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Sri Ranganatha ParabrahmaNE Nama:

147: Poulasthya veera vadhana sthaBakAvasanAth 
PushpANi dhaNDakavanEshu apachEthum icchO:
rakshAdhuram dhruthavathI MaNipaadhukE! thvam
Raamasya MaithilasuthA sahithE prachArE

Translation by U.Ve. V.N.Vedantha Desikan Swamy
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Oh PaadhukA! Had you not sat on the throne , how could
RamA achieve what all He did ? He could now sportively 
wander along with SitA , plucking flowers for Her, 
He could " pluck " the flowers -so to say- so effortlessly
,- like kill the demons like Khara , DhUshaNA et al ,
in the DaNDakA forest , and ending with the "flowers"
,namely , the heads of RaavaNA , for which RaamA planned.

(1) Sri UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam:
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Oh PadhukE ! If You did not return to AyOdhyA ,
RaamA would have had the appeal from His citizens 
and Gurus to co-govern the kingdom with BharathA 
from ChithrakUtam . Had it happened , RaamA's 
affectionate deed to help SitA pluck flowers of 
the forest would have been interfered with .He would 
also have been interrupted in plucking the bunch of 
flowers known as RaavaNA , KarA , DhUshaNA and Trisaras 
and thereby fulfil the mission of His incarnation .
Oh PaadhukE ! You saved the situation on behalf of
SitA and DevAs. 

(2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam:
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Oh PaadhukE ! RaamA went to DaNDakAraNyam with SitA
to practise the art of plucking the bunch of flowers
representing the ten heads of RaavaNA. At that time , 
You accepted the responsibility of governing the kingdom.
The inner meaning is that the jeevans acquire sadh-guNmas 
as a result of the UpadEsams of SadhAchAryAs. Afterwards ,
PerumAl banishes the samsAric sorrows .

(3) PaadhukA's act in protecting the land during 
RaamA's sanchAram in the DhaNdakA forest 
to fulfill His avathAra KaaraNam is saluted 
here by Swamy Desikan as " Raamasya prachArE thvam 
RAKSHADHURAM DHRUTHAVATHEE " .Swamy Desikan's
choice of the word "APACCHETHUM " in the context
of plucking flowers is fascinating when it comes
to connect with the plucking effortlessly as it were
the bunch of heads of RaavaNA . " Apa " sabdham is
a prefix to verbs and means away , away from . 
The suffix , "cchEthum " linked to the prefix , apa ,
indicates " the plucking away " of " the ten Veera Vadhana
pushpams" of RaavaNA . They were full of blossom over
the thought that they were going to defeat the Lord in
the battle field .These heads of RaavaNA harboring 
those thoughts were plucked away elegantly by the veteran, 
who had practised earlier the plucking of the heads of 
other RaakshasAs who ruled over the DaNDakA forest....V.S






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