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>Sri:
>SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,
>Translation of Paaduka Sahasram by U.Ve. Sri V.N. Vedanta Desikan
>Swamin: 
>
>116. niyatham aaDhirurOha thvAm anADhEya shakthim
> nija charaNasarOjE shakthim ADhAthukAma:
> sa kaTham itharaThA thvAm nyasya rAmO vijahvE
> druShadh upachitha BhUmoU dhandakAraNya BhAgE
>
>Rama set His feet on You to acquire, for His tender feet, the intrinsic 
>powers You possess; this is certain; if it were not so, how could Rama 
>have walked through the rough rocky Dandaka forest, without wearing You?
>
>Namo Narayana,
>Adiyen,SriMuralidhara Dasan

NOTES BY V.SADAGOPAN (V.S):
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(1) UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: The Rishis of ChithrakUtam
obtained new paadhukhAs from RaamA. BharathA took RaamA's
original PaadhukhAs in procession to AyOdhyA with all
maryAdhais. RaamA did not wear any padhukhAs thereafter 
during his sanchArams in the forests of DhaNdakaa since 
He had given the original PaadhukhAs as a pledge to
BharathA to solemnize Hisreturn to AyOdhyA at the end of 
his fourteen year's of exile in the forest . RaamA did not 
therefore want to deemphasize that pledge through wearing of 
another set of PaadhukhAs . Lord RaamachandrA's feet were 
however protected from the thorns and sharp stones of 
the DhaNdakaa forest by another power. That protection 
came from the PaadhukhAs embraced His feet , when he 
stepped on to them at the request of BharathA prior to 
giving them as His mark of pledge . Part of the inherent 
and natural power of Paadhukais enveloped the Lord's feet 
at that time to protect them during His wanderings 
in the harsh forests of DhaNdakaa. 

(2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam : In the 113rd slOkam ,
Swamy Desikan suggsted that RaamA imparted power to 
His paadhukhais to protect BharathA. Here , Swamy Desikan
reminds us that the Paadhukhais have their own inherent 
sakthi and that RaamA stepped on them to receive a part
of their unlimited power for protection against the harsh
environment of DhaNDakA forest .The inner meaning is that 
the AchAryAs have even greater DayA and patience than
the Lord Himself for correcting the the Jeevans with 
innumerable sins and to prepare them for presentation 
to the Lord , their owner .

(3)Swamy Desikan uses the word "anAdhEyam " here , which is
the opposite of "AadhEyam " , which means to be placed ,
to be contained . " AnAdhEyam " means svAbhAvikma or 
naturally powerful without the sambhandham of anything else 
to empower it . Swamy Desikan had wondered earlier (113th slOkam )
whether RaamA stepped into the PaadhukhAs to empower them 
through AadhEyam (placement)of His sacred feet . In this slOkam , 
Swamy Desikan states that the Paadhukhais (AchAryAs) have their
own inherent sakthi (anAdhEyam )and therefore were able to
share some of that sakthi to protect the Lord's feet ,
when He roamed the forests of DhaNdakaa without them ...V.S

(4) Swamy Desikan uses the owrd "Sakthim " twice in this slOkam :
"thvAm anAdhEya sakthim " in the first Paadham of this slOkam
and " nija charaNa sarOjE Sakthim aadhAthukaama: ". First 
sakthi is the anAdhEya Sakthi of the PaadhukhAs ; the second
sakthi is the derived sakthi from the Paadukais by 
the lotus-soft feet of the Lord .Swamy hints that 
the Lord wanted to absorb part of the natural sakthi
of the Paadhukhais ....V.S 







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