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SrI:

Dear BhakthAs of Lord Dhaiva Naayakan :
We will enjoy the beauty and the power of 
the ThiruvadigaL of Lord DhaivanAyakan today.

Fourty First SlOkam ( Salutations to The Lord's Thiruvadi)
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PaashAna nirmitha tapOdhana dharmadhAram
bhasmanupAhitha narEndra KumAra bhAvam
samvAhitham Thridasa nATa RamA-MaheebhyAM
SaamAnya dhaivatham usanthi padham Thvadheeyam 

General Meaning:
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Oh DhaivanAyakA! The power of Your sacred feet are 
limitless. During RaamAvathAram , they restored life
to the wife of Sage Gouthama , who was existing as a stone
by the road side due to her husband's curse over her
marital infidelity. The contact with the dust from Your
sacred feet cleansed her of all the sins and returned her to
erstwhle status as the revered wife of a great sage. 
During KrishnAvathAram , AsvatthAma vowed to kill even 
the embryo of the last of the PaaNDavAs and sent 
a powerful arrow named ApaaNDava asthram to the
womb of Uttharai , who was carrying the seed of
PaaNDavAs. That asthram burnt the live embryo and 
reduced it to ashes. As the dearest friend of PaaNDavAs,
You entered the womb of Queen Utthirai and through
Your paadha sparsam restored that assembly of ashes 
in to a living child, which became King Parikshith 
later and protected the lineage of PaaNDavAs from
disappearance . SrI Devi and BhUmi DEvi affectionately
press those mysterious and powerful ThiruvadigaLs 
of Yours . The learned ones praise those ThiruvadigaLs,
which have the power to bring back to life stone and
ash and recognize that Your ThiruvadigaLs are 
the common property of all the sentient beings. 

Additional Comments:
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Our Lord's ThiruvadigaL have limitless power to
cause miracles. One of them is AhalyA Saapa VimOchanam.
AhalyA was staying as a stone (PaashAnam). Lord Raamachandran's
Paadha rENu came in to contact with AhalyA resting as
a stone by the way side and restored her back to 
her former human form as the the SahadharamchAriNi of 
the Sage Gouthama ( PaashaNa nirmitha TapOdhana dharma
dhAram). During the KrishNAvathAram , those Thiruvadis
created a young PaaNDava prince from the ashes resting
in the womb of a PaanDava queen ( Bhasmani upAhitha 
NarEndra KumAra BhAvam). Those sacred Thiruvadigal 
Jumped on the hoods of the Serpent KaaLingan. They
roamed the DaNDakA forests in search of SitA PirAtti. 
They got tired. Therefore Both SrI Devi and BhU DEvi
are pressing those sacred feet with their gentle hands
to remove the aches and pains of thos ThiruvadigaLs of 
the Lord. During Thrivikrama avathAram , the very same 
sacred feet shot up and measured the earth and heaven . 
Those sacred feet blessed every jeevan and devAs with 
the Paadha Sparsam . All of the people of the word 
got sanctified with the sparsam (touch ) of
those Paadhams , which became the wealth of all (Thvadheeyam
Padham SaamAnya Dhaivatham bhabhUva). This is the view of 
all learned ones says Swamy Desikan. 

SlOkam 42: (VarNanam of the Lord's fingers of the feet)
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avarjithApi:anushajya nijAmsu jAlai:
DevEsa dhivya Padha Padhma dhaLAyithAbhi:
anyAbhilAsha parilOlamidham madheeyam
angIkrutham hrudhayamanguLibhi: svayam tE

General Meaning
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Oh Dhaiva NaayakA! the fingers on Your Thiruvadis 
are slightly bent and are beautiful to look at.
One wonders whether they are slightly bent because 
of the weight of the lustre that they have to bear. 
Your fingers of the feet and toes are soft and are
red like the petals of the lotus flower. They have
charmed my mind with their beauty and have kept my
mind under their control . Prior to their power of
vaseekaraNam , my mind was wandering restlessly 
after all worldly objects .

Additional Comments:
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The beauty and power of the anguLis ( fingers of 
the feet) of Lord DeavanATan are saluted in this 
slOkam. Swamy Desikan confesses that his heart was 
lusting after all kinds of non-lasting pleasures 
( madheeyam idham hrudhayam anya abhilAsha
parilOlam) until it had the blessings of the Sevai of 
the soft and beautiful toes of the Thiruvadis of
the Lord of Thiruvayindhai.Those fingers of the feet of 
the Lord are slightly bent inward as if they have been
influenced by the assembly of the brillinat rays emanting 
from the nails of the Lord ( nija amsu jaalai: anushajya
aavarjithAbhi: iva). Those fingers of the feet appear like
the petals of the soft and beautiful red Lotus. Here the Lord's
Thiruvadi is compared to the tender and beautiful-to-behold
red lotus and the fingers of the Thiruvadi are compared to
the petals of that red lotus. 

NamO SrI DevanATAya,
Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan 

P.S: May Lord DevanAthan's beautiful ThiruvadikaL that 
inspired Swamy Desikan inspire You all as well
to join in Lord Devanathan's RathnAngi Kaimkaryam ! 







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