Sriman Naaraayanaya Namaha:
Srimathe Ramaanujaya Namaha:
Srimathe Vedaantha Desikaaya Namaha:
I would concur with some positing in this thread saying that
the nAyaki bhAvam was what Sri Desikar used to compose Acyutha
Satakam. But this simple interpretation requires some examination.
According Sri VangIpuram Ramadesikar's work on our
acharyas stothras, Sri Desikar felt as a devanayaki when he was
enjoying the tirumeni of Tiruvahindrapuram Devanathan
also known as Achuthan. Apparently prAkrit ( that came from
Prakruti or Sanskrit ), since having a solid grammar, was sanctioned
for the women to use freely. Demonstrating PrAkrit as women's lingua
franca, several dramas were written in those days with nAyakis
speaking in prAkrit and the nAyakan speaking in Sanskrit.
Immitating that style, Sri Desikar desired to compose
a long set of verses on DevanAyakan in PrAkrit.
Apparently Sri Desikar did not write many other works in Prakrit.
And DevanAyakanwas was the only one to enjoy the outpouring of Sri
Desikar in all three languages that he was proficient in ( Sanskrit,
Tamil and PrSkrit.)
In this stothram, Swami Desikan did not actually use the full nAyaki
bhavan. He seems to have felt inadequate to sing on Devanayakan.
So he says he felt like a child and was composing the stothras in
prakrit. The main reason was to compose verses pleasing to the ears
like parrot's talk. In verses 2 and 4 he uses the word bAla
explicitly. Thus he felt like an inexperienced child, and chose the
nAyaki bhavam at the same time and chose Prakrit, a clever idea to
use it. He also mentions that Saraswathi spoke 'PrAkrit' when she
was kid and it later became the official 'PrAkrit',
and so he was using the same.
The verse 2 is as follows:
kinkarascca duyI duha sayambu kehiNI vilAsa vAhita mayI|
paNiyA bAleNa maye panjara suya jappiyam va gunAyu pasAyam||
True to Bhakthas, DevanAyaka! Brahma's pathni Saraswathi's child-
speak became Prakrit. I am not yet fully capable yet. So I am
trying to write this stothram in Prakrit. People enjoy the sounds
the parrots make. In the same way, these stothrams coming from my
mouth should give you similar enjoyment.
What a scene setting and modesty!
It is generally said that, like Azhwars, Sri Desikar used the nAyaki
bhava in this stothram, Sri DevanAyaka PancAsath and mummanikovai.
But Sri Desikar mentions in Achuta Satakam and Devanayaka
panchasath that 'he is a bAla'. So he did not fully use
the nAyaki bhavam exploited by the Azhwars.
BTW: DevanAyakan is sung as the ParavAsudeva himself by Sri Desika
in these two stothrams. Sri Desika nicely ties together the nigama
and agama glorifications of Sriman Narayana in these two stothrams.
Adiyen,
Dasan,
R.T.V. Varadarajan
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