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>Sri:
>SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,
>Translation of Paaduka Sahasram by U.Ve. Sri V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin
>
>49. PadhasarasijayOstvam PAdhukE! RangaBhartu:
> Manasi munijanAnAm moUlideshE shrutInAm
> vachasi cha sukavInAm varthasE nityamEkA
> Tadhidhamavagatham thE shAshvatam vaIshvarUpyam
>
>Oh Paaduka! Being one, You are many too and you constitute the entire
>universe. You are under the lotus feet of Ranganatha; You are in the mind
>of Rishis; You are in the head of the Vedas (i.e. Upanishads); You are also
>in the speech of good poets. Thus you are ever everywhere! Your taking
>different forms is thus understood.
>
>Namo Narayana,
>Adiyen,SriMuralidhara Dasan

NOTES BY V.SADAGOPAN (V.S):
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(1)UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam :Oh Paadhukhais of 
Lord RanganAthA ! Thou art spread all over Your
Lord's Universe and are worshipped everywhere .
You may be one entity , but , You are found 
under the holy feet of Your Lord , in the minds 
of sages , on top of the VedAs and on the tongues of
the celebrated poets .Like Your Lord , Thou art 
present all over the Universe as VisvarUpi.

(2)Sri Andavan's anubhavam : Oh Lord's PaadhukhE ! Even if you 
may be considered as an unitary presence under the Lord's
CharaNAravindham , You are not limited to that presence .
You are seen not only under the Lord's paadha Kamalam ,
but also in the minds of Sages, on top of Upanishads 
and the tongues of poets .Your Lord adorns You on His 
feet ; Upanishads salute You; the Sages meditate on You;
poets like adiyEn eulogize You .

(3) Swami Desikan says to the holy PadhukhAs here :
Rangabharthu's PaadhukhE ! " thvam yEkA sathi , 
VaisvarUpyam (darsayathi)". In Tamil , it is easier
to translate this powerful statement :" nee oruvaLAi
irunthukoNDE , pala sarIrangaLai udaitthAi irukkirAi" .
The moving tribute of Swami Desikan to the VisvarUpam 
of the Paaadhukhais are : " Thvam Rangabharthu: Padha- 
SarasijayO: nithyam varthasE;Muni janAnAm manasi nithyam 
varthasE ; SruthInAm moulidEsE nithyam varthasE; SukavInAm 
vachasi cha nithyam varthasE ;Tath thE VaisvarUpyam 
Saasvatham idham avagatham ". The reference here is to 
Sukavis like the AzhwArs and Sage VaalmIki ....V.S

(4) In the previous slOkam , Swami Desikan addressed 
the Lord's Paadhukais as "dhaithyajith Paadha RakshE "
( the protectors of the holy feet of the Lord , who
destroyed the asurAs ).The connections between 
His sacred feet , NammAzhwAr-the Lord's Paadharakshai,
the celebrated Vedhams and upanishads extolling the glories
of the Paadham and the attached Paadha Rakshai and
the inkavi sollum sages are referred to here by our
AchArya Saarvabhouman at number of places . Selected 
connecting references from his Sri Sookthis are :

"manatthilirunthu marutthamudhamAhiya MaadhavanAr
ninaitthan maRatthal arithAya nannizhal neeLkazahalE"
--Amrutha ranjani : Last half of Paasurams 30 &38.

This Desika Prabhandham celebrates the unforgrettable 
glory (vaibhavam) of the Lord's long(pervasive) feet 
as our upAyam and Phalan , when we seek them as Tanjam .

Those auspicious feet are protected by NammAzhwAr 
as His Paadha Rakshai. The VedAs and their Siras ,
upanishads are found there at the Lord's CharaNa kamalam 
protected by the SatakOpam . There , the SatakOpa Sri is
dominant .In the first paasuram of his AdhikAra 
sangraham , Swami Desikan reveals to us that 
the recitation of NammAzhwAr's and the Tamizh Maalais of
other Rishis helps us to understand the meanings of
difficult Vedha BhAgams without any doubts :
" ------------------------ivarkaNN mahizhnthu paadum 
seyya Tamizh maalaikaNAm teLiya Odhit-
teLiyAtha MaRai nilangaL teLihinrOmE "

In this 49th paasuram of AdhikAra sangraham , Swami
Desikan hints at the power of Paadhukhais in the 4th line 
of the 8 line paasuram , right in the middle:
" adi iNaikk keezh adaikkalamenRu yemmai vaitthu "
What is there below the pair of the Lord's sacred Thiruvadi ?
There is the Paadhukhai , Sri SatakOpa Soori , the AchAryan,
prapanna janasanthAna kUtasthar .Swami Desikan states that 
the Lord has placed us as refuge under those SatAris 
( adaikkalam yenRu yemmai vaitthu ).

The glories of those auspicious feet of the Lord RanganAthA 
and by extension , the glories of the Paadhukhais protecting
His feet at all times and places are praised by Swami Desikan
in a 16 line prabhandham of AdhikAra sangraham starting with ,
" uRu sakatam udaya orukaal uRRu uNarnthana " and ending with
" vidal ariya Periya PerumANmen PadhangaLE "....V.S 

Swami Desikan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,
Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan 









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