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Fourty Third SlOkam ( Salutations to The Lord's Thiruvadi nails)
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pankAnyasou mama nihanthi mahas-tarangai:
GangAdhikam vidhadhathee Garuda Sravantheem
nAkoukasAm maNi kirIda ganairupAsya
NaaTa Thvadheeya PadhayOr-nakha rathna pankthi:

General Meaning:
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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:
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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.

SlOkam 44: (VarNanam of the Lord's fingers of the feet)
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Vajra dhvajAnkusa sudhA kalsAthapathra
kalpa-dhrumAmbhuruha tOraNa sankha-chakrai:
mathsayasyAdhibhisccha ViBudhEswara maNDitham tE
maanyam padham bhavathu mouLi vibhUshanam Na:

General Meaning
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Oh DhaivanAyakA! The souls of Your Sacred feet display 
the PurushOtthama LakshaNams: Marks of VajrAyudham , 
Dhvajam/flag, ankusam/elephant goad, amrutha kalasam,
umbrella , karpaka vruksham , Lotus flower, festoons/
ThOranam , Sankhu , Chakram and fish.May those ThiruvadigaL
dear to BrahmA and DevAs and eulogized by them with reverence
stay on our heads as sirObhUshaNam and sanctify them. 

Additional Comments:
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Swamy Desikan prays: " ViBhudhEswara! Maanyam tE
padham na: mouLi vibhUshaNam bahavathu"( May Your
revered Thiruvadigal become the sirObhUshanam for us!).
He lists all insignia found on the souls befitting
His sTAnam as the PurushOtthaman.Swamy Desikan
points out all of these PurushOtthama Chihnams
are tightly clustered (manDitham) in the soul of 
the Supreme Lord giving us Sevai at Thiruvayindhai. 
Swamy Desikan salutes once more the ThiruvadigaL 
of Lord DevanAthan through this slOkam.The pramANam
for the power of ThiruvadigaL of the Lord in aasritha 
rakshanam is:

dhurAchArOpi sarvAsee krudhagnO nAsthika: purA 
samAsrayEth AadhidEvam SaraNyam SaraNam yadhi
nirdhOsham vidhdi tamm janthum prabhAvAth ParamAthmana:

(meaning): One could have been a DhurAchAran ( performer of
deeds prohibited by SaasthrAs) , bearing the wealth of all
sins , ungrateful towards those who helped him ,
naasthikan before . Once that pitiable and unfortunate
jeevan seeks sole refuge at the Lord's sacred feet 
as Sarva Loka saraNyan , then that jeevan is freed 
from all dhOshams through the power of the Lord's 
Thiruvadi. BhaggavAn Kaalai ghettiyAha piditthu koNDu
vittAl, AvanAl anth ajeevanai uthara mudiyAthu. 
KaatthE theera vENum yenpathu namathu siddhAntham
( Once a Jevan holds tight the Lord's feet as 
the sole refuge with MahA VisvAsam, Lord can not shake that 
jeevan away and abandon him. The vratham of our Lord is
to protect that jeevan without fail).

NamO SrI DevanATAya,
Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan 

P.S: May Lord DevanAthan's beautiful ThiruvadikaL 
and their nails that forever held Swamy Desikan in
their debt inspire You all as well to join in Lord Devanathan's 
RathnAngi Kaimkaryam ! 




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