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 SrI:

 NAMSTHE ALL,

 I WOULD LIKE SHARE THIS WONDEFUL INFORMATION WITH  YOU ALL DIRECT 
FROM MESSAGE ARCHIVES.
PRANAMAMS
KRISHNAPRIYA

Dear Sri BalAji Narasimhan :

Your  question is an excellent one : Why is there only one PaadhukA 
that is worn by MalOlan , the AarAdhanA Moorthy of   Ahobila Matam 
Jeeyars ? How come the other Paadhukai is missing in His dhivya 
MangaLa Vigraham ?


Here is the legendary answer for your question below : 

The answer is :

It all goes back to a BahudhAnya ( BaudhA + anya ) samvathsaram ( 
1398 C.E) , PurattAsi Month , Sukla Paksha Panchami dinam ,  a 
Thursday , when a Young man of 20 years age by the name , KidAmbi 
SrinivAsan stood on the Upper Ahobilam and was about to start to 
perform his MangaLAsAsanam of Nava Narasimhars . He had just taken 
his bath in BhavanAsini river , performed his nithya 
karmAnushtAnams . As this young scholar walked towards the 
Sannidhis , an elderly SanyAsi appeared before Kidambi SrinivAsar . 
Our young visitor prostrated before the elderly SanyAsi and shared 
with Him  the dream that had brought him to Ahobila KshEthram The 
SanyAsi smiled and acknowledged that it was He who had invited the 
young scholar from Melkote to Ahobilam and asked the young scholar 
to accept SanyAsAsramam . The elder
Yathi Saarvabhoumar blessed the younger scholar with His own saffron 
robes ( KaashAya Vasthram) and performed PrEksha Manthra UpadEsam to 
initiate him in to the fourth aasramam . The elder Yathi 
Saarvabhoumar went into AchArya RaamAnuja Sannidhi inside the temple 
of Upper Ahobilam and took the ThridhaNDam resting on the hands of 
BhAshyakArar and blessed KidAmbi SrinivAsar with it . The elderly 
SanyAsi , who was none other than BhagavAn Narasimhan gave the name 
of SaThakOpa Jeeyar to the young SanyAsi .

Lord NarasimhA commanded the new Jeeyar to perform AarAdhanam for 
Lord Narasimhan and travel from village to village with Lord 
Narasimhan to bless  aasrithAL's with SamAsrayaNams and  
BharanyAsams and to protect them . Lord Narasimha appearing as the 
elder SanyAsi gave His own sankha chakrams  to the newly initiated 
SanyAsi ( SrI SaThakOpa Jeeyar) for performing SamAsrayaNams during 
his assigned misison .

The young SanyAsi had one doubt now .  He asked the Lord as to which 
of the Nava Narasimhan he should perform AarAdhanam . The elder 
SanyAsi replied : " Close your eyes and meditate on the nava 
NarasimhAs . One of them will bless You . I am the One who appeared 
in Your dream and invited you here .We have blessed You with SanyAsa 
Aasramam " and disappeared right in front of the astounded young 
sanyAsi .

Sri SaThakOpa Jeeyar performed aarAdhanam for all the nava 
NarasimhAs following the command of His AchAryan , closed his eyes 
thereafter and held his hands in a supplicatory mode and said " 
Praseedha" (Bless me)  . Immediately , the ArchA Moorthy of Lord 
Narasimhan embracing MahA Lakshmi seated on His left side  and 
holding abhaya Mudhrai  on His right hand and   Sankha ?Chakrams on 
His other two (upper) hands jumped in to the  cupped  hands of SrI 
SaThakOpa Jeeyar . Sri Lakshmi Nrusimhan (MalOlan) came in such a 
hurry that He had 
Time to get into only one of His PaadhukAs. He left the other 
Paadhukai in His aasthAnam .
MalOlan was so eager to start on His sanchArams with Sri SaThakOpa 
Jeeyar that He did not even notice that He had only one PaadhukA . 
He did not go back to recover His other PaadhukA. He has returned to 
His aasthAnam many times at Upper Ahobilam to unite with His Moola 
BhEram with the successors of Sri Adhi VaNN SathakOpa Jeeyar but did 
not want to recover HIs other Paahduka and thereby erase the 
incident associated with His historic rush
to bless His hand-picked  Jeeyar on that BhaudhAnya-PurattAsi-Sukla 
Paksha Panchami dinam some 606 years ago . At that historic 
time ,Garudan at His Thiruvadi held on to the Lord ; AdhisEshan 
above His head held on . MahA Lakshmi clasped Her lord tightly , 
when He was moving like chandamArutham .One of the Paadhukais 
however could not match the speed of the Lord . The Paadhukai that 
took the first step to transport the Lord ( on the Right foot) held 
on . That on the Left foot got left behind.

That is why  , we see Only One Paadhukai on the Paadha YugaLam of 
MalOlan's archA Moorthy that receives AarAdhanam daily from the 
Azhagiya Singars . It is the commemoration of a historic event .

Srimath Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam  ,
Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan












 
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