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SrimathE RanganAyaki SamEtha Sri RanganAthAya Nama: 

Dear BhakthAs: Sri Murali Rangaswamy is away in India 
until the end of the month.Prior to his journey , he left 
with me the transcription of the slOkams upto 140 of
the Sri PaadhukhA Sahasram and their meanings as given by
Sri U.Ve Dr.V.N.VedAntha Desikan . I will continue with
the Kaimkaryam of adding special notes until Sri Rangaswamy's
return to his US base.
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123: dasavadhana vinAsam vaanchathO yasya chakrE
DasarathamanagOkthim DaNdakAraNya YaathrA
sa cha Bharatha vimarthE sathyasantha: thvyAseeth
Raghupathi PadharakshE raajadhAnIm prayAnthyA 

Sri U.Ve.Dr. V.N.Vedantha Desikan's Translation
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Oh PaadhukA! It is because of You ,returning to the land
that -- RamA's determination to go to DaNdakAraNyA so that 
He could achieve the removal of the demon RavaNA was upheld, 
His father DasarathA's promise was fulfilled and-RamA's assent 
to BharatA's persuasion ( to return to the country) was also
fulfilled in some mannner.

Notes By V.Sadagopan (V.S)
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(1) Sri UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam :

Sri Raama PadhukAs made Him a man of true words.
The PaadhukAs made Him credible with respect to 
the promise He made to His father DasarathA and helped 
Him complete the mission of His incarnation on 
this earth(viz)., the elimination of RaavaNA , 
the evil one.The PaadhukhAs went with BharathA and made 
RaamA fulfil His pledges to His father and the DevAs .

(2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam:

The inner meaning is that our Lord can not grant
Moksham without the help of the sadaachAryAs.It is
because of the help of Paadhukais that RaamA's avathAra
kaaryam was completed , His promise to DasarathA was 
fulfilled .All of these were made possible by the Padhukai's
return to AyOdhyA at the insistence of BharathA .

(3) Swamy Desikan salutes the prabhAvam of the Paadhukais
this way: "Raghupathi PadharakshE !-- thvyaa (Raama:) 
sathyasandha: aaseeth ". Your Lord became the executor
of His prathij~nais (solemn, sworn vows). These vows
were (1)to make true His father's promises to KaikEyi ,
which kept his reputation as a man of true words (anagOkthi) 
(2) to fulfil His avathAra kaaryam and promise to dEvAs 
that He will get the world rid off the evil RaavaNA .
These vows would not have been accomplished but for 
PaadhukA's intervention to return to AyOdhyA as
the representative of RaamA for making Him 
a Sathyasandhan .... V.S 

(4) Swami Desikan chooses the name "Raghupathi PadharakshE "
to address Sri Raama Paadhukais here . The Paadhukais 
not only protected His Paadhams from the sharp
stones and the thorns of the forest but also protected His
words .Thus it provided two kinds of "padha" RakshaNam .

(5) Swami Desikan choses the word "Vipadh " in the context 
of BharathA's insistence or Nirbhandham to get the PaadhukA's 
back to AyOdhyA in the absence of his brother ( Bharatha 
VipardhE RaajadhAnim PrayAnthyA thvayA (Raama:) Sathyasandha:
aaseeth). Vipadh means calamity or adversity or great sorrow.
BharathA's mental anguish over RaamA's rejection of his
request was unfathomable . The immense dayA of the Padhukais 
to lift BharathA out of his " vibhadh " while making RaamA 
a man of true words (Sathyasandhan ) is saluted here..V.S 










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