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# Padukasahasra 7

Pādukāsahasra 7

- **Language:** Sanskrit

## Contents

- [7.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.30) — 2 parts

### [7.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.1)

pāhi naḥ pāduke yasyā vidhāsyannabhiṣecanam |  
ābhiṣecanikaṃ bhāṇḍaṃ cakre rāmaḥ pradakṣiṇam ||

> Protect us, O sandal, for whose upcoming consecration / Rāma walked clockwise around / the vessels for the coronation!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.2)

rāghavasya caraṇau padāvani prekṣituṃ tvadabhiṣekamīṣatuḥ |  
ābhiṣecanikabhāṇḍasannidhau yatpradakṣiṇagatiḥ śanairyayau ||

> Rāghava's two feet, O foot-protector, / desired to behold your consecration;  
> for this reason, his clockwise circumambulation / proceeded slowly in the presence of the consecration vessels.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.3)

mūrdhābhiṣiktairniyamena vāhyau vicintya nūnaṃ raghunāthapādau |  
ratnāsanasthāṃ maṇipāduke tvāṃ rāmānujanmā bharato'bhyaṣiñcat ||

> Thinking, surely, that the feet of the Lord of the Raghus / must by rule be carried by crowned heads,  
> Bharata, younger brother of Rāma, consecrated you / seated on the jeweled throne, O gem sandal.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.4)

bhrāturniyoge'pyanivartamānaṃ rājyābhiṣekaṃ ca parityajantam |  
rāmānujau tau nanu pāratantryādubhāvubhābhyāṃ bhavatī jigāya ||

> Indeed, by dependent subservience you two conquered both of them, / the two younger brothers of Rāma—  
> \[Lakṣmaṇa\] who would not turn back even at his brother's command, / and \[Bharata\] who abandoned the royal consecration.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.5)

niveśya raṅgeśvarapādarakṣe bhadrāsane sādaramabhyaśiñcat |  
vaśī vasiṣṭho manuvaṃśajānāṃ mahīkṣitāṃ vaṃśapurohitastvām ||

> Having placed you on the auspicious throne, / the self-controlled Vasiṣṭha, the family priest of the kings / born of the line of Manu, / reverently consecrated you, O footwear of the Lord of Raṅgam.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.6)

kṛtābhiṣekā bhavatī yathāvat raṅgeśapādāvani ratnapīṭhe |  
gaṅgānipātasnapitāṃ sumeroradhityakābhūmimadhaścakāra ||

> Duly consecrated, O foot-protector of Raṅgeśa, / upon the jeweled throne,  
> you surpassed the plateau lands of Mount Sumeru / bathed by the descent of the Gaṅgā.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.7)

vasiṣṭhamukhyairvihitabhiṣekāṃ rājyāsane rāmaniveśayogye |  
tuṣṭāva raṅgeśvarapādarakṣe prācetasastvāṃ prathamaḥ kavīnām ||

> Upon your consecration performed by Vasiṣṭha and the other sages / on the royal throne fit for Rāma's seating,  
> Prācetasa, the first among poets, / praised you, O footwear of the Lord of Raṅgam.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.8)

rakṣovadhārthaṃ maṇipādarakṣe rāmātmano raṅgapateḥ pravāse |  
rakṣo'pakārādbhavatī vitene rājanvatīṃ kosalarājadhānīm ||

> When the Lord of Raṅgam, embodied as Rāma, departed into exile / to slay the demons, O gem footwear,  
> you kept the capital of Kosala blessed with a true king / against any harm from the demons.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.9)

prāptābhiṣekā maṇipādarakṣe pratāpamugraṃ pratipadyamānā |  
śaśāsa pṛthvīṃ bhavatī yathāvatsāketasiṃhāsanasārvabhaumī ||

> Having received consecration, O gem footwear, / and assuming fierce splendour,  
> you duly ruled the earth / as the sovereign empress of the Sāketa throne.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.10)

daśānanādīnmaṇipādarakṣe jigīṣato dāśaratherviyogāt |  
jātopatāpā tvayi saṃprayuktaistīrthodakairucchvasitā dharitrī ||

> Because of the separation from the son of Daśaratha / who wished to conquer the ten-faced one and other demons, O gem footwear,  
> the earth was consumed with burning grief, / but breathed again through the holy waters applied to you.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.11)

adhyāsitaṃ manumukhaiḥkramaśonarendrai-rāropya devi bhavatīṃ tapanīyapīṭham |  
rājyābhiṣekamanaghaṃ maṇipādarakṣe rāmocitaṃ tava vaśaṃ bharato vitene ||

> Having placed you, O goddess, upon the golden throne / successively occupied by kings beginning with Manu,  
> Bharata placed under your control / the flawless royal consecration suited to Rāma, O gem footwear.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.12)

snehena devi bhavatīṃ viṣaye'bhiṣiñcan dvissaptasaṅkhyabhuvanodaradīparekhām |  
jātaṃ raghūdvahadivākaraviprayogā-dandhaṃ tamisramaharadbharataḥ prajānām ||

