Sri Nrusimha PanchAmrutam
Annotated Commentary in English By Oppiliappan KOil Sri VaradAchari SathakOpan sadagopan.org
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sadagopan.org sadagopan.org 2 Anutthamam who enjoyedlisteningtothemostde made upof whichis PanchAmrutham, tasting of sthothram isdelectableto listen.Henceithas adiyEn willcoverabeautiful eulogyattribut I BhagavAn Narasimhan. BhagavAn Narasimhan. PanchAmrutham”. Varadanisknownas“ infrontofPrahlAdha SriRamA by composed Sesha Dharmam(chapter47)describesSriRamA homevictoriouswith evil RavaNAandreturned His blessingsandwith received and Kshethram Kaaryam. fulfill hisavathAra to LankhA stopped at withSowmithri Sri RamachandrA to theears. ofits“taste” ofview point fromthe PanchAmrutham invincible or Anutthamam” itas“PanchAmrutham Hencetheydescribed the usualingredients. up of inta (AnutthamAm) unsurpassed was Sri RamA NTRODUCTION SRI NRUSIMHA PANCHAMRUTHA STHOTHRAM ”. The DevAs felt that the experience of ”. TheDevAsfeltthattheexperience : There are five slokas that Sri RamA that slokas Therearefive . ïIn&is
been described as equivalentinrasanaitothe been described ed traditionally to Sri RamachandrA. This This toSriRamachandrA. traditionally ed His consort. Hari vamsam inthesectionon Hisconsort.Harivamsam many fruits, honey, and sugar. The DevAs, many fruits,honey,andsugar.TheDevAs, ste, better than any PanchAmrutham made made anyPanchAmrutham ste, betterthan Ahobilam on his southward trektowards hissouthward on Ahobilam the power of those blessings destroyed the blessingsdestroyedthe those of the power ’s sojourn at Ahobilam. The sthothram ’s sojournatAhobilam.Thesthothram listening to this sthuthi composed by sthuthi composedby listening tothis !
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deliberate journey to Ahobilam (gathvA) a (gathvA) deliberate journeytoAhobilam that states slokam ofthis line The first Hisvaachikasalutation(Asthousheeth). offered andthen namaskaraNam) (Kaayika LordofAhobilam firstbeforethe prostrated SriRamA that indicates The slokam of AhobilaMuttJeeyarstoday. Murthy Aaradhana whoisthe Narasimhan, verywellbeMaalOlanorLakshmi RamA could notleaveHimevenforasecond. who does as isdescribed slokam,SriNrusimhan In this NamaskruthvA SrINrusimhamas AhObilam Naarasimhamgath nd offered his homage to Lord Narasimhan. Narasimhan. toLord hishomage nd offered 5 the valorous Sri RamA (PrathApavAn) made a a made Sri RamA(PrathApavAn) the valorous KamalApathi or the consort of MahA Lakshmi, ofMahALakshmi, theconsort or KamalApathi Hence, the ArchA murthy worshipped by Sri by Sri worshipped Hence, theArchAmurthy thousheeth KamalApathim|| vA Rama: PrathApavAn | vA Rama:PrathApavAn|
