devanayaka panchasat

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SlOkam 38: (VarNanam of the Lord's Naabhi)
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sthreerathna kAraNam upAttha thrutheeyavarNam
dhaithyEndhra veerasayanam daythOpadhAnam
dEvEsa youna gajEndhra karaabhirAmam
ureekarOthi bhavadhUruyugam manO mE

General Meaning
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Oh Dhaiva NaayakA! PurANAs describe that the most beautiful
apsaras lady , Urvasi took her birth from Your thigh (i-e).,
You created her out of Your thighs. Vedam says that among
the four jaahtis ( Brahmins-KshathriyAs-VaisyAs-SudrAs) ,
the VaisyAs came out o Your thigh as well.PurANAs again
describe that Your thighs served as the heroic place of rest
(Veera PaLLi koLLum idam) for the Asuras ,Madhu and KaidabhA,
duirng Your avathAram as Lord HayagrIvan.They were placed there
and crushed to their death by You as punishment for stealing
VedAs from Brahma Devan. Your thighs also are the places of
enjoyable rest for the head of Your divine consorts .During those
occasions, Your strong thighs serve as pillows for their heads.
You are forever youthful (nithya yuvA). Your power as
a Nithya YuvA is like that of a young elephant full of strength .
Those thighs of Yours resemble the trunk of that youthful elephant
and pull my mind towards them and keeps my mind under
their influence .

Additional Comments:
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Lord DevanAthAn's thighs resembling the trunk of
a powerful , young elephant are linked to four events:

(1) It is the place of birth of the most beautiful apsaras
by the name of Urvasi . At BadrikAsramam , Lord NaarAyaNa
created Urvasi to charm those who came to distract Him
from His tapas. They came under her spell completely
and lost the purpose of their visit. Swamy Desikan
refers to this incident at BadrikAsramam (Nara-NaarAyaNa
avathAram ) and salutes that thigh of the Lord as
the reason for the birth of the gem among women
(Sthree rathna KaaraNam).

(2) Next Swamy Desikan salutes the thigh of the Lord
of ThiruvahIndhrapuram as the creator of the third
jAthi , VaisyAs ( Reference in Purusha Sookthm passage:
OorU tadhasya Yadh Vaisya:).Swamy Desikan refers to this
creation of VaisyAs by the Lord from His thighs during
Sarva Hutha Yj~nam as "upAttha thrutheeya varNam".

(3) The Lord of Thiruayindhai sitting as SrI HayagrIvan
on top of the Oushada giri at ThiruvahIndhrapuram
destroyed the kings of AsurAs, Madhu and KaiDaban
by crushing them on His thigh. At that time, the Lord's
thigh served as the heroic death bed for the asurA kings
( DhaithrEndhriya veera sayanam).

(4) During His sportive moments with His Devis at His inner
chambers, Lord's thigh serves as the soft pillows for them
( DauyithA UpadhAnam).

Those thighs remind Swamy Desikan of the trunk of
a powerful young elephant ( Youvana gajEndhra kara
abhirAmam Bhavath OorU yugam) and he concedes that
those powerful thighs draw and overpowers his mind
( Bhavath OorU yugam mE mana: UrikarOthi).

In the 56th slOkam of SrI VaradarAja Sthavam ,
KurEsar describes the extraordinary and matchless
beauty of the Lord's thighs. Those thoughts are echoed in
Swamy Desikan's vivaraNam (description ) of the thighs
of Lord DevanAthan . The Lord has eternal youth
as Vedam points out:" yuvAakumAra: akumAra youvana sTitham".
KurEsar states that the traditional comparisons of
the beauty of the Lord's thighs to (1)the trunk of
a beautiful Vaazhai maram ( SaarabhAja: rambhAsthambhA:),
(2)to a trunk ( thumbikkai) of a powerful elephant ( Karivara
KarA:) and (3)to emerald pillars ( kArabhA: maragatha
sthambhA:) are inadequate. KurEsar states that the compared
objects do not have the beauty of the Youthful Lord's
thighs and can not have the power of creating the world .
Swamy Desikan elaborates on these themes in his
salutation to the thighs of Lord DeavanAthan
of ThiruvahIndhrapuram.