Padhuka Sahasram-895

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Sri:

 

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

 

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

 

895. svacChAkArAm shruthisuraBhithAm svAdhuBhAvOpapannAm

mArgEmArgE mahithaviBhavam pAdhukE! thIrthaBhEdhaI:

shIthasparshAm shramavinayinIm gAhathE mandhamandham

krIdAlOla: kamalanilayAdhatthahasthO yuvA thvAm

 

Oh Paaduka! The Lord putting His feet into You may be compared to His

getting into a holy water stream like Kaveri to enjoy water-sport

with Mahalakshmi.

 

You have a clean spotless, lustrous appearance. You smell Vedic

fragrance. You are sweet, delectable and fit for enjoyment. You are

treated to homage and hospitality, on Your way, by holy savants for

Your great stature. Being coold, You are a pleasant outfit to the

Lord. By wearing You, the Lord feels relieved, so to say, of his

fatigue and tiredness. When He descends into the stream with the Lord

taking the hand of the consort, Mahalakshmi, and when He wears You,

He evinces great pleasure, loses Himself in the enjoyment and so He

does it very slowly, deliberately in a tardy manner.

 

Like You, the stream water is crystal clear, without any colour or

impurity; rivers like the Kaveri have been praised by Srutis (say in

Aghamarshana-sookta). On the way, it has many bathing ghats. It is

cool enough to remove our sultriness-even that, which results from

Tapatraya.

 

The perennial Youth taking Mahalakshmi's hand gets down slowly.

 

 

Namo Narayana,

 

SriMuralidhara Dasan

 

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

 

slOkam 895

 

1. UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: After describing the PaadukAs as

GangA, Swamy Desikan states that the Lord's wearing of the PaadhukAs

is equivalent to His play in water to amuse Himself. Your Lord is

thrilled to enter in to Your cool waters to have water sport. You

have all the attributes of the mighty river like CauvEri and GangA .

Swamy Desikan says in this context : " Oh PaadhukE! Lord RanganAtha

enters Your cool inside just as He is going to engage in His

favorite water sport. You are like a cool and fatigue-removing stream

of water or river, which is pure and celebrated by the VedAs and

having ghats designed by the ancient AchAryAs. Lord RanganAtha enjoys

entering in to You assisted by the lotuses , which greet Him with

their hands " .

 

2. SrImath Andavan's anubhavam:Oh PaadhukE ! The eternally young

RanganAthan (Nithya yuvA ) is given the hand lift by the lady

residing in the Lotus flower ( Kamala nilayaa dhatta hastha: ) to

start His sanchAram for engaging with Her in his water sports. For

that sanchAram, He enters His sacred feet inside You, which is cool to

experience and is protective against the thorns and hardships of the

road. He places His sacred feet in You with great affection and

expectation of SukhAnubhavam during the forthcoming sanchAram to the

banks of river Cauvery .

 

3. SrImad Andavan's nine fold intrepretation of the assembly of words

( samabhivyAhAram ) in this slOkam is one of the most beautiful

commentaries. The assembly of the following four words is the object

of the nine fold commentary by SrImadhyAdhi AaakUr ANDavan (HH SrI

SrinivAsa MahA Desikan ) at the behest of SrImadhyAdhi NammANDavan (

HH TherazandhUr ANDavan). That masterly commentary on the assembly of

four words: " KreeDAlOla: Kamala-nilayA dhatthahasthO yuvA " will be

taken up seperately .

 

The Paadhukais are saluted by Swamy Desikan as the One with clear

svaroopam ( svaccha AakAram ), redolent with the fragrace of Vedam

(Sruthi SurabhithAm/Veda ParimaLam ) , with attributes that are most

enjoyable to experience ( SvAdhu-bhAva upapannAm ), cool to touch

( Seetha sparsAm ), remover of fatigue of SamsAram ( srama vinayineem)

and having the glories of being saluted by many PuNYa PurushAs during

the sancharam from one place to the other ( maargE maargE

theerTabhEdhai: mahitha vibhavAm). The Lord desirous of Jala Krredai

(kreeDA lOla:) travels to the banks of Cauvery on His Paadhukais

after placing His sacred feet inside them delicately (mandham mandham

gaahathE ) out of respect for the Vaibhavam of His Paadhukais (Swamy

NammAzhwAr).

 

V.S.