sadagopan.org sadagopan.org Sahasranaamam: Narasimhan asPadmanAbhan,we when RamAsalutes instance, here.For andagain (VSN)again Naamam Sahasra Vishnu “Naarasimha Vapu:SrimAnKESAVA:PURUSH RaamA Sahasra nAmam. celebrated inVishNu NaarAyaNAchyutha, as oneNaamam). These N slOkam, In this meaning-laden speech(ArthaPushti). Vaak”andasacompet as theonewith“Madhura VaachaspathiryathA “ Slokamsection: Khaandha Sundara tothe“ atestament This verseis reminded of the DwAdasa Naama Panjara St reminded oftheDwAdasaNaamaPanjara When RamAaddressesBhagavAnNarasimh “ApramEyO Hrishikesa: PADMANAABHO amaraPrabhu;” PADMANAABHO “ApramEyO Hrishikesa: Hrudh padmE PadmanAbhOmE Hrudh padmE SarvAyudha: Sarvasakthi: Sarvajn~a:sarvathOmukha:|| NaarAyaNAchyutha Nrusim Sri RamA uses 12 NamaskArams (if one counts the Naamam, Naamam, onecountsthe (if Sri RamAuses12NamaskArams ” (SundaraKhAndham34.29).HanumAn Sri PadmanAbha Purushotthama PushkarAkshaSri PadmanAbhaPurushotthama Visvesa Visva Madhusoodhana Visvaroopa | Visvaroopa Madhusoodhana Visvesa Visva Govindha Kesava JanArdhana Vaasudeva Govindha KesavaJanArdhanaVaasudeva SavaRyux> svRzi´> svR}> svRtaemuo> . ùTpÒe pÒnaÉaemeshöakRsmàÉ>, naray[aCyut n&is
sadagopan.org sadagopan.org 9. 6. 8. 7. thought provoking usage by Sri Rama. This isthe12 by SriRama. usage provoking thought the unusualcombinationsoftwoNaam One of Sri MaalOlaninhisheartcagethesp seat to 12 names used Thirumahan Chakravathi which in way splendid the earlierto I referred 10. NaarAyaNan. ThatiswhySageNaaradha stat NaarAyaNan. Slokam.A Dhvayam andendswithCharama Achaarya (SageVasishtA)havein DhvayamandCharamaSlokam AshtAkshari, centraldoctrines Further,the AshtAkshari. as is considered itisthemostsignific Moola Manthram.Indeed, sign profound reveal tousthegreatnessand (A).Thevarious PraNavam BrahmaVidhyA) slokAsofNaaradheeyaKalpam(AshtAkshara iscelebra “NaarAyaNa” ofthename The greatness 5. 11. 11. “Tvaam Nrusimham sathatham NathOsmi”. NathOsmi”. sathatham “Tvaam Nrusimham the line,“ endwith The remainingfourslokams NaarayaNanamOsthutEh). Govindha (AchyuthAnandha NaarAyaNAchyutha 12. Sri PadmanAbha Visva Visvaroopa reference). as aBhramaram(bee)aroundBh sancharam Madhusoodhana PurushOtthama Visvesa PushkarAksha (full inallaspects,1 (Close to VSN 118 (ClosetoVSN (close to VSN 89; Om VisvarEthasE Nama:) Nama:) 89;OmVisvarEthasE toVSN (close Dharaka -Poshaka-Bhogya (40 (24 (an epithet for VishNu and is also the name for honey bee;RamA’s forhoney also thename is VishNu and for (anepithet (48 BhakthAnAm Abhaya^nkara: Dushta Nigraha Abhaya^nkara:Dushta BhakthAnAm th BhagavAn Sriya:Pathi:SrimanNaarAyaNa: VSN; the lotus eyed one) VSN;thelotuseyed th Vathsala: NaarAyaNAchyuthaNrusimha, th Sishta paripAlana Kshama: saraNAgatha Sishta paripAlanaKshama: VSN) VSN; One who has a lotus in Hisnavel) has alotusin VSN;Onewho st th naamamofVSN) :OmVisvaYonayEanama:) Thubhyam NamONama: structed us that one is born in Thirumanthiram, grows in in grows inThirumanthiram, born oneis usthat structed irit ofDvAdasaNaamaPanjaraSthuthi. 8 Sabdhamastheresidentofgoldencage es that NaarAyaNA isAshtAksharaSvarupi: es thatNaarAyaNA of Sri VaishNavAs are the three rahasyams: of SriVaishNavAsarethethreerahasyams: As, into one name “NaarAyaNAchyutha” is a isa “NaarAyaNAchyutha” intoonename As, Tham Naarasimham SaraNam gathOsmi” or or gathOsmi” SaraNam Tham Naarasimham ificance of NaarayaNa sabdham. It is part of Itispart ificance sabdham. of NaarayaNa ant partofMoolaManthram.Thatiswhyit ant . OurAcharyasandSriRamachandrA’s ll ofthemhaveattheir coreSriman th ted as the elaboration of the first part of ted astheelaborationoffirst and the last naamA of the first slokam. the first of andthelastnaamA agavan NarasimhAcanalsobethe
