devanayaka panchasat

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Fourty First SlOkam ( Salutations to The Lord's Thiruvadi)
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PaashAna nirmitha tapOdhana dharmadhAram
bhasmanupAhitha narEndra KumAra bhAvam
samvAhitham Thridasa nATa RamA-MaheebhyAM
SaamAnya dhaivatham usanthi padham Thvadheeyam

General Meaning:
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Oh DhaivanAyakA! The power of Your sacred feet are
limitless. During RaamAvathAram , they restored life
to the wife of Sage Gouthama , who was existing as a stone
by the road side due to her husband's curse over her
marital infidelity. The contact with the dust from Your
sacred feet cleansed her of all the sins and returned her to
erstwhle status as the revered wife of a great sage.
During KrishnAvathAram , AsvatthAma vowed to kill even
the embryo of the last of the PaaNDavAs and sent
a powerful arrow named ApaaNDava asthram to the
womb of Uttharai , who was carrying the seed of
PaaNDavAs. That asthram burnt the live embryo and
reduced it to ashes. As the dearest friend of PaaNDavAs,
You entered the womb of Queen Utthirai and through
Your paadha sparsam restored that assembly of ashes
in to a living child, which became King Parikshith
later and protected the lineage of PaaNDavAs from
disappearance . SrI Devi and BhUmi DEvi affectionately
press those mysterious and powerful ThiruvadigaLs
of Yours . The learned ones praise those ThiruvadigaLs,
which have the power to bring back to life stone and
ash and recognize that Your ThiruvadigaLs are
the common property of all the sentient beings.

Additional Comments:
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Our Lord's ThiruvadigaL have limitless power to
cause miracles. One of them is AhalyA Saapa VimOchanam.
AhalyA was staying as a stone (PaashAnam). Lord Raamachandran's
Paadha rENu came in to contact with AhalyA resting as
a stone by the way side and restored her back to
her former human form as the the SahadharamchAriNi of
the Sage Gouthama ( PaashaNa nirmitha TapOdhana dharma
dhAram). During the KrishNAvathAram , those Thiruvadis
created a young PaaNDava prince from the ashes resting
in the womb of a PaanDava queen ( Bhasmani upAhitha
NarEndra KumAra BhAvam). Those sacred Thiruvadigal
Jumped on the hoods of the Serpent KaaLingan. They
roamed the DaNDakA forests in search of SitA PirAtti.
They got tired. Therefore Both SrI Devi and BhU DEvi
are pressing those sacred feet with their gentle hands
to remove the aches and pains of thos ThiruvadigaLs of
the Lord. During Thrivikrama avathAram , the very same
sacred feet shot up and measured the earth and heaven .
Those sacred feet blessed every jeevan and devAs with
the Paadha Sparsam . All of the people of the word
got sanctified with the sparsam (touch ) of
those Paadhams , which became the wealth of all (Thvadheeyam
Padham SaamAnya Dhaivatham bhabhUva). This is the view of
all learned ones says Swamy Desikan.