Sri Vedanta Desika Sahasranama

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Sri Vedanta Desika Sahasranama

  • Introduction
  • Namas list
  • 1-19 - balya vaibhavangal
  • 20-100 - Divya Namas
  • 101-439 - Satha DhUshaNi, PrakaraNa granthams, Taathparya Chandrikai and Tatthva Muktha KalApam
  • 440-477 - Saccharithra RakshA
  • 478-492 - NikshEpa RakshA
  • 493-523 - Rahasya RakshA
  • 524-680 - PaancharAthra RakshA
  • 681-705 - Sankalpa SooryOdhayam
  • 706-720 - Incidents in Swamy's Life & creation of PaadhukA Sahasram
  • 721-792 - ChillaRai RahasyangaL
  • 793-1006 - SrImath Rahasya Thraya Saaram
  • 1007 - VirOdha ParihAram
  • 1008 - Swamy Desikan's ascent to SrI Vaikuntam.
Book Review (of its' commentary)

DESIKA SAHASRANAMA: Tirukkudanthai Desikan, commentary in Tamil by V.Vasudevachariar; Rs.250. All published by Poundarikapuram Srimad Andavan Asramam, 43-A/10, Asramam Road, Srirangam-620006.

Tirukkudanthai Desikan has also composed Desika Sahasranama on Vedanta Desika. Modelled on the lines of Vishnu Sahasranama, the former has, however, 438 slokas as against 107 in the latter; probably to emphasise the greater importance of Guru vis-a-vis God.

This superb composition is not merely devotional poetry but is a text of literary and spiritual excellence and provides all information on Desika and his works.

The work epitomises the significant points of Vaishnavite philosophy, contests the rival systems of philosophy and answers their criticisms too.

This handy book of Desika Sahasranama is in sloka form and also as Namavali, in Sanskrit, in bold letters, for easy recitation. A detailed Tamil commentary of it has also been brought out, as a separate book. To facilitate easy understanding, the names are given in Sanskrit and Tamil, followed by meaning in Tamil and further explanatory details.

The commentator of this work, Vasudevachariar, has taken enormous pains to explain in simple Tamil, even abstruse points of philosophy, giving copious quotations from Vedas, Puranas, the Ramayana, and the Mahabharata and Desika's works to elaborate the import of each of the 1008 names and the book is a veritable treat for the readers.

The commentator deserves all congratulations and gratitude for undertaking this noble work.

V.N. GOPALA DESIKACHARIAR