this discovery. this discovery. and study(v Research on essence ofallSaasthrAs. areth toyou.You superior or to who isequal Oh DevanAyakA!Achyutha!SaraNAgatha poem magnificent of this Thiruvaheendhrapuram verses Swami Desikancomposedahundred later, Many millenniums Sathyan. sathyan).Hene kaimkaryam toHim(Kinkara Sathyan (truetothose,whobowbeforeHim) and seekrefu anyone, whotrulysurrenderstoHim of SrimanNaarAyaNA’ancienttatthv Narasimhan ofAhobilamas“ The wordAchyuthawasattachedbyHimtothenaamA,“ through the invocationof NaarAyaNa sabdha Taantricway atAhobilam the Vaidhika in Narasimhan SriLakshmi Sri RamAsaluted NaarAyaNAya”. “NamO the manthram, refuge in Whether weareseated, resting orstanding,wh (M NaarAyaNa sabdhamthis way: Elsewhere, Sage NaradhArevealsthat heha Thisis aksharAs. made upofeight alroams Isvaryam et. Balam, such asJn~anam, It isveryclearandunquestionable.SrimanN (M (M name, compound ofthis theusage reasonsbehind assertively the EANING EANING EANING na kalu tava sadhrusAbhyadhikA: N na kalutavasadhrusAbhyadhikA: yehtAvath Jna~nasaaramithi jn~aat ): ): ):
vyaktham hi BhagavAnDeva:SakshAnnArAyaNa:Svayam| AaseenA vaasayanaathisht NamO NaarAyaNAyEthi mantraikasaraNAvayam|| AshtAkshara svarupENamukhEshuparivarthatEh|| AshtAkshara and celebratedtheNaarAyaNAchyuthaTattvam. Oneoftheversesand (Achyutha Sathakam) NaarAyaNAchyuthan the glory of NaarAyaNa parAyaNA: thegloryof am statedinthecharamaslokam. 9 aarAyaNan, the treasure house of the six guNAs of thesixguNAs thetreasurehouse aarAyaNan, hum tridasanaathEtaravichinthA|| e sole protector of SaraNAgathAs. This is the is the SaraNAgathAs. This e soleprotectorof aatha tvamevaSarvaloka SaraNya:| s taken refuge in the Manthram celebrating intheManthramcelebrating s taken refuge ver lets them down. He is the SaraNAgatha ver letsthemdown.HeistheSaraNAgatha in the faces of the reciter of moola manthram of the facesofreciter in of Swami Desikan sums m in the very first slokam ofhiseulogy. m intheveryfirstslokam ether weare ether here orthere,wehavetaken anthO yathrakuthravaa| . He is the protector of those, who do whodo those, of protector Heisthe . ichinhtA) of all the SaasthrAs is to arrive at istoarrive ofalltheSaasthrAs ichinhtA) ge at His lotus feet. He is therefore, Natha ge atHislotusfeet.Heistherefore,Natha SathyA! Thereisnooneinallthe worlds, ”. The Achyutha naamam is a reminder is areminder The Achyuthanaamam NaarAyaNA “NaarAyaNAchyuathan”: Hewillnotabandon onthe Achyuthan of up brilliantly and upbrilliantly ” tosaluteSri
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tham NaarasimhamsaraNamgathOsmi || Yath paadhamoolamsathathamnamanthi Gandharva VidhyAdhara kinnarAsccha | kinnarAsccha Gandharva VidhyAdhara devaassamasthA: kalu yogi mukhyA : mukhyA devaassamasthA: kaluyogi “Prahlaada Varadan– Swati Purappaadu” “Prahlaada Varadan–Swati Purappaadu” devaSsmSta> olu yaeigmuOya> t< naris speech and means, “indeed,verily,certainly”. speech and (Paadha moolam)andareofferingth atthelotusfeet assembled listed--are allwhoarenoteven