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SrI:

Dear BhakthAs of Lord Dhaiva Naayakan :

Thirty DSeventh SlOkam ( Salutations to The Udharam)
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peethAmBarENa parivAravathee sujAthA
dhAsyE nivEsayathi DevapathE dhrusou mE
vinyastha savya kara sangama jAyamAna 
rOmAncha ramya kiraNA rasanA ThvadheeyA

General Meaning:
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Oh DevanAtha! The waist belt(MekalA) holding Your peethAmbharam 
is beautiful to look at and the rays of light arising from it 
spreads all around.When adiyEn looks at those rays, adiyEn 
wonders whether these rays of light originate from the contact 
of Your left hand with Your mEkalai and are expression of
the horripulation ( RomAnjali)experienced by the joyous 
mEkalai. This mEkalai of Yours makes adiyEn's eyes 
a slave of it.(Swamy Desikan visualizes the mEkalai as
a beautiful wife with natural humility of a girl born in
a revered kulam blushing and experiencing horripulations
(mayir KoocchukaL) as a result of the contact with her
husband's hand on her body). 

Additional Comments:
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The mEklai is surrounded by the PeethAmbharam of
the Lord of ThiruvahIndhrapuram (peethAmbharENa 
parivAravathee). That mEkalai is beautiful to
look at (SujAthA or born in a reverd kulam in 
the case of the young bride).The Lord's left hand
comes in to contact with that mEkalai as He positions
His hand in a stylish pose during the sevai to 
His devotees ( vinyastha savya kara sangama bhAvam).
That sparsam of the mEkali with the Lord's left hand
generates horripulations as it were to the mEkalai
(vinyastha savya kara sangama jAyamAn rOmAnja )
and sends out beautiful rays to express the thrill
from that experience ( rOmAnja ramya kiraNA ThavdheeyA
rasanA). The effect of those beautiful rays arising
from the rasanA (mEkali/ottiyANam) is to make adiyEn's
eyes its' slave (Thvadheeya rasanA mE dhrusou dAsyE
nivEsayathi). 

SlOkam 36: (VarNanam of the Lord's Naabhi)
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sthreerathna kAraNam upAttha thrutheeyavarNam
dhaithyEndhra veerasayanam daythOpadhAnam
dEvEsa youna gajEndhra karaabhirAmam 
ureekarOthi bhavadhUruyugam manO mE

General Meaning
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Oh Dhaiva NaayakA! PurANAs describe that the most beautiful
apsaras lady , Urvasi took her birth from Your thigh (i-e).,
You created her out of Your thighs. Vedam says that among 
the four jaahtis ( Brahmins-KshathriyAs-VaisyAs-SudrAs) , 
the VaisyAs came out o Your thigh as well.PurANAs again 
describe that Your thighs served as the heroic place of rest 
(Veera PaLLi koLLum idam) for the Asuras ,Madhu and KaidabhA,
duirng Your avathAram as Lord HayagrIvan.They were placed there 
and crushed to their death by You as punishment for stealing 
VedAs from Brahma Devan. Your thighs also are the places of 
enjoyable rest for the head of Your divine consorts .During those 
occasions, Your strong thighs serve as pillows for their heads.
You are forever youthful (nithya yuvA). Your power as 
a Nithya YuvA is like that of a young elephant full of strength .
Those thighs of Yours resemble the trunk of that youthful elephant 
and pull my mind towards them and keeps my mind under 
their influence . 

Additional Comments:
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Lord DevanAthAn's thighs resembling the trunk of
a powerful , young elephant are linked to four events:

(1) It is the place of birth of the most beautiful apsaras 
by the name of Urvasi . At BadrikAsramam , Lord NaarAyaNa
created Urvasi to charm those who came to distract Him 
from His tapas. They came under her spell completely 
and lost the purpose of their visit. Swamy Desikan 
refers to this incident at BadrikAsramam (Nara-NaarAyaNa
avathAram ) and salutes that thigh of the Lord as 
the reason for the birth of the gem among women 
(Sthree rathna KaaraNam).

(2) Next Swamy Desikan salutes the thigh of the Lord 
of ThiruvahIndhrapuram as the creator of the third
jAthi , VaisyAs ( Reference in Purusha Sookthm passage:
OorU tadhasya Yadh Vaisya:).Swamy Desikan refers to this 
creation of VaisyAs by the Lord from His thighs during
Sarva Hutha Yj~nam as "upAttha thrutheeya varNam".

(3) The Lord of Thiruayindhai sitting as SrI HayagrIvan
on top of the Oushada giri at ThiruvahIndhrapuram
destroyed the kings of AsurAs, Madhu and KaiDaban 
by crushing them on His thigh. At that time, the Lord's 
thigh served as the heroic death bed for the asurA kings
( DhaithrEndhriya veera sayanam).

(4) During His sportive moments with His Devis at His inner
chambers, Lord's thigh serves as the soft pillows for them
( DauyithA UpadhAnam).

Those thighs remind Swamy Desikan of the trunk of 
a powerful young elephant ( Youvana gajEndhra kara 
abhirAmam Bhavath OorU yugam) and he concedes that 
those powerful thighs draw and overpowers his mind 
( Bhavath OorU yugam mE mana: UrikarOthi).

In the 56th slOkam of SrI VaradarAja Sthavam ,
KurEsar describes the extraordinary and matchless 
beauty of the Lord's thighs. Those thoughts are echoed in
Swamy Desikan's vivaraNam (description ) of the thighs
of Lord DevanAthan . The Lord has eternal youth
as Vedam points out:" yuvAakumAra: akumAra youvana sTitham".
KurEsar states that the traditional comparisons of
the beauty of the Lord's thighs to (1)the trunk of 
a beautiful Vaazhai maram ( SaarabhAja: rambhAsthambhA:),
(2)to a trunk ( thumbikkai) of a powerful elephant ( Karivara
KarA:) and (3)to emerald pillars ( kArabhA: maragatha
sthambhA:) are inadequate. KurEsar states that the compared
objects do not have the beauty of the Youthful Lord's 
thighs and can not have the power of creating the world . 
Swamy Desikan elaborates on these themes in his 
salutation to the thighs of Lord DeavanAthan
of ThiruvahIndhrapuram. 

NamO SrI DevanATAya,
Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan 

P.S: May the Lord's beautiful Mekalai sending out 
beautiful rays of jyOthi and the powerful
thighs of the ever youthful Lord of ThiruvahIndhrapuram 
inspire you to join in His RathnAngi Kaimkaryam ! 







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