devanayaka panchasat

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Twenty Third SlOkam of Sri Devanayaka Panchasath:
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(The Beauty of the Lord's Brows)

nEthum sarOja vasathir-nijamAdhirAjyam
nithyam nisAmayathi DevapathE bhruvou tE
yEvam na chEdh akila janthu vimOhanArhaa
kim mAthrukA bhavathi kAmasarAsanasya

Extended Meaning
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Oh Lord of the DevAs! You commanded Your son ,
Brahma dEvan to engage in the act of creation.
For execution of these assigned responsibilities ,
Brahma looks every second at the movement of Your
brows to get the clue about the successive steps of
creation .This frequent darsanam of Your bow-like
eye brows gives BrahmA the confidence to create
Manmathan's beautiful bow. Since the beauty of Your
brows captivates and enchants all , BrahmA uses it
as a model to create Manmathan's bow used by him
to enchant the people of the world . If BrahmA did not
have the benefit of looking at Your beautiful brows,
where would BrahmA have gotten the inspiration to create
the bow of Manmathan? Nothing but Your most charming
eye brows could qualify to become the MathrukA
( the primary model/mold )for the bow of Manmathan.

Additional Comments:
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The question that Swamy Desikan asks is: " Kim mathrukA
Kaama sarAsanasya?" ( What vasthu would have served as
the model for creation of the Sugarcane bow of ManmathA?)
and answers that the matchless beauty and the perfect
shape of the Lord's eye brows alone prempted every other
contender to inspire BrahmA .Those brows of the Lord
of ThiruvahIndhrapuram transfer the power of enchanting
the beings of the world and through their power confer
on ManmathA's bow the power to become effective in its
duties (Sthree-Purusha VaseekaraNam).