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 SrI:

Dear BhakthAs:

The 17th slOkam of SrI DevanAyaka PanchAsath is 
the second of the thirty slOkams saluting the specific
beauty of each limb of the Lord and Aabharanams
found there. 

The Seventeenth SlOkam of SrI DevanAyaka PanchAsath
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Mugdha-smithAmrutha subhEna mukhEndhunA tE
sangamya samsarana samjvara sAnthayE na:
sampadhyathE VibhudhanATa samAdhi yOgyA
sarvaryasou kuDila kunthala kAnthi roopA 

Meaning of the slOkam :
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Oh Dhaiva NaayakA! The moonlight shining during
the night has the power to quell the mental afflictions 
of the people. Your beautiful face(Thirumukha MaNDalam)
is the cool orbit of the Moon ( Chandra BhimBham). When
You welcome the chEthanams with Your beautiful smile,
that becomes the cool moonshine (nilavu) to enhnace 
the beauty of Your moon-like face.The dark and curly 
black tresses of Yours remind us of the dark night ,
where the Moon is shining beautifully and spreading
its cool rays. When we meditate on the lustre of Your
beautiful face and the dark hue of Your curly , black
tresses , our joy from that aanandha anubhavam multiplies
many fold. Our scorching samsAric afflictions (Taapams)
and the unbearable fever are quenched by that meditation. 
Indescribable indeed is the beauty and the vaibhavam of
Your dark and curly hair ! 

Additional Comments:
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Lord DhaivanAyakan has a beautiful smile on His face
(mugdha smitha Mukham). That nectar-like beauty of 
the Lord's smile corresponds to the cool and rejuvenating
Moon ( Mugdha smitha amrutha subhEna tE mukha indhu
sampadhyathE). That Moon (Your smile bearing face)
mingles with the assembly of the curly and dark locks
of Your lustrous hair resembling the dark night 
( tE mukha IndhunA kuDila kunthaLa kAnthi roopA
asou sarvarI sangamya ). That union of the nectar of 
Your smiling face (Moon) with the dark hued and curly 
hair ( dark Night) becomes appropriate for our meditation
(sangamya samAdhi yOgyA sampadhyathE). That combimed meditation 
of the Moon of Your face with Your dark locks of Kesam 
becomes a fit medicine to banish the terrible fever of
SamsAram( na: samsarana samjvara sAnthayE sampadhyathE).

The dark, curly locks and the Face of the Lord a la Kuresar
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In his 31st SlOakm of SrI VaradarAja Sthavam , KurEsar 
compares the Lord's radiant face to the Sun and the dark
locks of hair to the moonless night :

" gamithA Tava vakthra chithrabhAnO:
parabhAgam nanu kounthalI tamisrA "

Here , KurEsar suggests the unlikely presence of 
darkness and brightness at one place adds to 
each other's separate beauties ( parabhAgam).With this 
reference, KurEsar provides the inspiration for Swamy Desikan 
to compare the Lord's smile-adorning face to the Moon 
instead of the Sun (a la Kuresar).

The mingling of that lustre from the Face (Moon) with 
the dark tresses ( dark night) does not have the need
for parabhAgam. SrIvathsAngAcchAr Swamy covers the ParabhAgam
aspect , which refers to the union of darkness and Light 
at the same time . This is agaDitha gaDanam for the Lord.
Swamy Desikan develops this theme in His sthuthi of 
the Lord of Kaanchipuram, whose name is DevarAjan.

In SrI VaradarAja PanchAsath , Swamy Desikan develops 
the above description of KurEsar and has an extraordinary
poetic vision of the unison of the Crown of the Lord with
the black tresses and His cool Moon-like face :

Mukha chandra mouLi dinakara 
madhyasTithastava chikura bhArAndhakAra:
agaDitha gaDanA sakthim 
sathyam sTApayathi Daasasatya samagrAm
--SrI Achyutha sathakam : 34th slOkam

(Meaning): Oh The Lord true to His devotees! Your bright
and beautiful face ( Thirumukha MaNDalam) is like the cool
and comforting (full) Moon.The radiance of Your crown
is reminiscent of the bright Sun. The dark assembly of
hair in between Your Crown and the Thirumukha MaNDalam
is dense and dark like (a moonless) night. It is rare 
indeed for some one to experience the bright Sun and 
the cool Moon together.The sight of both of them , when
having Your Sevai a testament to Your agaDitha gaDanA
Sakthi( power to unite things and principles , which 
can not be experienced together normally).

Mukha Chandran (Moon) , Dinakaran(Sun) and andhakAram
( Darkness of the night) are united here by Swamy Desikan.

What Swamy Desikan referred to in the 17th slOkam of 
SrI DhiavanAyaka PanchAsath as the union of the dark night 
( black tresses of the Lord) with the Moon of the Thirumukha 
manDalam (Face of the Lord) and the blessings derived from 
that union ( destruction of the fever of SamsAram) is taken up 
one step further in the 34th slOkam of the Achyutha Sathakam , 
which was composed by Swamy Desikan after SrI DevanAyaka PanchAsath.
Both of them have roots thus in Swamy KurEsar's 31st SlOkam of 
SrI VaradarAja Sthavam , which was composed in front of 
Lord VaradarAja of Kaanchi at the request of 
Bhagavath RaamAnujA . 

The next slOkam (18th) of Sri DhiavanAyaka PanchAsath is one of
adiyEn's favorite slOkam and it salutes the dhivya soundharyam 
of the auspicious face of Lord DevanAthan .

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

P.S: adiyEn invites Your participation in the RathnAngi 
Kaimkaryam for SrI DhaivanAyakan of ThiruvahIndhrapuram
with anjali-bhaddha hastham . It is scheduled for poorthi 
with His anugraha sankalpam on October 5, 2003
(PurattAsi SravaNam day).We are but little instruments
in His hands. 

There are just 134 days left before the planned samarpaNam 
of the RathnAngi for the Lord. Wont You please join in this 
kaimkaryam , support it and recieve the paripoorNa anugraham 
of Lord DevanAthan and SrI HemAbhja Valli ThAyAr?






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