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Thirty Third SlOkam ( VanamAlai VarNanam )
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varNakramENa VibhudEsa vichithrithAngee
smEra prasoona subhagA VanamAlikEyam
hrudhyA sugandhi rajahath KamalA maNeendhrA
nithyA Tava sphurathi Moorthiriva dhvitheeyA
General Meaning:
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Oh DhaivanAyakA! The Vanamalai adorned by You
appears like another ThirumEni of Yours. It is
made up of many colored flowers ( White, Red, Yellow and
Blue flowers from the forest).It has this polychromed array ,
which makes it most enjoyable like Your own body , which
is wonderous in that the limbs of Your body has generated
many different categories of people like the Brahmins ,
Kings, VaisyAs and SudrAs. The just blossomed flowers
in the VanamAlai make it bewitching to behold.It adorns
Your sacred chest and has haunting fragrance.On that sacred
Chest of Yours are SrI Devi and Kousthubham gem along
with the VanamAlai. This wild flower garland never
fades and is Saasvatham like Your body .It is like Your
second body in the sense that it has the natural fragrance
and is eternal in its existence .
Additional Comments:
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Swamy Desikan incorporates double meanings for
the following phrases of this slOkam:
1)"VarNa KramENa" can mean the array of colors associated with
the wild flowers constituting the VanamAlai or it can mean
the order of the four VarNAsramams ( BrAhmaNa-Kshatriya-Vaisya-
SudrALs).
2)"VichithrithAngi" can mean the assembly of many colors
in VanamAlai or it can mean the various limbs of the Lord.
3)"SmEra Prasoona SubhagA" can mean the garland
that is beautiful with fully blossomed flowers or
the Lord's body that is beautiful like a just blossomed
flower.
4)"hrudhyA" can mean on the chest region or delectable
to experience .
Both VanamAlai and the Lord's body have natural fragrance
(Sugandhi:). Both are eternal (nithyA); both are never
separated from MahA Lakshmi and Kousthubham ( ajahath
KamalA , MaNeendhrA).
Therefore , Swamy Desikan concludes that the Lord's
VanamAlai is a veritable second body of the Lord
( Iyam VanamAlikA Tava DhvitheeyA Moorthy iva sphurathi).