KinnarAsand GandharvAs, word is “SamasthA:”“Kalu “isusedinpoetrytolaystressonthe Sri by this slokam in the word“Kalu” of The use Rama uses“Kalu” hereby alltheDEvA salutedindeed constantly to assert refuge(performed I havetaken that all --DevAs,(M Parama Yogis, EANING ): SaraNAgathi) to that Narasimhan, whoselotusfeetare to that SaraNAgathi) eir salutations. “Kalu” is used as a particle in syllogistic “Kalu”isusedasaparticleinsyllogistic eir salutations. s, Parama Yogis, GandharvAs and KinnarAs. KinnarAs. and s, ParamaYogis,GandharvAs 11 word bywhichitispreceded.Herethepreceding Sri RamabhadhrA is very meaningful. The word The meaningful. isvery RamabhadhrA Sri sadagopan.org sadagopan.org wealth, asthemeansformysaraNAgathi. saasthrAs. IhavechosenthatNarasimhan, of the heart in and VedAs in the VidyAelaborated ofBrahma fruits fail the obtains without I havetakenrefuge(performedSaraNAgathi) (M EANING ): vidhyApalEh keerthimatheemchaLakshmeem| vidhyApalEh “Prahlaadavaradan ready for Thirumanjanam” “Prahlaadavaradan ready forThirumanjanam” vEdhAn samasthAn KALUsaasthragarbhAn vEdhAn samasthAn tham NaarasimhamsaraNamgathOsmi || Yasya PrasAdhAthsathathamlabhanthE vedan! smStan! olu zaSÇgÉaRn! iv*able kIitRmtI— clúmIm! , t< naris TvamEvatham tvaam Sathatham NathOsmi || ChandhrArka vaayvAgni MaruthgaNAsccha vaayvAgniMaruthgaNAsccha ChandhrArka BrahmA SivasthvamPurushOtthamasccha NaarAyaNOsow maruthAmPathisccha| “Prahlaadavaradan Thirumanjanam” Tvmev t sadagopan.org sadagopan.org (Yajur Vedam: XXXII .1). (Yajur Vedam:XXXII.1). orPrajaapathi”. Apaah one knownasSukrA, Brahman, Heagainisthesame Chandramaa. is AdityA sameHe the “He aloneisAgni, with different names: Yajur vedamsalutesthesupremeLordasone Matarisvan. Agn asIndrA,MitrA,VaruNA, names, such men) - of (theLord nrupathi effulgent) and Dravinodha (giverofwealth),deva, savithru oramsA.---Youarethe MitrA ,AAryamaan VaruNA, as Agni,King One known You arethe (M (RV.II.1.4,1.6and1.7): Rg VedicPassages in Himalone. one out andbecome The entireDevAsmerge (M heard in these illustrative Veda Manthrams: Veda Manthrams: illustrative heard inthese many passage of of theessence is slOkam This (Moolam). Murthy Aadhi Brahmamand asUcchishta SriNarasimhA Grand principles, Sri Agni andeverydivineprinciple. Moon, Sun, recognizes SriNarasimhaBhagavAnasindwelle is gone. the finalrealityoroneth reveals theLordas Princi istheessenceofVedic This slokam EANING EANING He takes the form of all the Gods of ma sarvE asmin dEvA eka vruthO bhavanthi (AtharvaVedamXII.4.21) sarvE asmindEvAekavruthObhavanthi ): ): 14 You are theone,whomseerscallby various You , ratnadhaa (the store of gems), bhaga (the , ratnadhaa(thestoreofgems),bhaga i, DivyA, SuparNA, GaruthmAn,YamAand i, DivyA,SuparNA, s of the VedAs. The echoes of this slOkam are are of thisslOkam The echoes VedAs. s ofthe ple, “Ucchishta” or “Ut-sista Brahmam” that or“Ut-sistaBrahmam” ple, “Ucchishta” at exists as the undecaying self, when all else self, whenallelse undecaying at existsasthe , thesameoneisknownasVaayu,and RamaA saysthatHesalutesgrandestof r of Brahma, SivA, Maruth DevAs, Vaayu, MaruthDevAs,Vaayu, SivA, r ofBrahma, everlasting