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 SrI:

Dear BhakthAs of Lord Dhaiva Naayakan :

The last slOkam of SrI DevanAyaka PanchAsath sthOthram 
that we paid our salutations was the captivating 18th slOkam.
That was on June 6,2003.

>From here on , adiyEn will try to post atleast one posting 
per day on the individual slOkams of Sri DevanAyaka PanchAsath
until we reach the final 53rd slOkam soon . May Lord DevanAthan 
bless the kaimkaryam!

Ninteenth SlOkam ( Forehead of the Lord)
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labdhA tiTou kvacchidhiyam rajanI-karENa
LakshmI: sTirA SurapathE bhavathO lalADE
yath svEdha Bhindhu kaNikOdhgatha BhudhbudhAntha:
trayakksha: purA sa purushOajani SoolapANi:

(Extended Meaning): Oh Lord DhaivanAyakA! On the Sukla 
ashtami days , the form of Chandra Kalai will be most
beautiful to look at. The poets are fond of comparing 
the beautiful person's forehead to that ashtami chandran.
If it is so for human beings, it is easy to deduce how
many more times beautiful would be for Your Forehead . Your
forehead beats the beauty of Ashtami chandran by many
levels and instructs us that Ashtami Chandran derives 
his own limited beauty from the richest source of 
soundharyam (viz)., Your soundharyam-filled forehead .
There is some thing else , when poets compare the beauty
of Your forehead with ashtami chandran. In the case of 
Chandran , his optimal beauty does not last beyond 
the ashtami dinam. For You however , the beauty of 
Your forehead is eternal. The power of Your forehead 
is comprehended by the fact that it gave birth to 
the Trident-wielding Soola PaaNi from a small portion 
of a drop of sweat associated with Your forehead. 
Such is the soundharyam and power of Your incomparable 
forehead !

Additional Observations: 
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Swamy Desikan refers to the permanent soundharya
Isvaryam of the forehead of Lord DevanAthan this way:

LabdhA tiTou kvacchidiyam rajanI-kaRENa 
LAKSHMI: sTirA SurapathE bhavathO lalADE

This beauty(iyam LAKSHMI) acquired from Your forehead by
the Ashtami Chandran (Kavachidh tiTou rajani karENa 
labdha ) is firm and unchanging ( sTirA), where as 
the beauty of the Ashtami chandran lasts only one day.

The usage of the auspicious word , "Lakshmi " for 
the forehead can be linked to KurEsar's description of 
the beauty of the forehead of Lord VaradarAjan in his
Sri VaradarAja Sthavam using the same word , LakshmI:

UbhayOrapi pakshayOsthiTeeryA
vishamI-bhAva nirAsadhAshtameethi
upamAnaja sampadhE hi sEndhO:
VarAdhAbhUdh BhavathO LALAADA LAKSHMYA

Here , Kuresar as a master poet refers to 
the BhAgyam that Ashtami Chandran got
through comparison with the Soundharya 
Lakshmi of the Lord's forehead (LalADa Lakshmi).

On ashtami days, the Moon has a beautiful semi-circular
shape that reminds one of the beauty of the Lord's
forehead from which the Moon's beauty is derived.
Chandran worshipped the Lord of ThiruvahIndhrapuram
and got the boon of comparison to the beauty of
the Lord's forehead on Ashtami days ( KrishNa and 
Sukla ashtamis)by poets. 

Ashtami tiTi is also sacred for KrishNAvathAram
(JanmAshtami) , which is referred to by Swamy 
Desikan in the 317th slOkam of SrI RanganAtha
PaadhukA sahasram (SanchAra Paddhathi).

SlOkam 20:( ThirumaNN Kaappu description)
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On the beautiful forehead of the Lord DeavanAthan ,
Swamy Desikan finds the radiant Urdhva PuNDram
and his salutation of the auspicious Thiru MaNN
Kaappu takes this form:

lavANya varshiNI lalADa-tadE ganAbhE
Bhibrath taDithguNa visEshamivOrdhva puNDram
visvasya nirjapathE tamasA aavruthasya
manyE vibhAvayasi mangaLeeka pradheepam

(Extended Meaning): Oh DhaivanAyakA! Oh NeelamEka
ShyAmaLA! On Your beautiful blue forehead , one has 
the darsana soubhAgyam of the lustrous Thiru Mann kAppu ,
which is like the radiant lightning that jumps out of
the dark blue rain clouds . That lightning would last
for a small amount of time and will disappear. The lightning
of brilliant Thiru MaNN kAppu on Your forehead however
lasts forever and removes the dark clouds of Ajn~Anam
in the minds of those , who worship You. One wonders whether
that Thiru MaNN kAppu has been adorned by You to serve
as an auspicous lamp to remove the darkness of ajn~Anam 
in the minds of Your devotees. 

Additional Observations
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In his 26th slOkam of SrI VaradarAja Sthavam , KurEsar
salutes the Thiru MaNN Kaappu of Lord VaradarAjan and 
this slOkam might have inspired Swamy Desikan to compose
a slOkam focusing on the Urdhva PUNDram by Lord DevanAthan.
("ImayOr Talaivan"):

uddharathuparai bhakthajanAn ithi
urdhvathAsrayana soochitha sakthim
urdhva puNDra tilakam bahumAnAth
kim Bibharshi Varadha ! sva-lalADE

The sacredness of the Urdhva PuNDram and its symbolism
on the Lord's Beautiful forehead as "Bhaktha JanAn 
Upari uddharathi ithi UrdhvAsrayaNa soochitha sakthim ".
It is not only beautiful like the bright lightning out of
the dark blue rainy season cloud but it is also to signal
the superior gathi reserved for bhaktha janams through
its upward posture ( Urdhvam nayathi yath puNDram prANina:
pApakAriNa:).Urdhva PuNDram leads its wearers to Urdhva
gathi (archirAdhi Maargam). This is what the Lord conveys 
by Himself adorning Urdhva PuNDram . Therefore Swamy Desikan 
focused on the beauty and significance of Urdhva PuNDram adorned
by SrI DevanAthan at ThiruvahIndhrapuram. 

SrI DevanAtha Para BrahmaNE nama:
Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan




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