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Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

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

895. svacChAkArAm shruthisuraBhithAm svAdhuBhAvOpapannAm
     mArgEmArgE mahithaviBhavam pAdhukE! thIrthaBhEdhaI:
     shIthasparshAm shramavinayinIm gAhathE mandhamandham
     krIdAlOla: kamalanilayAdhatthahasthO yuvA thvAm

Oh Paaduka! The Lord putting His feet into You may be compared to His 
getting into a holy water stream like Kaveri to enjoy water-sport 
with Mahalakshmi. 

You have a clean spotless, lustrous appearance. You smell Vedic 
fragrance. You are sweet, delectable and fit for enjoyment. You are 
treated to homage and hospitality, on Your way, by holy savants for 
Your great stature. Being coold, You are a pleasant outfit to the 
Lord. By wearing You, the Lord feels relieved, so to say, of his 
fatigue and tiredness. When He descends into the stream with the Lord 
taking the hand of the consort, Mahalakshmi, and when He wears You, 
He evinces great pleasure, loses Himself in the enjoyment and so He 
does it very slowly, deliberately in a tardy manner.

Like You, the stream water is crystal clear, without any colour or 
impurity; rivers like the Kaveri have been praised by Srutis (say in 
Aghamarshana-sookta). On the way, it has many bathing ghats. It is 
cool enough to remove our sultriness-even that, which results from 
Tapatraya.

The perennial Youth taking Mahalakshmi's hand gets down slowly.


Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

Special Notes by V.Sadagopan (V.S):
 
slOkam 895
 
1. UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: After describing the PaadukAs as 
GangA, Swamy  Desikan states that the Lord's wearing of the PaadhukAs 
is equivalent to His play in water to amuse Himself. Your Lord is 
thrilled to enter in to Your cool waters to have water sport. You 
have all the attributes of the mighty river like CauvEri and GangA . 
Swamy  Desikan says in this context : " Oh PaadhukE! Lord RanganAtha 
enters Your cool inside just as He is  going to engage in His 
favorite water sport. You are like a cool and fatigue-removing stream 
of water or river, which is pure and celebrated by the VedAs and 
having ghats designed by the ancient AchAryAs. Lord RanganAtha enjoys 
entering in to You assisted by the lotuses , which greet Him with 
their hands". 
 
2. SrImath Andavan's anubhavam:Oh PaadhukE ! The eternally young 
RanganAthan (Nithya yuvA ) is given the hand lift by the  lady 
residing in the Lotus flower ( Kamala nilayaa dhatta hastha: ) to 
start His sanchAram for engaging with Her in his water sports. For 
that sanchAram, He enters His sacred feet inside You, which is cool to
experience and is protective against the thorns and hardships of the 
road. He places His sacred feet in You with great affection and 
expectation of SukhAnubhavam during the forthcoming sanchAram to the 
banks of river Cauvery .
 
3. SrImad Andavan's nine fold intrepretation of the assembly of words 
( samabhivyAhAram ) in this slOkam is one of the most beautiful 
commentaries. The assembly of the following four words is the object 
of the nine fold commentary by SrImadhyAdhi AaakUr ANDavan (HH SrI 
SrinivAsa MahA Desikan ) at the behest of  SrImadhyAdhi NammANDavan ( 
HH TherazandhUr ANDavan). That masterly commentary on the assembly of 
four words: " KreeDAlOla: Kamala-nilayA dhatthahasthO yuvA " will be 
taken up seperately . 
 
The Paadhukais are saluted by Swamy Desikan as the One with clear
svaroopam ( svaccha AakAram ), redolent with the fragrace of Vedam 
(Sruthi SurabhithAm/Veda ParimaLam ) , with attributes that are most 
enjoyable to experience ( SvAdhu-bhAva upapannAm ), cool to touch 
( Seetha sparsAm ), remover of fatigue of SamsAram ( srama vinayineem)
and having the glories of being saluted by many PuNYa PurushAs during 
the sancharam from one place to the other  ( maargE maargE  
theerTabhEdhai: mahitha vibhavAm). The Lord desirous of Jala Krredai 
(kreeDA lOla:) travels to the banks of Cauvery on His Paadhukais 
after placing His sacred feet inside them delicately (mandham mandham 
gaahathE ) out of respect  for the Vaibhavam of His Paadhukais (Swamy 
NammAzhwAr).     

V.S.




 
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