> Consecrating you in the kingdom with love, O goddess, / as the radiant line of a lamp within the fourteen worlds,  
> Bharata removed the blind darkness of his subjects / that had arisen from separation from that sun, the best of the Raghus.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.13)

hastāpaceyapuruṣārthaphalaprasūte rmūlaṃ padāvani mukundamahīruhastvam |  
chāyāviśeṣamadiśadyadasau prajānā-māvarjitaistvayi śubhairabhiṣekatoyaiḥ ||

> You are the root, O foot-protector, of the wish-granting Mukunda-tree / that yields the fruit of the aims of human life to be plucked by hand;  
> which \[tree\] bestowed superior shade upon the subjects, / because of the auspicious consecration waters poured out upon you.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.14)

ahnāya rāmavirahātparikhinnavṛtte-rāśvāsanāya bhavatī maṇipādarakṣe |  
tīrthābhiṣekamapadiśya vasundharāyā-ścakre tadā samucitaṃ śiśiropacāram ||

> At once, O gem footwear, in order to comfort the earth / whose conduct was sorrowful from separation from Rāma,  
> you then provided a fitting cooling treatment / under the pretext of consecration with sacred waters.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.15)

mālinyamāśritavatī maṇipādarakṣe paṅkena kekayasutākalahotthitena |  
śuddhiṃ parāmabhijagāma vasundhareyaṃ tvattaḥ kṣaṇānnipatitairabhiṣekatoyaiḥ ||

> Having incurred defilement, O gem footwear, / through the mud arisen from the quarrel with the Kekaya king's daughter,  
> this earth attained supreme purity in an instant / through the consecration waters that fell from you.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.16)

āvarjitaṃ munigaṇena jagadvibhūtyai toyaṃ padāvani tadā tvayi mantrapūtam |  
mūlāvasekasalilaṃ nigamadrumāṇāṃ śāpodakaṃ ca samabhūtkṣaṇadācārāṇām ||

> The water purified by mantras, poured then upon you / by the host of sages for the prosperity of the world, O foot-protector,  
> became the water poured at the roots of the trees of the Vedas, / and water of a curse for the night-wanderers.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.17)

viproṣite raghupatau bhavatī yathārhaṃ mānye pade sthitimatī manuvaṃśajānām |  
ātmanyatharvanipuṇaiḥ prahitaiḥ prajānā-maśrūṇyapāsyadabhiṣekajalapravāhaiḥ ||

> When the Lord of the Raghus went into exile, you, staying / in the venerated rank befitting those born of Manu's line,  
> wiped away the tears of your subjects / through the streams of consecration water poured upon yourself by experts in the Atharvaveda.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.18)

prāyo viśoṣitarasā pativiprayogā-tparyākulīkṛtasamudrapayodharā gauḥ |  
amba tvadiyamabhiṣekajalaṃ pibantī dhenurbabhūva jagatāṃ dhanadhānyadogdhrī ||

> Its essence almost dried up by separation from its master, / its ocean-udders tossed in turmoil, the earth-cow, / drinking your consecration water, O Mother, / became a milch cow that yielded wealth and grain to the worlds.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.19)

vṛtte yathāvadabhiṣekavidhau babhāse paścāttavāmba bharatena dhṛtaḥ kirīṭaḥ |  
ākasmikasvakulaviplavaśāntiharṣā-tprāptastviṣāmiva patirmaṇipāduke tvām ||

> When the consecration rite was duly concluded, O Mother, the crown placed upon you by Bharata / shone as if the Sun himself had approached you, O gem-encrusted sandal, in joy over the dispelling of the sudden catastrophe in his lineage.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.20)

manuvaṃśapurohitena mantrai-rabhimantrya tvayi pāduke prayuktam |  
abhiṣekajalaṃ kṣaṇena rājñāṃ śamayāmāsa samutthitānpratāpān ||

> Consecrated with mantras by the family priest of Manu's line, / the water of royal unction poured upon you, O sandal, instantly cooled down the rising heat of opposing kings.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.21)

pādapādupahṛtā raghūdvahā-dālavālamiva pīṭhamāśritā |  
abhyaṣeci bhavatī tapodhanaiḥ pārijātalatikeva pāduke ||

> Brought from that tree, the best of the Raghus, / and placed upon a pedestal like a young shoot in a basin of earth, / you were consecrated by sages of ascetic wealth, O sandal, like a tender Pārijāta vine.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.22)

alaghubhirabhiṣekavyāpṛtairambubhiste dinakarakuladainyaṃ pāduke kṣālayiṣyan |  
sa khalu kamalayoneḥ sūnurādhatta mantre-śvadhikaniyamayogāṃ śaktimātharvaṇeṣu ||

