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>Sri:
>SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,>
>Translation of Paaduka Sahasram by U.Ve. Sri V.N. Vedanta Desikan
>Swamin: 
>
>SamarpaNa Paddhati: ChaturyI
>
>101. BhajAma: pAdhukE! yABhyAm BharatasyAgrajasthadhA
> prAya: prathiprayANAya prAsThAnikamakalpayath
>
>We pay homage to the two Paadukas, which Rama gave to Bharata (at 
>Chitrakoota) as a sure symbol of his later return (to Ayodhya), as 
>is usually done in the world (under the name parasthana).
>
>Namo Narayana,
>Adiyen,SriMuralidhara Dasan

NOTES BY V.SADAGOPAN (V.S):
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(1)UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Swami Desikan examines 
the reasons why Lord RaamachandrA wore His Paadhukhais ,
when he agreed to enter the forest to fulfill a vow made by 
His father to His step Mother , KaikEyi.He suggests that 
RaamachandrA might have observed the custom of parasthAnam .
A person , who can not start on a journey at an auspicious 
time sends one or more of his property ahead of him at an 
equally auspicious time.This is the practise is known as
ParasthAnam . Swami Desikan wonders whether RaamA sent 
His Paadhukhais through BharathA at ChithrakUtam in an
auspicious time in anticipation of His return to AyOdhyA 
some fourteen years later. Swami Desikan also wonders 
whether the Paadhukhais were given by RaamA to His brother
BharathA as a safeguard for latter's journey to AyOdhyA
without Him .

(2)Srimath Andavan's anubhavam: The inner meaning of this 
slOkam is as follows: When a Jeevan begs the Lord to come
to him or asks the Lord to call him back to Parama Padham ,
the Lord blesses the Jeevan with a sadAchAryan , who is never 
separated from His (Lord's) sacred feet .The Jeevan seeks 
refuge in that sadAchAryan and pleases him and receives
that SadAchAryan's paripUrNAnugraham to join the Lord
in parama Padham through the performance of prapatthi. 
Without the sadAchArya anugraham , the Jeevan never
attains the boon of parama padha Vaasam and nithya
Kaimkaryam to the Lord there .

(3) There are 20 slOkams in this fourth paddhathi
of Sri RanganAtha PaadhukhA sahasram , SamarpaNa
Paddhathi.Every one of these slOkams deal with 
the gifting of Sri RaamachandrA's paadhukhais 
to His brother at ChithrakUtam and the significance
of that gift.Swami hints in the first slOkam that RaamA 
performed perhaps PrAsthanikam for the purpose of 
PrathiprayANam (return) to AyOdhyA after his exile 
in the forest for 14 years ....V.S 




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