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Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

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


856. nAdhE padhAvani! thaThA thava sannivEshE
nirvEshanakramamasahyamapAchikIrShu:
yaIrEva lOchanashathaIraBhivIkshathE thvAm
thaIrEva pannagapathi: shruthimAn baBhUva

Oh Paaduka! You are a form taken by Adisesha. He himself wished to 
enjoy your form and melody simultaneously. He was not prepared to 
bear the time-lag between seeing and hearing, even if it would be 
trivially small. So he acquired, by Your grace the unusual faculty of 
hearing through the eyes themselves. His hundreds of eyes become, 
themselves, so many ears as well. He thus became previleged to see 
and hear You synchronously.

(1. The Indian traditional belief is that the serpent has no separate 
hearing organ except the eyes. It is so named too. 
2. Even Nityasooris cherish to worship and hear Azhvar.)


Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

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

SlOkam 856

1) UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Swamy Desikan focuses on
AadhisEsha enjoying the sound and sight of the PaadhukAs with
His two thousand eyes. It is generaly believed that eyes of the snake
acts as an organ of sight as well as hearing. Swamy Desikan states 
that AadhisEshan is intently experiencing the pleasures of seeing 
the beautiful PaadhukAs in movement with His eyes. Swamy 
Desikan observes: " Oh PaadhukE ! AadhisEsha can not wait
even for one second to enjoy both your beautiful form and 
the delectable sounds created by You as You move around through 
the jingling of Your various gems. He wants to take in both Your
beauty and Your sunAdhams and uses His two thousand eyes to 
accomplish that goal. As a result, He becomes known for His
sense of hearing ". 

2) SrImath Andavan's anubhavam: AadhisEshan has great joy in seeing 
Your beautiful body and Your naadham as You move. He wanted to
enjoy them simultaneously. For ordinary snakes, it is hard to 
concentrate on both the seeing and hearing at the same time. 
Therefore, AadhisEshan converted His eyes to be both the seeing organ 
and the hearing organ so that He can have both the cognitive 
functions enmeshed in His eyes. 

3) Oh PaadhukE ( Padhaavani) ! AadhisEshan(Pannaga Pathi: ) has 
uncontrollable eagerness in enjoying Your auspciious sounds and Your 
roopam ( Tava naadhE taTA tava SamnivEsE asahyam nirvEsana ). He 
wanted to do away with any time delay between the seeing and the 
hearing faculites (kramam apAchikeershu:). He empowered
His hundreds of eyes to seve as the sight and hearign organs ( Yai: 
lOchana sathairEva ThvAm abhiveekshathE thairEva sruthimAn 
Bhabhoova )...(V.S ). 





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