Sri:
SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,
Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin:
895. svacChAkArAm shruthisuraBhithAm svAdhuBhAvOpapannAm
mArgEmArgE mahithaviBhavam pAdhukE! thIrthaBhEdhaI:
shIthasparshAm shramavinayinIm gAhathE mandhamandham
krIdAlOla: kamalanilayAdhatthahasthO yuvA thvAm
Oh Paaduka! The Lord putting His feet into You may be compared to His
getting into a holy water stream like Kaveri to enjoy water-sport
with Mahalakshmi.
You have a clean spotless, lustrous appearance. You smell Vedic
fragrance. You are sweet, delectable and fit for enjoyment. You are
treated to homage and hospitality, on Your way, by holy savants for
Your great stature. Being coold, You are a pleasant outfit to the
Lord. By wearing You, the Lord feels relieved, so to say, of his
fatigue and tiredness. When He descends into the stream with the Lord
taking the hand of the consort, Mahalakshmi, and when He wears You,
He evinces great pleasure, loses Himself in the enjoyment and so He
does it very slowly, deliberately in a tardy manner.
Like You, the stream water is crystal clear, without any colour or
impurity; rivers like the Kaveri have been praised by Srutis (say in
Aghamarshana-sookta). On the way, it has many bathing ghats. It is
cool enough to remove our sultriness-even that, which results from
Tapatraya.
The perennial Youth taking Mahalakshmi's hand gets down slowly.
Namo Narayana,
SriMuralidhara Dasan
Special Notes by V.Sadagopan (V.S):
slOkam 895
1. UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: After describing the PaadukAs as
GangA, Swamy Desikan states that the Lord's wearing of the PaadhukAs
is equivalent to His play in water to amuse Himself. Your Lord is
thrilled to enter in to Your cool waters to have water sport. You
have all the attributes of the mighty river like CauvEri and GangA .
Swamy Desikan says in this context : " Oh PaadhukE! Lord RanganAtha
enters Your cool inside just as He is going to engage in His
favorite water sport. You are like a cool and fatigue-removing stream
of water or river, which is pure and celebrated by the VedAs and
having ghats designed by the ancient AchAryAs. Lord RanganAtha enjoys
entering in to You assisted by the lotuses , which greet Him with
their hands".
2. SrImath Andavan's anubhavam:Oh PaadhukE ! The eternally young
RanganAthan (Nithya yuvA ) is given the hand lift by the lady
residing in the Lotus flower ( Kamala nilayaa dhatta hastha: ) to
start His sanchAram for engaging with Her in his water sports. For
that sanchAram, He enters His sacred feet inside You, which is cool to
experience and is protective against the thorns and hardships of the
road. He places His sacred feet in You with great affection and
expectation of SukhAnubhavam during the forthcoming sanchAram to the
banks of river Cauvery .
3. SrImad Andavan's nine fold intrepretation of the assembly of words
( samabhivyAhAram ) in this slOkam is one of the most beautiful
commentaries. The assembly of the following four words is the object
of the nine fold commentary by SrImadhyAdhi AaakUr ANDavan (HH SrI
SrinivAsa MahA Desikan ) at the behest of SrImadhyAdhi NammANDavan (
HH TherazandhUr ANDavan). That masterly commentary on the assembly of
four words: " KreeDAlOla: Kamala-nilayA dhatthahasthO yuvA " will be
taken up seperately .
The Paadhukais are saluted by Swamy Desikan as the One with clear
svaroopam ( svaccha AakAram ), redolent with the fragrace of Vedam
(Sruthi SurabhithAm/Veda ParimaLam ) , with attributes that are most
enjoyable to experience ( SvAdhu-bhAva upapannAm ), cool to touch
( Seetha sparsAm ), remover of fatigue of SamsAram ( srama vinayineem)
and having the glories of being saluted by many PuNYa PurushAs during
the sancharam from one place to the other ( maargE maargE
theerTabhEdhai: mahitha vibhavAm). The Lord desirous of Jala Krredai
(kreeDA lOla:) travels to the banks of Cauvery on His Paadhukais
after placing His sacred feet inside them delicately (mandham mandham
gaahathE ) out of respect for the Vaibhavam of His Paadhukais (Swamy
NammAzhwAr).
V.S.
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