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pAhi rAmadUta

vasantavarALi     rUpaka     tyAgarAja     saMskRta     kRti    
pAhi rAma dUta jagat\tprANa kumAra maM
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O Messenger of Sri Rama! O Son of Vayu – life breath of the World! Deign to protect me.
vAhinIza taraNa daza¹ vadana sUnu tanu haraNa (pAhi)
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O Messenger of Sri Rama! O Son of Vayu - who leaped across the ocean – Lord of rivers! the slayer of Aksha Kumara – son of Ravana – the ten faced! deign to protect me.
ghOrAsura vArAn-nidhi kumbha² tanaya kRta kArya
pArijAta³ taru nivAsa pavana tulya vEga (pAhi)
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O Messenger of Sri Rama! O Son of Vayu - who dried up the ocean – store-house of waters – called the terrible demons in the same way as sage Agastya – born of pitcher who sipped the ocean; resident at the root of the tree Parijata! who moves about with the speed equivalent to wind; deign to protect me.
O Messenger of Sri Rama! O Son of Vau - subduer of the malefic planet(s) by his feet; the purifier of those who have fallen from their path; the most excellent among those masters of Veda and Sastra; the blemish-less minded; deign to protect me ever.
pAda⁴ vijita duSTa graha patita lOka pAvana
vEda⁵ zAstra nipuNa varya vimala citta satataM mAM (pAhi)
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O Messenger of Sri Rama! O Son of Vayu - the Lotus Faced resembling (in colour) that of rising Sun; who shines as if a crore Suns have appeared together; who holds in his hands the holy feet of Sri Rama; the wind – carrier of fragrance - which drives away the cloud of impurities of this Kali Yuga; deign to protect me.
taruNAruNa vadanAbja tapana kOTi saGkAza
kara dhRta raghuvara su-caraNa kali malAbhra gandha⁶ vAha (pAhi)
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O Messenger of Sri Rama! O Son of Vayu – brimming with the nectar of compassion towards devotees; whose body is like the Mount mEru – the golden mountain; besought by the great devotees of Lord; bestower of boons to devotees; praised by this Thyagaraja; deign to protect me.
  • General – Charanas are not given in uniform order in the books.
  • 6 gandha vAha – gandha vaha
  • 1 daza vadana sUnu – Aksha Kumara – Hanuman slayed him in a battle during his sojourn at Lanka as the messenger of Sri Rama.
  • 2 kumbha tanaya – Sage Agastya is said to be the common son of Varuna and Mitra through Urvasi; he was born from a pitcher. Sage Agastya is said to have dried up the ocean in a sip. Sri Thyagaraja states that Hanuman similarly dried up the ocean like army of demons.
    • The episode of sage Agastya drinking up the ocean is found in Mahabharata, Book 3 – Vana Parva – Sections 104 and 105. Refer - [[http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m03/index.htm Mahabharata]]
  • 3 pArijAta taru – one of the five trees of Paradise produced at the time of churning of milk ocean. The botanical name of the tree - Erythrina Indica.
  • 4 pAda vijita duSTa graha – Saturn and Mars are considered as malefic planets - Source - [[http://www.skyscript.co.uk/centiloquium1.html Planets]].
    • As per Brihat Parasara Hora Sastra of Sage Parasara, these are called Tamasic planents [[http://www.astrojyoti.com/bphspage1.htm Tamasic Planets]].
    • “He (Anjaneya) is particularly known for relieving difficulties that arise from Lord Saturn or Mars” [[http://www.msu.edu/~mahereri/rel340/hanuman.html Hanuman 1]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanuman Hanuman 2]]
  • 5 vEda zAstra nipuNavarya – The following words spoken by Sri Rama in praise of Hanuman in Kishkinda Kanda of Valmiki Ramayana – Chapter 3, verses 28 and 29 – are relevant –
    • “To speak in the way he has done is not possible for one who has not studied Rgveda with an eye to its meaning, not memorized Yajurveda and has no knowledge of Samaveda either. Surely the entire range of (Samskrta) grammar has been studied by him in many ways, as is clear from the fact that nothing has been wrongly worded by him.”
Updated on 2024-11-26
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