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 The 13th Naamam of SrI VenkatEsa AshtOttharam:
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MadhusoodhanAya Nama:= Salutations to the Lord ,who destroyed the asuran Madhu and restored the VedAs to His son , Brahma DEvan !

 This is the 74th naamam in SrI VishNu Sahasra nAmam (VSN).

 Meaning:
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 Madhusoodhana means the slayer of the asuran Madhu . Madhusoodhanan conferred immeasurable prosperity to the DevAs by slaying Madhu .The entire SrI HayagrIva SthOthram of Swamy Desikan is about His vaibhavam as Madhusoodhanan and the Lord of Sakala vidhyAs.

 The other meaning of "Madhusoodhanan" relates to His matchless Svaroopam, Roopam and GuNam that attracts and draws close to Him all the Muktha Jeevans and Nithya Sooris effortlessly .

 Madhu is the name of the sense organs that distract the chEthanams from the enjoyment of the VailakshaNyams (glories)of His DhivyAthma Svaroopam and Dhivya ManagaLa Vigraham

 Out of His great affection for us, Lord Venkatesan as Madhusoodhanan attracts us to Him and blesses us with the Parama PurushArTam of Mukthi and residence at His Supreme Abode.

 Additional Comments
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 The Madhusoodana Naama is invoked , when a SrI VaishNava adorns the Urdhva PuNDram on his right , upper arm with the manthram: "Chathur-mulsamaBjAbham SamsrayEMadhusoodhanam"

 He is the Lord of the South Eastern Direction ; His hue is that of  a red lotus; The weapons seen in His four hands are four pestles  ( Ulakkai ).The order of the 12 NaamAs are: Kesavan, NaarAyaNan

 Maadhavan , Govindhan , VishNu , MADHUSOODHANAN , Thrivikraman Vaamanan, SrIdharan , HrishikEsan , PadhmanAbhan and DaamOdharan.

 Swamy Desikan salutes Him in His SrIsookthi of Panniru  ThirunAmam this way: " Mudhumaa VinaikaL aRukkum muyalankaL IriraNDAn
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 He identifies the Lord in this paasuramas also as "Ponn Maathu uRai Pankaya VaNNan " or the Lord of lotus hue (Madhusoodhanan) , who has MahA Lakshmi residing on His Chest always. Swamy Desikan  also instructs us that this SrInivAsan is also Venkatesan , since He destroys all of our ancient paapams by burning them away( mudhu maa = ancient and huge , vinaikaL = paapams , aRukkum = cutting asunder ). In this passage of the Paasuram , Swamy Desikan instructs us that Madhusoodhanan's weapons for destruction/pulverization of our paapams are four Pestles seen on each of His four hands. He has His seat on the upper right hand shoulder of the SrI VaishNavan through the adornment of Urdhva PuNDram there every day .




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