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Sri:
SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,
Translation of Paaduka Sahasram by U.Ve. Sri V.N. Vedanta Desikan
Swamin: 

70. BharatAshvasanEShu pAdashabdham vasuDhAshrOtrasamudhBhavO munIndhra:
paTathi thvayi pAdhukE! thathasthvam niyatham rAmapadhAdhaBhinnaBhUmA 

Oh Paaduka! On the occassions of Bharata consoling himelf (while he 
returned to Ayodhya without Rama), Valmiki uses the word "feet" 
while referring to You. Evidently Your greatness is the same as that of 
Rama's lotus feet, without any difference, whatsoever.

Namo Narayana,
Adiyen,SriMuralidhara Dasan

NOTES BY V.SADAGOPAN(V.S)
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1) UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Oh RanganAthA's PaadhukhE ! 
You protected BharathA for fourteen long years without 
the involvement of His Lord's sacred feet . VibhishaNaa 
on the other hand was saved by the holy feet of Your Lord 
without Your help. Therefore , it appears that the Lotus 
Feet of Your Lord and Yourself supporting those Feet 
have equal potency in protecting those that seek refuge 
of either of You .Sage Valmiki refers to this amazing 
relationship between You and the Lord's sacred feet 
that You support and protect.

2) Srimadh Andavan's anubhavam : Oh PaadhukhE ! When Bharathan 
and the Citizens of AyOdhyA prayed to Lord RaamA at ChitrakUtam
to return to AyOdhyA and become the King ,He refused . Bharathan
received Yourself as a represetative of Sri RamachandrA 
and returned . At that time, He told the sad citizens that 
" You are indeed the Sacred Feet of the Lord Himself . 
Please do not think otherwise ". Therefore You are not 
differnet from Your Lord's sacred Feet .

The inner meaning is that the Lord Himself incarnates 
in the form of AchAryAs .

3) Here Swami Desikan refers to BharathA's consoling words to
the sorrowful citizens of AyOdhyA at the time of returning back
to NandigrAm from ChithrakUtam with the Sri Raama 
PaadhukhAs on his head. BharathA said according to 
Sage VaalmIki : " thvam Raama PaadhAth abhinna bhUmA,
niyatham ". You are not different from the sacred Feet
of Your Lord in glory .This is certain ....V.S 






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