devanayaka panchasat

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SlOkam 42: (VarNanam of the Lord's fingers of the feet)
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avarjithApi:anushajya nijAmsu jAlai:
DevEsa dhivya Padha Padhma dhaLAyithAbhi:
anyAbhilAsha parilOlamidham madheeyam
angIkrutham hrudhayamanguLibhi: svayam tE

General Meaning
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Oh Dhaiva NaayakA! the fingers on Your Thiruvadis
are slightly bent and are beautiful to look at.
One wonders whether they are slightly bent because
of the weight of the lustre that they have to bear.
Your fingers of the feet and toes are soft and are
red like the petals of the lotus flower. They have
charmed my mind with their beauty and have kept my
mind under their control . Prior to their power of
vaseekaraNam , my mind was wandering restlessly
after all worldly objects .

Additional Comments:
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The beauty and power of the anguLis ( fingers of
the feet) of Lord DeavanATan are saluted in this
slOkam. Swamy Desikan confesses that his heart was
lusting after all kinds of non-lasting pleasures
( madheeyam idham hrudhayam anya abhilAsha
parilOlam) until it had the blessings of the Sevai of
the soft and beautiful toes of the Thiruvadis of
the Lord of Thiruvayindhai.Those fingers of the feet of
the Lord are slightly bent inward as if they have been
influenced by the assembly of the brillinat rays emanting
from the nails of the Lord ( nija amsu jaalai: anushajya
aavarjithAbhi: iva). Those fingers of the feet appear like
the petals of the soft and beautiful red Lotus. Here the Lord's
Thiruvadi is compared to the tender and beautiful-to-behold
red lotus and the fingers of the Thiruvadi are compared to
the petals of that red lotus.