Sri: SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha, Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin: 201. pAdhapAdhupahruthA raGhUdhvahAdh AlavAlamiva pITamAshrithA aBhyaShEchi BhavathI tapODhanai: pArijAthalathikEva pAdhukE! Oh Paaduka! The Sages performed the abhisheka to You, who looked like a Parijata creeper transplanted from the tree (Kalpaka) that Rama is, onto the throne, which is a water-trench, so to say. Namo Narayana, SriMuralidhara Dasan Special Notes by V.Sadagopan(VS): ********************************** (1) Sri UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Oh PadhukE! You are like the branch of PaarijAthA tree known as RaamA. Great sages like VasishTA brought You from ChithrakUtam and planted You in the fertile soil known as the throne of the Raghus. Then, they fed You with nutritous waters at the time of Your coronation bath and nurtured You to become another PaarijAthA tree to fulfill the wishes of all the people, who worshipped You . (2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam: The inner meaning here is that SadAchAryAs are like the wish-granting KalpakA tree. (3) Here Swami Desikan compares the Padhukai to the celestial Kalpakaa creeper , that grants all the wishes that one prays for . The Sages performed abhishEkam for that kalpakA tree sittIng on the throne of the Raghu dynasty ( BhavathI PaarijAtha lathikEva TapOdhanai: abhyashEchi). Swamy compares the simhAsanam on which the PaadhukA was seated as "aalavAlam" or the specially prepared soil with boundaries (Paatthi in Tamil ).That Kalpa LathikA seated on the aalavAlam of the simhAsanam was a branch of the kalpakA tree that was RaamA ( RaghUdhvahAth paadhapAth upahrutha AALAVaLAMIVA PEETAM AASRITHAA BHAVATHEE)...V.S
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