devanayaka panchasat

You are here: SriPedia - ebooks - Vedanta Desikan - devanayaka panchasat
Fourty Third SlOkam ( Salutations to The Lord's Thiruvadi nails)
****************************************************************
pankAnyasou mama nihanthi mahas-tarangai:
GangAdhikam vidhadhathee Garuda Sravantheem
nAkoukasAm maNi kirIda ganairupAsya
NaaTa Thvadheeya PadhayOr-nakha rathna pankthi:

General Meaning:
*****************
Oh DevanATA! The GangA pravAham generated from Your Thiruvadi
had sambhandham with Your sacred nails of the toes only at
the time of its birth. The Garuda nadhi ( called Gedilam
today) has the sambhandham with the nails of Your ThiruvadigaL
at all times since it washes Your Thiruvadigal always.
Thus Garuda Nadhi has a far superior vaibhavam compared
to GangA Nadhi, which had limited time links to Your sacred
feet .Garuda Nadhi's superior glories arose out of association
with Your Thiruvadi nails at all times at ThiruvahIndhrapuram.
Further, the DevAs living in Svarga lOkam prostrate before You
with their crowned heads . The matchless lustre of Your
toe nails fall on the gems of their crowns at that time
and enhances the lustre of the gems in their crowns.
The rays from Your radiant toe nails with such vaibhavam
fall on the mud of my profound sins and destroy them totally.

Additional Comments:
*********************
The sacred river GangA took its birth from the ThiruvadikaL
of Thrivikraman , when Brahma Devan washed them with the waters
from His Kamandalu. Once the river left the Lord's feet
and flowed downwards to earth , it had no more physical
contact with the Lord's ThiruvaigaL or their toe nails .
garuda nadhi was created , when Garuda BhagavAn used his
powerful beak to tear the earth to produce the water to
quench the thirst of Lord DevanAthan. That water flows
even today in the cleft right next to the temple as
Garuda Nadhi. This river washes the Thiruvadigal of the Lord
as it flows and the Lord's toe nails also recieve Thirumanjanam
without let. Thus Garuda Nadhi is superior to Ganga in
having nithya sambhandham with the Lord's Thiruvadi nakhangaL.
Swamy Desikan states that the JyOthi of the nails destroys his
sins as they fall on the huge bundle of sins justlike
a powerful laser evaporates the material on which it is focused.