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Sri:
SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,
Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin:

211. aBhiShEkOthsavAth thasmAth yasyA niryAthanOthsava:
athyarichyatha thAm vandhE BhavyAm BharathadhevathAm

I pay homage to that Paaduka, the Deity of Bharata, 
the auspicousness-conferring Deity, whose Restoration-festival 
(of being returned to Rama's Feet) was more
grand than the coronation festival.

Namo Narayana,
SriMuralidhara Dasan

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan (VS):
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(1) Sri UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: " I bow unto 
the PaadhukAs -the object of worship of BharathA - 
whose reunion with the Lord's holy feet was even 
more worthy of celebration than its coronation 
festival." Here Swamy Desikan begins to celebrate
the union of the Paadhukais with the Lord's sacred
feet as a great festival. He hints that the PaadhukAs 
were longing for such a reunion to resume their
traditional role . 

(2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam: This paddhathi 
is about the reunion of the SatAri with Lord
Raamachandran's feet after foutrten years of 
separtion from them . BharathA presented the Paathukais
to his elder brother and it was a festival like
occasion. That uthsavam was even greater than
the earlier pattAbhishEka uthsavam that Bharathan
arranged .The inner meaning is that Naatha Muni
performed prahtishtai for NammAzhwAr in many 
dhivya dEsams. The beauty of such prathishtA
uthsavam could not excell the beauty of NammAzhwAr's 
service to the Lord as His Thiruvadi.

(3) Swamy Desikan compares two uthsavams here:
(a) pattAbhishEka Uthsavam (b)niryAtanA uthsavam
Latter was the festival of returning the Paadhukais
to the owner , Lord Raamachandran. Swamy says that
the latter uthsavam was far suprior to the former 
( niryAthanA uthsava: athyarichyatha )..VS 








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