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Dear Bhagavatas:

In his book "Acharya Hridayam" of Azhagiya Manavala Perumal Nayanar, 
Sri B.S.S. Iyengar Swami has quoted the following sloka from a work 
called "Lokacharya Panchasat" attributed to Swami Vedanta Desikan, 
under the title "A Homage from one genius to another"

"VaNee puNya sudhaapagaam sathagitah svairam vigaahyaadaraat
Aaneeyaamrutamatra chakraturubhaou paaNeeya saalaatmakam /
Yow vaagbooshaNa dEsikEndra hridaya abhikya prabandhadvayam
Tau vandE bhuvanaarya sundaravarau krishNaatmajou dEsikou //"

(Vedanta Desika ? Lokacharya Panchasat ? 10)

Meaning as given by Sri B.S.S. Iyengar Swami:

"I prostrate the two Acharyas, Lokacharya and Azhagiya MaNavaaLan, 
the sons of KrishNapaadar, one of the two famed compositions composed 
by them, the ornament of the sayings (Sri Vachana bhooshaNam) and the 
inner core (Achaarya Hridayam) of the foremost Acharya (Nammazhwar), 
as if nectar brought here like the cool drink in a stall (for the 
weary traveler), from the flood of nectar called the sacred 
utterances of SathagOpa, with the exhilaration of plunging in it with 
abandon"

We have never heard of such a work by Swami Vedanta Desikan. If it 
had been really written by Swami Desika, Scholars of SrivaishNava 
Satsampradayam would have definitely commented on it or at least 
referred to it in their numerous works in these 700+ years. There 
seems to be a total absence of such references and this renders the 
work susceptible to doubt its authorship. 
 
Some have suggested that it was written by some latter day scholar 
interested in projecting a kind of rejoinder to the now famous verse 
of Pillai Lokacharya - praising Swami Desikan.

"Seeronru Thoopul Tiruvenkatamudaiyaan 
Paar onrac chonna pazhamoziyul
Ore onru taanE amiyadO daaraNiyil Vaazhwaarkku
VaanErap pOmaLavum Vaazhvu"

If any comments / references to the work from Poorva Acharyas can be 
quoted, it would help in confirming the claim.

I invite scholars to throw light on this with adequate PramaNams.

Dasoham
Anbil Ramaswamy







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