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Sri:

SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,

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

745. anukalamupajIvyA dhrushyasE nirjarANAm
thripuramaThanamoULoU shEKharathvam dhaDhAthi
prathipadhamaDhigamya prApthashrungAsi shoUrE-
sthadhapi charaNarakshE! pUrNachandhrAkruthisthvam

Oh Paaduka! What a perfect similitude You bear for the moon! Whereas 
You are helpful, every moment, for protection of the devas, the moon 
is every day losing its digit as food to the devas; You are held in 
respectful adoration by Siva whereas the moon is held in his head; 
even as the moon gets sharpened in its edge on the first day after 
the Full Moon, You acquire additional greatness in every step of 
walk. Nevertheless, You are Full Moon-You are gold in nature.

Namo Narayana,

SriMuralidhara Dasan

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

SlOkam 745

1) UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Here, Swamy Desikan elaborates
on another aspect of the PaadhukAs serving as ChandrA (Gold).
He wonders how the PadhukAs serving as the cresent Moon 
serves also as the golden, full Moon simultaneously.There are 
two intrepretations for this verse. We will stay with the second
intrepretation : " Oh PaadhukE! Every second , You serve as the site
for DevAs to come to get their desired boons. You become then
the crescent Moon on the head of MahEswara , when He bows before 
You in that assembly of dEvAs. You attain greater and greater 
auspiciousness with every step taken by Your Lord riding on You. 
With all these attributes , it is no wonder that You have attained 
the status of the golden full Moon inspite of serving as a phase of 
the Moon (crescent Moon) on MahEswarA's Jadai at other times.

2) SrImath Andavan's anubhavam:Oh PadhukE! all the dEvAs 
approach You and prostrate before You for their welfare.
Lord SivA adorns You as His decoration for His head
and places You reverentially on His head. PerumAL thinks
the world of You and adorns You on His sacred feet often.

3)Oh PaadhukE! You have the appearance of the golden
full Moon ( Thvam PoorNachandrAkruthi: vahasi). That 
Moon has 16 kalais.SaasthrAs say that the devathAs consume 
one kalai each day . The dEvAs use the Kalais of the Moon as 
their nourishing food ( Thvam anukalam nirjarANAm upajeevyA 
dhrusyasE). 

That Moon(Paadukai) is adorned by Lord Siva on His jadai 
and He gets blessed just like the other dEvAs( Thvam 
ThripuramaTana moulou sEkarathvam dadhAnA ). 

On prathamai days, the Kalai of the Moon is somewhat elevated 
and that makes the crscent Moon look like the full Moon. Inspite
of it, You are fully golden and resemble in that respect also
the full Moon ( Prathipadham adhigamya prAptha srungA asi;
tadhapi poornachandrAkruthi)).The word Prathipadham stands
for both Pratamai and each step. With each step of
Lord RanganAthA , the crescent Moon grows and after 
sixteen steps( 16 kalais), the crescent Moon gets
transformed in to Full Moon...V.S






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