Dear BhakthAs:
Today (Sep 24) is PurattAsi SravaNam day is Sukla
Paksha
EkAdasi day as well .Today is the birthday of
Swamy Desikan
as well .
Five years ago , adiyEn returned from a trip to
India and soon after
had a mysterious fever . The Doctors were unable to
determine the cause
of it and I stayed in the hospital for two weeks .
While there , I prayed to
SrI RanganAtha Paadhukais and made a sankalpam to
translate
all of the 1008 SlOkams of SrI RanganAtha Paadhuka
Sahasram (RPS) from
the source grantham of Vaikunta Vaasi SrI
UtthamUr Swamy's scholarly
commentary . The son-in-law of UtthamUr Swamy
, Sri KaraLapAkkam
KrishNan Swamy had lent me the library copy of this
treatise . After adiyEn
made that Sankalpam , the fever went away and
adiyEn came home and in
a month's time adiyEn was blessed to fulfill that
Sankalpam .
UtthamUr Swamy's
commentary is extensive and scholarly for each of
the 1008 slOkams .
The goal was to summarize UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam of
each slOkam into one succinct paragraph . It was a
tough task that got
completed with AchArya anugraham . By this time ,
some one presented me
with the exquisite two volume commentaries of
SrIrangam Srimath Andavan's
commentaries on Sri RanganAtha PaadhukA Sahasram .
Dr.V.N.VedAntha Desikan's
commentaries in English and Tamil for each of these
slokams were
released by LIFCO .
A dear sishya of Pundarikapuram SrImath Andavan ,
Dr.Muralidhar Rangasway
joined me to publish one slOkam of RPS per
day . Dr.Rangaswamy would post
the slOkam and its meaning by Dr.VedAntha
Desikan and adiyEn would add
footnotes for that slOkam consisting of three
parts: (1) UtthamUr Swamy's
anubhavam , (2) SrImath Andavan's anubhavam and (3)
additional commentary on
the individual words or groups of words chosen by
Swamy Desikan during
His inspired moments of composing this Mahaa
Kaavyam less than 2 hours
in front of Lord RanganAtha at Srirangam . It took
five years for both of us
to complete this Kaimakryam .Sri Achutha Raaman of
Bangalore created
a special web site and it was supplemented by the
archives :
Sri Achyutha Raaman's web site can be accessed with
a Google query on
" Padhuka+sahasram ". It is very important to see
the PaadhukA Yanthram
hand drawn by Swamy Desikan Himself on this
sacred day :
As adiyEn stood before Lord
RanganAthan's sannidhi , a flood of memories
associated with the likhitha Kaimkaryam swept
before my mind's eyes .
adiyEn will share some of them with you all
tomorrow.
adiyEn's special thanks to Sri Muralidhar
Rangaswamy of Boston and
Sri Achutharaman of Bangalore for their joint
contributions to this Kaimakryam
over the past five years .
NamO SrI RanganAthaaya ,
Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan
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