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Dear BhakthAs of Lord Dhaiva Naayakan :

Twenty third SlOkam ( The Beauty of the Lord's Brows)
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nEthum sarOja vasathir-nijamAdhirAjyam
nithyam nisAmayathi DevapathE bhruvou tE
yEvam na chEdh akila janthu vimOhanArhaa
kim mAthrukA bhavathi kAmasarAsanasya

Extended Meaning
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Oh Lord of the DevAs! You commanded Your son , 
Brahma dEvan to engage in the act of creation.
For execution of these assigned responsibilities , 
Brahma looks every second at the movement of Your 
brows to get the clue about the successive steps of
creation .This frequent darsanam of Your bow-like
eye brows gives BrahmA the confidence to create 
Manmathan's beautiful bow. Since the beauty of Your 
brows captivates and enchants all , BrahmA uses it 
as a model to create Manmathan's bow used by him 
to enchant the people of the world . If BrahmA did not
have the benefit of looking at Your beautiful brows,
where would BrahmA have gotten the inspiration to create 
the bow of Manmathan? Nothing but Your most charming
eye brows could qualify to become the MathrukA 
( the primary model/mold )for the bow of Manmathan. 

Additional Comments:
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The question that Swamy Desikan asks is: " Kim mathrukA
Kaama sarAsanasya?" ( What vasthu would have served as
the model for creation of the Sugarcane bow of ManmathA?)
and answers that the matchless beauty and the perfect
shape of the Lord's eye brows alone prempted every other
contender to inspire BrahmA .Those brows of the Lord
of ThiruvahIndhrapuram transfer the power of enchanting 
the beings of the world and through their power confer
on ManmathA's bow the power to become effective in its
duties (Sthree-Purusha VaseekaraNam).


SlOkam 24: (The Beauty of the Lord's Eyes)
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aalakshya satthvam athivEla dayOttharangam
abhyarTinAm abhimatha prathipAdhanArham 
snigdhAyatham praTimasAli Suparva nATa
dugdhAmbhudhE: anukarOthi vilOchanam tE 

Extended Meaning
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Oh Lord DhaivanAyakA! Your most beautiful eyes
remind adiyEn of the Milky Ocean , which is full of 
acquatic animals. The waves of Milky Ocean break 
ceaselessly at the banks gently.People One can obtain 
all one want from those auspicious waves. Those waves are 
wide in area and extend over long distances. Your
captivating eyes have all these features of the waves
of the Milky Ocean . Your eyes are full of benovolence
and limitless DayA.The glances originating from
those eyes gives all the boons that one desires.
Those eyes are extended all the way to Your ears and
are wide. 

Additional Comments:
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Swamy Desikan uses the double meanings of 
two words ( Satthva and Snigdha) to achieve
the comparison between the Lord's dayA-filled
eyes with that of the Milky Ocean. Swamy starts 
the comparison with the choice word "Aalakshya Satthvam".
This can mean either filled with satthva guNam in those eyes
( for the Lord) or filled with many acquatic animals
(for the Milky Ocean). Next , Swamy uses the prayOgam of
"Snigdha vilOchanam" . Here the word "Snigdha" can mean
friendly and welcoming ( for the Lord's eyes) or beautiful 
(in the case of the Milky Ocean). Rest of the descriptions
about the Lord's eyes are equally alluring :

(1) athivEla DayOttharAngam: The Ocean with ceaseless
waves of DayA breaking on its shores (Vide: Daya Sathakam
for Swamy Desikan's celebration of the DayA guNam of
the Lord).

(2) AbhyarTinAm abhimatha prathipAdhana arham: Like a Kalpaka
tree fit to grant any boon that the devotee seeks (Here
the Lord DevanAthan's oudhAryam/generosity is hailed).

(3) Snigdham aayatham prathimasAli tE VilOchanam : Here , 
the salutation to the eyes of the Lord , which are 
full of Vaathsalyam at seeing His bhakthan ; they 
are long stretching from ear to ear and wide so
that they do not miss any thing. 

Swamy concludes on this basis of comparsion that
the Lord's auspicious eyes are very much like
the milky ocean on which He rests( tE vilOchanam
dhugdha ambhudhE: anukarOthi). 

NamO SrI DevanATAya,
Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan 

P.S: May those beautiful and Vaathsalyam-filled
eyes of the Lord of ThiruvahIndhrapuram look
at You and inspire you to join in His Kaimkaryam.







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