> Wishing to wash away the distress of the Sun's dynasty with the copious waters used for your consecration, / that son of the lotus-born \[Brahmā, Vasiṣṭha\], indeed, O sandal, / infused into the Atharvan mantras a power endowed with special disciplinary restrictions.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.23)

dinakarakulajānāṃ devi pṛthvīpatīnāṃ nirupadhimadhikāraṃ prāpnuvatyāṃ bhavatyām |  
ajaniṣata samastāḥ pāduke tāvakīna-snapanasalilayogānnimnagāstuṅgabhadrāḥ ||

> O goddess, when you attained unconditional authority / over the kings born of the Sun's lineage, / all the rivers became high and auspicious \[Tuṅgabhadrās\], O sandal, / from their contact with the water of your bath.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.24)

tava vidhivadupātte sārvabhaumābhiṣeke bharatasamayavidbhiḥ pāduke mantrimukhyaiḥ |  
tvadavadhi nijakarmasthāyinīnāṃ prajānāṃ prathamayugaviśeṣāḥ prādurāsan vicitrāḥ ||

> When your royal consecration as universal sovereign was duly undertaken / by the foremost ministers who knew Bharata's will, O sandal, / there appeared wondrous marks of the Kṛta age / for the subjects who remained steadfast in their duties up to your time.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.25)

avasitaripuśabdā nanvabhūstvaṃ tadānīṃ raghupatipadarakṣe labdharājyābhiṣekā |  
calitabhujalatānāṃ cāmaragrāhiṇīnāṃ maṇivalayaninādairmedurān mantraghoṣān ||

> O foot-guard of the Lord of the Raghus, when you had received royal consecration / and stilled the cries of your foes, you then truly enriched the chanting of mantras / with the jingling of gem bracelets on the whisk-bearing maidens / whose creeper-like arms were in motion.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.26)

samucitamabhiṣekaṃ pāduke prapnuvatyāṃ tvayi vinipatitānāṃ devi tīrthodakānām |  
dhvaniranugatamantraḥ sīdatāṃ kosalānāṃ śamayitumalamāsīt saṅkulānārtanādān ||

> O sandal, when you attained your proper consecration, / the roar of the sacred waters falling upon you, accompanied by mantras, O goddess, / was fully capable of dispelling the confused cries of distress / among the suffering people of Kosala.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.27)

diviṣadanuvidheyaṃ devi rājyābhiṣekaṃ bharata iva yadi tvaṃ pāduke nānvamaṃsthāḥ |  
kathamiva raghuvīraḥ kalpayedalpayatna-stricaturaśarapātaistādṛśaṃ devakāryam ||

> O goddess sandal, if like Bharata you had not accepted / the royal consecration that satisfied the denizens of heaven, / how could the hero of the Raghus, with minimal effort, / have accomplished such a divine task with merely three or four arrows?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.28)

katicana padapadmasparśasaukhyaṃ tyajantī vratamatulamadhāstvaṃ vatsarān sāvadhānā |  
raghupatipadarakṣe rākṣasaistrāsitānāṃ raṇaraṇakavimuktaṃ yena rājyaṃ surāṇām ||

> O foot-guard of the Lord of the Raghus, renouncing for some years / the joy of touching his lotus feet, you vigilantly maintained an peerless vow, / by which the gods, terrified by the rākṣasas, / had their kingdom freed from anxiety.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.29)

atharvopajñaṃ te vidhivadabhiṣekaṃ vidadhatāṃ vasiṣṭhādīnāmapyupacitacamatkārabharayā |  
tvadāsthānyā raṅgakṣitiramaṇapādāvani tadā laghīyasyo jātā raghupariṣadāhopuruṣikāḥ ||

> For Vasiṣṭha and the other sages who duly performed your consecration originated in the Atharvaveda, / because of the great wonder generated by your royal assembly, O foot-protector of the lover of the earth at Raṅgam, / the self-conceit of the Raghu council was rendered exceedingly small.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.30)

abhiṣecayatu sa rāmaḥ padena vā spṛśatu pāduke bhavatīm |  
aviśeṣitamahimā tvaṃ kva vā viśeṣaḥ kṣamāsametānām ||

> Let that Rāma consecrate you, or let him touch you with his foot, O sandal: / your majesty is beyond all distinction; or where can there be any difference for those full of patience and forbearance \[like the earth\]?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.30.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.30.p1)

iti kavitārtkikasihasya sarvatantrasvatantrasya śrīmadveṅkaṭanāthasya śrīmadvedāntācāryasya kutiṣu śrīraṅganāthapādukāsahasre abhiṣekapaddhatiḥ saptamī ||

> Thus ends the seventh section, the 'Section on Consecration', in the thousand verses on the sandals of Śrī Raṅganātha, composed by the Lion of poets and logicians, the master of all systems, the venerable Veṅkaṭanātha, the venerable Vedānta teacher.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.30.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra.7.30.p2)

8. niryātanāpaddhatiḥ (30)

> 8. Section on Restitution (30)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.srivaisnava.stotra.padukasahasra~en-mt.7.1) — English, machine translation

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