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		The Pãduka

Sri Sri Swamiji -

• Social restrain is not needed only by one who has self-restraint. However, self-restraint is not possible by all. This is the reason that social restrain becomes a necessity.

Sriman Nigamãntha Desikan, a great Vaishnava Saint lived from mid-thirteenth to mid-fourteenth century- 1268-1369. Of the innumerable 'Granthas' (texts) written by Him the highly revered and considered as the most extraordinary piece is His "Pãduka Sahasram" - a thousand verses on the 'Pãduka' of Lord Ranganãtha. The Saint has in all composed 1008 verses, the last eight apologizing in all humility for daring to compose these 1000 verses on the Pãduka!

Sri Desikan's contemporary Sri Appayya Dikshitar had written a commentary on the "Pãduka Sahasram" but unfortunately it has been lost.

adhigata bahusãkhãn manjuvãchah sukãdeen
sarasijanilayãyãh preetaye sangraheetum |
prakatitagunnajãlam Paduke! rangabandhoh
upanishadataveeshu kreeditam tvatsanãbham ||          (305)

Oh! Paduke!
  To please Mahãlakshmi
  catches the parrots - Suka and the Sages
  revealing in the Vedas
  by casting the nets of His 'gunãs' (dispositions)
  in the forest of the Upanishads
  and plays with You!

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