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Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin:

761. prapadhyE pAdhukArUpam praNavasya kalAdhvayam
Otham mithamidham yasminnananthasyApi thathpadham

I pay obeisance to the twin Padhukas, which together represent the 
pranava composed of the infinite Paramatma and the limited Jivatma 
(represented by A and M respectively); the Lord's foot (of infinite 
course in Trivikrama form) and the Lord of infinite nature are also 
intertwined.

Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan (V.S):

Introduction: In this Dhvandhva paddhathi (Twenty Fourth)
Chapter, Swamy Desikan starts to describe the PadhukAs of
the Lord as a pair and compares this pair to many other 
objects and attributes seen in pair . There are twenty 
slOkams in this Chapter.

SlOkam 761

1) UtthamUr Sawmy's anubhavam: Here, Swamy Desikan describes
the two letters of PraNavam associated with the Lord and His consort
as the pair of PaadhukAs. Swamy Desikan says: " I salute 
the Pranavam (Om) made up of the two letters , "O" and "im"
for Odham and Mitam respectively , which have taken the form
of the two PaadhukAs.Those two letters constituting the PraNavam
represent the auspicious attributes of the Lord and His consort.
I surrender unto this pair of PaadhukAs of the Lord. It is
in those PaadhukAs , the limitless attributes of the Lord are 
housed and becomes defined. The two letters of Pranavam
denote the Lord and His consort. Those are the PaadhukAs.
I salute them".

2) SrImath Andavan's anubhavam:The pair of PaadhukAs 
remind us of the letter "O" constituted by the joining of
of letters "A" and "U". I place my trsut in this pair.

PerumAl has a name called Ananthan (i.e), the One who is
not calibrated by place, kaalam and vasthu. This limitless 
Thiruvadi of the Lord is calibrated by the Paadhukais.Just
as the "O" made up of letters "A" and "U" does not seperate
from the latter pair, the Tatthvam behind "A" (PerumAl) and 
"U" (ThAyAr) never seaprate from each other even for a fraction
of a second.Similarly , the Paadhukais do not ever separate
themselves from each other. They never disassociate themselves
from the sacred feet of the Lord in their mission to protect
the world.Therefore , it is said that the One who has gotten
hold of the Padhukais(AchAryan) has gotten hold of the sacred
feet of the Lord Himself.The PerumAl and ThAyAr ( represented by 
the Letter "O" ) is linked to the Jeevan (letter "im") to
form the full praNavam. 

3)I take refuge in Pranavam , which is of the form of
PaadhukAs ( PaadhukA roopam PraNavasya Otham kalAdhvayam 
( "A" +"U") prapadhyE).In these two Paadhukais , the feet
of the immeasurable PerumAl is measured ( Yasmin AnanathasyApi
tath idham padham mitham)






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