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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 :

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Balaji Narasimhan" <sherlockbalaji@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <srivenugopala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 12:30 PM
Subject: [srivenugopala] Adivan Sadagopan's sole Paduka


> Dear Sadagopan Swamy,

> Of all Gods, Narasimha is the greatest.

> Of all Jiyars, Adivan Sadagopan is the greatest because He was
> the first, and has been blessed by both Malolan and Nammalvar.
>
> Adivan Sadagopan is one without a second. He stands alone.
>
> In this context, maybe, Malolan, to indicate this, has ensured
> that we have but one Paduka of Adivan Sadagopan to meditate
> upon.
********************************************************************
*> Malolan also, I think, has only one Paduka attached to His         *
*> Tiruvadi - at least, I have not been able to see the second with *
*> my eyes, and maybe you could enlighten me in this regard.        *
*********************************************************************

 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 succesors of
Sri Adhi VaNN SathakOpa Jeeyar but did not want to recover HIs other
Paahduka and thereby erase the incident assoicated 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 receieves AarAdhanam daily from
the Azhagiya Singars . It is the comemoration of a historic event .

Srimath Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam  ,
Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan





>
> So, it is fitting that our one supreme Diety, and our one
> supreme Acharya, both sport but one Paduka!
>
> It is only today I have learnt that there is only one Paduka of
> our founder Jiyar. But, understanding the significance of this
> has doubled my devotion, not halved it!
>
>
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