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>Sri:
>SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,>
>Translation of Paaduka Sahasram by U.Ve. Sri V.N. Vedanta Desikan
>Swamin: 
>
>80. chUdAkapAlavyathiShangadhOSham vimochayiShyanniva viShNupadhyA:
> kruthAdhara: keshavapAdharakshE! biBharthi bAlEndhuviBhUShaNasthvAm
>
>Oh Paaduka! Siva bore You on his head with great relish, in order that 
>Ganga on his head could get relieved of the bad taint acquired to it
>because of the contact with Brahma's skull (That Siva became holy and
>auspicious because of Ganga from the Lord Vishnu's feet falling on him 
is a different story; here Ganga herself is being sanctified.)
>
>Namo Narayana,
>Adiyen,
>SriMuralidhara Dasan

NOTES BY V.SADAGOPAN(V.S):
**************************

1) UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam : Oh Kesava PadhukhAs ! 
You do an important service to Rudran through Your 
unique kindness. Devi GangA residing in the knotted
tresses of Rudran's head originated from Lord VishNu's
Paadhams . She now finds herself next to the skull 
that Rudran wears as a decorative jewelery . Devi GangA 
begins to worry that she as a remover of every one's sins
will no longer be able to do so because of her juxtaposition
with an inauspicous object (viz)., BrahmA's skull .
Oh PaadhukhE of the Lord ! When Rudran wears You on His head ,
You dispell the sorrows of GangA Devi .The amangala object ,
the skull , gets sanctified through contact with You and 
reaches now an auspicious state equal to that of holy GangA.
She sheds her fears of being polluted by the proximity
of that skull and breathes easy .

2) Oh PaadhukE ! Lord SivA adorns You with longing
on His head. He houses Devi GangA on His head.
She resides next to the skull of BrahmA ( Brahma 
kapAlam ). Does Lord SivA place You on His head to 
remove the asuddhi arising from the contact with
the skull ? The inner meaning of this slOkam is that 
any dhOsham that comes the way of BhagavathAs can 
only be eliminated by Sambhandham with other BhagavathAs.

3) Swami Desikan chooses a set of beautiful words 
to describe Lord SivA : "BaalEndhu VibhUshanan "
( The One who wears the young crescent Moon on
His tresses ). He recognizes Devi GangA as 
" VishNu PadhyA " , the One who arose from the sacred
Paadham of Thrivikraman .The GangA Devi who acquired 
sacredness through sambhandham with the Lord's holy
feet has another sambhandham ( Vyathishangam ), while 
she resides on Lord ChandrasEkaran's head .GangA Devi 
worries about" Vyathishanga DhOsham " through association
as a neighbor with the inauspicious skull .Lord SivA
comes now to the rescue of the worried GangA Devi and 
adorns the PaadhukhAs of His Master , Sri RanganAthA
and has the inauspiciousness of the skull banished 
through sambhandham with the sacred PaadhukhAs ..V.S 





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