principle,evenifHeissaluted ny attributes and functions. Sri RamA Sri andfunctions. ny attributes Lakshmi Narasimhan of Ahobilam always. of Lakshmi Narasimhan fo and forlokaKshemam functions these perform in allstates creator, protectoranddestroyer glory. Heisthe and matchless in attributes Lord and supreme the Heisindeed beings. thatNrusimhan,whocreates, I saluteforever (M EANING ): tham tvAmnrusimham svapnEapi nityamjagathAmtrayANAm srashtA chahanthAvibhurapramEya:| traathA tvamevakasthrividhO vibhinna: t< Tva sadagopan.org sadagopan.org covering the above happenings atAhobilam: above happenings the covering sages the assembled of and theacclamation thro Devaas bythe of thatworship celebration ofMalolan,the AarAdhanam dealwithSriRamA’s Sthothram this The restoftheverses RaaghavENa kruthamSthothram ithi sthuthvA Raghu Sreshta : RaghuSreshta ithi sthuthvA Saadhu saadhvidhi tham prOc tham Saadhu saadhvidhi patanthiyE dhvijavarA:teshAmsvargasthusaasvatha:|| Pushpa Vrushti:papaathAsu Sri Nrusimha PanchAmrutha Sthothram SampoorNam SampoorNam Sthothram PanchAmrutha Nrusimha Sri saxu saiXvitt<àaecu>deva\i;g[ESsh. pQiNt yeiÖjvra>te;a sakala bhootha vyApthim-nijabhrut sakala bhootha Prapanna RakshaNAya parispotitha (All NaamAvaLis are preceded byPr (All NaamAvaLisarepreceded S Lakshmi Nrusimha Roopa Simha: RoopaSimha: Lakshmi Nrusimha R BhakthAbheeshtadhAyee Simha: BhakthAbheeshtadhAyee Sri NrusimhaDeva:Aathmana: Adhyadhbuhtha RoopaSimha: I N HiraNyakasipu HaariSimha: Anantha SimhaRaajaSimha: Sri NaarayaNaNaarasimha: NaarAyaNa Roudhrasimha: NaarAyaNa Roudhrasimha: Abhayankara Roopa Simha: Abhayankara Bhuvanaika PoorNasimha: Bhuvanaika RaNa Simha RoopaSimha: NaarayaNa Vyaagrasimha: Brumhitha bhooth asimha: Brumhitha bhoothasimha: NaarAyaNa poorNasimha: BheeshaNa bhadra simha: BheeshaNa bhadrasimha: NaarayaNa pucchasimha: NaarayaNa pucchasimha: PrahlAdha VaradaSimha: Jaya SimhaRoopaSimha: Kaamatha kaamasimha: Narsimha RoopaSimha: NaarayaNa Veerasimha: NaarayaNa Krurasimha: NaarayaNa divyasimha: KaalAgni Rudra Simha: KaalAgni Rudra Nirmala chithrasimha: Vihvala nEthrasimha: Kalpitha kalpa Simha: Kalpitha kalpa Nirjitha KaalaSimha: RUSIMHA MahA PrabhAva: Paryadhrusyatha 17 hya bhaashithamchaSatyam vidhAthum than MahAsthambhE Paryadhrusyatha than MahAsthambhE aNavam “Om”andendwithnama:) aNavam N AAM A VA L I sadagopan.org sadagopan.org SrivaN SatakOpa Srinivasa Yatheendhra MahA Desikan of Ahobila Mutt(25 of Ahobila MahADesikan Yatheendhra SatakOpaSrinivasa SrivaN slokam a I willconcludethispostingwith PothannA’s TeluguBhagavathaman his upany GopalaacchArSwamiin SanthAna a combinationusedas passages are The above Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan Sadagopan VaradAchAri Daasan, OppiliappanKoil Nama: ParabrahmaNe Nrusimha Lakshmi SrImathe bhoothEshvakhilEshuchAthmana: a bhoothEshvakhilEshuchAthmana: Satyam VidhAthum nija bhruthy Satyam VidhAthumnija Sarva VedaanthavEdhyAyakaraNAyaMahaathmanE | Sarvaloka SaraNyAya Sri NrusimhAyaMangaLam || sthambEh sabhAyAm na Mrugam na Maanusham. naMrugamMaanusham. sthambEh sabhAyAm “Prahlaadavaradan in full Alankaram” “Prahlaadavaradan infull svRlaek zr{yayïIn&is