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SrI:

Dear BhakthAs of Lord Dhaiva Naayakan :

Thirty First SlOkam ( The Abaya Hastham )
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akshOpaNeeya karuNAmbhudhi vidhrumAbham
bhakthAnuranjanam AmartyapathE Thvadheeyam
nithyAparAdha-chakithE hrudhayE madheeyE
dhatthAbhayam sphurathi dakshiNa paaNi padhmam

General Meaning:
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Oh Dhaiva NaayakA! Your uplifted right hand grants
freedom from fear (abhayam) to Your adiyArkaL and 
makes them happy. This abhaya hastham is like the coral
born from the Ocean of Your mercy and with its red hue 
shines with exquisite and divine beauty. This sacred hand 
of Yours stands firmly in adiyEn's heart and comforts adiyEn,
who constantly acquires pApams and is afraid of their fruits. 

Additional Comments:
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Lord's KaruNA samudharam (KaruNAmbhudhi) is described 
as " AkshOpaNeeyam " or one which is imperturable or unagitated. 
That ocean of Mercy is vast and still. Out of that Ocean of mercy 
and compasison for His adiyArs rises the right hand of the Lord , 
which is like the beautiful red coral (VidhrumaAbham) born out of 
that ocean of KaruNA. When a suffering jeevan sees that 
reassuring abhaya hastham , all his sorrows are forgotten 
and his mind is filled with joy ( Bhaktha anuranjanam Thvadheeyam
DakshiNa PaaNi Padhmam).That powerful hand of Yours offering
protection to all janthus shines in my heart , which is afraid
of the daily trespasses to Your saasthrEic injubctions .

That Abhaya Hastham ( outstretched Palm)appears to say halt ;
that gesture suggesting to stop indicates that it
is enough to perform SaraNAgathy to the Lord only once 
and there is no need to repeat that performance of SaraNAgathy 
to be assured of His protection. He seems to say through His
abhaya hastham , "alam" (pOthum /enough).He is easily satisfied 
with that one time SaraNAgathy through AchAryAs and does 
not need any more persuasion to protect the Jeevan after
that act of Prapatthi (UpAya anushtAnam ).

PerumAL has a title as SaraNAgatha Samrakshakan 
and that He demonstrates through His abhaya hastham. 
It is the manifestation of His DayA Kaaryam. 

Swamy Desikan salutes the Lord's inner hand (abhaya
hastham) as having the hue of a red coral. To comprehend 
the origin of the redness of His Abhaya Hastham pointed towards 
the SaraNagatha Janams , one has to refer to the SrI VardarAja 
Sthava slOkam of KurEsar(46th SlOkam). Here KUresar
gives three reasons for the Lord's palms having a tender 
red color (like Coral or the tip of a creeper). The AchAryan 
wonders whether that coral like color was acquired during 
KrishNAvathAram , where He had to crawl on His knees 
and hands as an infant at the houses of the Gopis , 
which led to the reddening of His palms (Vraja sadana anganEshu 
rinkhAtha kim?) . He wonders whether another contributing
factor for the reddening of the Palms could be due to 
the constant handling of the stick (kOl) used for grazing 
cows and leaning heavily on it ( gOpa gOshtyAm gOyashti 
grahaNavasAth vaa?) . Yet another reason is given 
to us holding the ropes and prodding stick (Haya naya
tOtthrayOr vaa?) as PaarthasArathy at Kuru KshEthram .

SlOkam 32: (The Beauty of the Chest of the Lord )
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dhurdhAntha dhaithya visikha ksahtha-pathrabhangam
verasya tE ViBhudhanAyaka Baahumadhyam
SrIvathsa Kousthubha RamA VanamAlikAnkam 
chinthAnubhUya labhathE charithArTathAm na:

General Meaning
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Oh Dhaiva NaayakA! The unrighteous asurAs fight with You 
in battles and wound Your chest with their arrows. You
destroy them and yet bear the welt originating from
those arrows of the asurAs like a reminder of those
victorious battles. These arrow marks criss crossing
each other on Your chest appear like a varNakkOlam 
( geometric patterns with different hues).On the same 
Chest are seen the blue birth mark ( maRu) celebrated as 
SrIvathsam, the red gem known as Kousthubham ,
the wild flower garland revered as VanamAlai
( Garland made up of wild flowers) and on top
of every thing adorning Your chest is the golden-hued
MahA LakshmI , who defines Your auspicious svabhAvam
and Svaroopam . All of these special adornments on
Your chest shed multiple reflections on the VarNakkOlam
caused by the asurA's arrows . AdiyEn's mind enjoys 
the Sevai of that Valorous chest marked by so many
auspicious lakshaNams and considers itself as 
the most fortunate among all chEthanams.

Additional Comments:
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As the Lord of DEvAs, SrI DevanAthan took many
VibhavAthArams (Raama, KrishNa) and fought with
dhushta asurAs ( DhurdhAntha dhaithyA:). In the fierce battles 
with these asurAs like RaavaNa , Lord Raamamchandra recieved
powerful arrows from His enemy's bow and had wound marks on His 
chest and these wound marks criss crossed each other and
looked like a multihued geometric design ( Dhaithya visikha 
kshatha pathra bhangam). Visikha kshatam means the welts
arising from the arrows of the enemies ( ambhhaLinAl 
uNDAkkappatta TazhumpuhaL).These welts are reminders 
of Your immense victories over these unrighteous 
asurAs. On that valorous chest are also seen other
signs like SrIvathsam, Kousthubha gem , MahA Lakshmi 
and the never fading Vana Maalai known as Vaijayanthi ,
all of which mark Your SarvEsvarathvam.Our minds(na:chinthA:)
enjoy (anubhooya) Your heroic chest housing many subha 
LakshaNams and attains parama soubhAgyathathvam ( charitArTathAm
labhathE).

NamO SrI DevanATAya,
Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan 

P.S: May the Abhaya Hastham of Lord DevanAthan 
inspire you to join in His RathnAngi Kaimkaryam.
adiyEn has acepted the sponsorship of the abhaya hastham
of Lord DevanAthan's RathnAngi. We are looking for Sponsors 
to be linked with the creation of new Sudarsanam 
and Sankham on the Lord's upper hands.These aayudhams 
were offered by the Bhattars to this Kaimkaryam .They are 
no longer able to . The sponsorships of the Sankham and
Chakram as well as rthe Gadhai of PerumAL on the left
lower hand has been freed now for individual sponsorship
and anyone intersted in sponsoring these weapons of the Lord 
as a aprt of the RathnAngi Kaimkaryam are requested to
let me know at your earliest convenience so they can be 
reserved for you. One bhakthar has accepted responsibility 
for the rathna Thiruvadi of the Lord of ThiruvahIndhrapuram. 






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