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padmApate: stuti padena vipachyamAnam pashyantviha prapadana pravaNA mahAnta: | madvAkya samvalitamapyajahat svabhAvam mAnyam yatIshvara mahAnasa sampradAyam ||
Meaning:
mahAnta: - May the great souls prapadana pravaNA: - who follow prapatti pashyantu - see/enjoy iha - in this work, sampradAyam - the tradition mahAnasa - that was established through the kitchen yatIshvara - of Ramanuja, stuti padena vipachya mAnam - which is filled with praise padmA pate: - to Sriman Narayana, ajahat svabhAvam - which does not reduce in quality samvalitam api - even though it is associated madvAkya - with my speech, mAnyam - and which is special.
Vyakhyana Saram:
In Bhagavat Ramanuja's kitchen worked the great acharya Kidambi
Achchan. Through him comes a sampradhaya lineage up to Kidambi
Appullar. Kidambi Appullar was the maternal uncle of Desikan
and was also his acharya. This sampradhayam is praised by Swami
Desikan as "ethivaranAr madaippaLLi vandha maNam" and "iti
yatirAja mahAnasa parimaLa parivAha". In this shloka, he
praises the same and states that the meanings of this great
sampradhayam are being revealed through this work ("yatIshvara
mahAnasa sampradAyam iha pashyantu"). Such a sampradhayam has
several great meanings. To show that this work reveals the
meanings of Sharanagati, he states "prapadana pravaNA: mahAnta:
pashyantu", asking the great souls that follow the path of
Sharanagati to enjoy this work .
In Srivaishnava fashion, he practices naichyAnusandhAnam by saying that his speech is lowly. Yet, he says, because of the greatness of the subject, the work does not lose its quality. Similar to Thondaradippodi Azhvar saying "iLaiya pun kavidhaiyElum empirARku iniyavARE".
The words of our Azhvars and Acharyas just did not come out of them - it was the Lord who was saying them first ("munnuru") and they simply repeated it ("pinnuru"). Azhvar too says "thannaith thAnE thudhiththu" and "yAnAyth thannaith thAn pAdi" - Thiruvaymozhi 10-7.
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