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Dear BhakthAs:

Today (Sep 24) is PurattAsi SravaNam day is Sukla Paksha
EkAdasi day as well .Today is the birthday of Swamy  Desikan 
as well . 

Five years ago , adiyEn returned from a trip to India and soon after 
had a mysterious fever . The Doctors were unable to determine the cause
of it and I stayed in the hospital for two weeks . While there , I prayed to
SrI RanganAtha Paadhukais and made a sankalpam to translate 
all of the 1008 SlOkams of SrI RanganAtha Paadhuka Sahasram (RPS) from
the source grantham of Vaikunta Vaasi SrI UtthamUr  Swamy's scholarly
commentary . The son-in-law of UtthamUr  Swamy , Sri KaraLapAkkam
KrishNan Swamy had lent me the library copy of this treatise . After adiyEn
made that Sankalpam , the fever went away and adiyEn came home and in
a month's time adiyEn was blessed to fulfill that Sankalpam . 

UtthamUr Swamy's commentary is extensive and scholarly for each of 
the 1008 slOkams . The goal was to summarize UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam of
each slOkam into one succinct paragraph . It was a tough task that got
completed with AchArya anugraham . By this time , some one presented me 
with the exquisite two volume commentaries of SrIrangam Srimath Andavan's 
commentaries on Sri RanganAtha PaadhukA Sahasram . Dr.V.N.VedAntha Desikan's
commentaries in English and Tamil for each of these slokams were 
released by LIFCO . 

A dear sishya of Pundarikapuram SrImath Andavan , Dr.Muralidhar Rangasway  
joined me to publish one slOkam of  RPS per day . Dr.Rangaswamy would post 
the slOkam and its meaning by Dr.VedAntha Desikan and adiyEn  would add 
footnotes for that slOkam consisting of three parts: (1) UtthamUr Swamy's 
anubhavam , (2) SrImath Andavan's anubhavam and (3) additional commentary on 
the individual words or groups of words chosen by Swamy Desikan during
His inspired moments of composing this Mahaa Kaavyam less than 2 hours 
in front of Lord RanganAtha at Srirangam . It took five years for both of us 
to complete this Kaimakryam .Sri Achutha Raaman of Bangalore created 
a special web site and it was supplemented by the archives :

http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/oppiliappan/archives/mrps/threads.html

Sri Achyutha Raaman's web site can be accessed with a Google query on
" Padhuka+sahasram ". It is very important to see the PaadhukA Yanthram
hand drawn by Swamy  Desikan Himself on this sacred day :

http://swamydesikan.tripod.com/yantra.html


As adiyEn  stood before Lord RanganAthan's sannidhi ,  a flood of memories 
associated with the likhitha Kaimkaryam swept before my mind's eyes .
adiyEn will share some of them with you all tomorrow.

adiyEn's special thanks to Sri Muralidhar Rangaswamy of Boston and
Sri Achutharaman of Bangalore for their joint contributions to this Kaimakryam
over the past five years . 

NamO SrI RanganAthaaya ,
Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan    


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