Sri:
SrimatE Gopaladesika MahadesikAya Namaha,
Translation by U.Ve. Dr. V.N. Vedanta Desikan Swamin:
450. AdhoU sahasramithi yathsahasA mayOktham
thuShtUShathA niravaDhim mahimArNavam thE
AmrEdyasyaTha kimEthadhamruShyamANA
manjusvanEna maDhujinmaNipAdhukE! thvam
Or, do You, on hearing me make an abrupt and unthinking announcement
about a decision to compose a thousan verses in praise of the vast
ocean of Your greatness, feel that my claim was ambitious, that You
could not bear it, and so ask me curiously, "Did You say a
thousand?", using Your sweet melodious Nada?
Namo Narayana,
SriMuralidhara Dasan
Special Notes by V. Sadagopan (V.S.)
(1) Sri UtthamUr Swamy's anubhavam: Swamy Desikan points out here
that the paadhukAs welcome his efforts to compose the thousand verses
and augment them many fold with its own sweet naadham. He says: " Oh
MadhusUdhana PadhukE ! You have indeed expanded my efforts to praise
Your limitless glories with a mere thousand verses. You have blended
Your sweet sounds with my verses and have multiplied them into many
thousands. It is also Your intent , it seems to make my one thousand
verses into many thousands through the elaborate annotations and
references that You have added through the insertion of Your sweet
Naadham.
(2) Srimath Andavan's anubhavam: Oh PadhukE ! One of the Sri
VaishNavAs Challenged me to compose 1,000 slOkams . adiyEn chose to
compose thousand Verses on You. The challenger elected to compose
thousand verses on Your Lord's Thiruvadi . adiyEn should not have
said that I will compose a thousand Since Your glories can not be
contained by a mere thousand . You are helping Me amplify them with
your sweet sounds.
(3) Oh paadhukE ! at the beginning of this contest (aadhou) , I was
desirous of praising Your limitless glories ( niravadhim thE mahima
arNavam thushtUshathA mayaa). I said quickly that I will compose
thousand verses( sahasA sahasramithi yath uktham ). You could not
brook this rash pledge and decided then to assist me to multiply the
eulogies ?(V.S)
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