 

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan(V.S)

 

SlOkam 876

 

1) UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Swamy Desikan points out that the

PaadhukAs can also take a gigantic and miniature form referred to in

the previous verse. Swamy says: " Oh PaadhukE! When MahA Bali became

the enemy of the DevAs, Your Lord became His enemy. He took

the incarnation of Thrivikrama and grew to occupy the earth and the

sky. In the sky, You grew with Him and Your rows of pearls looked

like a huge bunch of white flowers on which the blue sky sat as the

bees on that flower bunch " . The gigantic sky fitted in to the

expanse of the row of pearls of the PaadhukAs. Such was the size of

PaadhukAs adorning the Lord's Thiruvadi at the time of Thrivikrama's

measurement of the sky with one step.

 

2) SrImath Andavan's anubhavam:Oh PaadhukE! During the time of

ThrivikramAvathAram, the sky was caught between the pearls on You and

the sky looked like the bees caught in the middle of a flower bunch

(pearls).

 

3) Oh PadhukE! During ThrivikramAvathAram, You were growing with the

upward growing, gigantic feet of the Lord, who is the enemy of Bali (

Thvam Unnatham Bhali virOdhina: padha sarOjam aasrithA ). At that

time (TadhA), You made the blue sky (vyOma) interpositioned with Your

pearls ( moukthika sthamBaka madhya sammithAm vyOma ) and made the

sky look like a group of bees caught in between a flower bunch (TadhA

vyOma Shadpadha-thulAm alabhya: )..(V.S).