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SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin:

726. svacChAkArAm surayuvathaya: svaprathicChandhalakshyAth
gAhanthE thvAm praNathisamayE pAdhukE! sABhimAnA:
sthrIrathnAnAm pariBhavaviDhoU sruShtimAthrENa dhakshAm
nIchaI: karthum narasaKhamunErUrvashImUrujAthAm

Oh Paaduka! The divine damsel Urvashi, born form the thigh of 
Narayana-muni used to haughtily tease all other women-folk on this 
score, But the others have an opportunity of hitting back: they enter 
into You by being reflected on Your lustrous clear surface. They 
would say: You were once born from the Lord's thigh. But we have the 
previlege of entering into and leaving from the Lord's Paaduka 
whenever we like!

Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan(V.S):

SlOakm 726

1) UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Following the above slOkams 
dealing with the reflections of DEvAs , Swamy Desikan shifts 
his attention now to the reflections of the wives of the dEvAs
seen on the gems of the Paadhukais. He says: " Oh PaadhukE!
The most beautiful Urvasi was created by NaarAyaNa Muni from
His thigh to humiliate RambhA , who came to destroy His penance.
After seeing the beauty of Urvasi , RambhA recognized that her 
beauty was no match to Uravsi's and ran away. Urvasi thus helped 
NaarAyaNa Muni , the friend of NarA. She however did not originate
from the most beautiful limb of the Sage. Now , the wives of DevAs 
wishing to conquer the beauty of Urvasi bow to You . At that time,
their images are reflected on Your gems and look as though they
were born anew with exquisitely beautiful bodies. Their hopes of
entering Your blemishless body to attain blemishless beauty therby
seems to have been realized ; further , their new body originates
from You and gives them high status compared to Urvasi , who
originated from a lowly thigh of a holy Muni.

2)The apsaras ladies (deva sthree:/Sura Yuvathaya:)
did not foreget the humilation that they underwent ,
when they went to disturb the penanace of SrI NaarAyaNa 
Rishi at BadrikAsramam ( Sura Yuvathaya: saabhimAnA:).
NaarAyana Rishi , The friend of Naran created the most
beautiful apsaras woman from his thigh (UrujAthA Urvasi) 
to show how low was the beauty represented by RambhA 
and others , who came to disturb his penance and
humiliated the assembly of apsaras headed by RambhA
through the mere creation of Urvasi ( Sura Yuvathaya: 
SaabhimAnA: SthreerathnAm paribhava-vidhou
srushtimAthrENa dakshAm Urvaseem chinthayithvA).
The humiliated women did not ever forget that and
wanted to reduce the beauty of Urvasi compared to
them( srushtimAthrENa dakshAm UrujAthAm Urvaseem 
neechai karthum icchantha:) . How did they plan to
achieve this goal ? They tried to enter Your (PaadhukA's)
shiny body (Svaccha aakAram) during the time of their 
prostration (ThvAm praNithasamayE)before You through 
their reflections on You ( Svaprathicchandha lakshyAth 
gaahanthE)...(V.S). 








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