Thiruvaheendhrapuram RathnAngi Kaimkaryam series: Posting 283 /Desika Prabhandham : Nava MaNi Maalai: Part II

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SrI:

 

Dear BhakthAs of Lord DevanAtha PerumAL :

 

Macroscopic view of this Prabhandham

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In this Prabhandham of Nava MaNi Maalai , Swamy Desikan

speaks about the glories of EmperumAn's sacred feet and

next about His ten avathArams .He follows it up with

the salutation to the sacred theerthams creeated at

Thiruvaheendhrapuram by Brahma , Garudan , Aadhi Seshan

and BhUmi Piraatti on the banks of which the Lord stays

with affection . Swamy Desikan next elaborates on

the walk to the seas side during the month of Maasi

to enjoy His uthsavam at the sandy dunes and points out

that those who have not forgotten His beauty will be

freed from the cycles of births and deaths .He concludes

the Nava MaNi Maalai by pleading with the Lord to grant

him abhaya pradhAnam during his last moments on earth

and acknowledges his composition of nine SrI sookthis

( 2 in Sanskrit and 7 in Tamil) at the command of his Lord.

 

The Vaibhavam of the Lord's sacred feet

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oru mathi anbhar uLam kavarnthana

ulaham adanga vaLarnthu aLanthana

oru saDai onRiya Gangai tanthana

urha paDangaL angu koNDana ( LInes 1-4)

 

(Meaning ) : The sacred lotus feet of Lord DevanAthan ,

who is true to His devotees , enchant the minds of

the ParamaikAnthis and make them meditate on

those holy feet all the time. Such are their Vaibhavam !

Those sacred feet rose to a gigantic size and contained all

the worlds under them . They created the GangA river

and made Lord Siva a Parisuddhan by letting Him hold

that sacred river in His matted locks. During KrishNAvathAram ,

those sacred feet used the hoods of the fiercely

poisonous serpent , KaaLIngan as the theater

for their dance and danced there .

 

dharumam uyarnthathu ithu yenna ninRana

Dharuman iranthathu isainthu senRana

sakadam udainthu kalanga venRana

tamarkaL arunthum marunthu yenbana ( Lines 5-8)

 

(Meaning): These sacred feet are powerful to grant

adiyArs their desired phalans by manifesting as

the unique and wonderous upAyam . They dared to

go to DuryOdhanan's court even as an ambassador

at the request of Dharmaputhrar . Those feet destroyed

into shreds the asuran , who came in the form of a wheel

to kill Him during KrishNAvathAram .They are saluted by

the SaasthrAs as the insatiable nectar and medicine for

removing the sufferings from worldly afflictions (SamsAra

tApams) .

 

ThirumahaL seyya karankaL onRina

thihazh TuLavu unthum maNam kamazhnthana

sezhumaNi koNDa silambu ilangina

silai tanil anRu ohr aNangu umizhnthana(Lines 9-12)

 

(Meaning): Those sacred feet unite with the tender

hands of MahA Lakshmi , when She presses them .

They are fragrant with the perfume of sacred TuLasi

from the archanais of adiyArs. They shine with the lustre of

the gem-studded ankle ornament and add beauty to

the rathna silampu through their union . During RaamAvathAram ,

they blessed Ahalyai to appear again in her beautiful

form as the wife of Gouthama and freed her from

the curse of her husband .

 

aru maRai antham amarntha paNbina

Ayan mudi tannil amarnthu uyarnthana

aruL tara yeNNi Ayinthai vanthana

Adiyavar Meyyar malar PaadhangaLE ( Lines 13-16)

 

(Meaning): Those sacred feet have the vaibhavam of

housing themselves inside Upanishads (VedAnthams) .

They sat on the head of BrahmA and rose further up.

They arrived at Thiru Ayindhai to bless Their adiyArs .

Those are the lotus soft and beautiful feet of the Lord

eulogized as Natha Sathyan ( Adiyavar Meyyan) .

 

Sarvam KrishNArpaNam asthu ,

 

Daasan , Oppiliappan KOil VaradachAri SadagOpan

Srimate Sri Laksminrisimha Divya Paduka Sevaka

SrivaNN Satakopa Sri Narayana Yatindra Mahadesikaya Nama: