<< Previous<\/a><\/p>\n ALavandhAr<\/a> rues himself saying “brahmA, Siva, sages like sanaka et al get drowned right at the shore of the ocean of bhagavAn<\/a> when trying to praise him; but I set out to comprehensively praise such bhagavAn”, and withdraws from the effort as arjuna gave up fighting after setting out to fight as said in SrI bhagavath gIthA 1.47<\/a> “visrujya saSaram chApam<\/em>” (dropped the bow along with the arrows).<\/p>\n thathvEna yasya mahimArNavaSIkarANu: yasya – that emperumAn<\/a>‘s It is impossible for Siva, brahmA et al to truly measure even a small atom in a droplet of the ocean of greatness of that emperumAn<\/a>. I who has set out to do [sing] praises about such emperumAn’s greatness shamelessly claiming to be a poet, should salute myself [for this laughable effort].<\/p>\n By whom?<\/p>\n In the next article we will enjoy the next SlOkam.<\/p>\n adiyen sarathy ramanuja dasan<\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n pramEyam (goal) \u2013 https:\/\/koyil.org<\/a> SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous Introduction ALavandhAr rues himself saying “brahmA, Siva, sages like sanaka et al get drowned right at the shore of the ocean of bhagavAn when trying to praise him; but I set out to comprehensively praise such bhagavAn”, and withdraws from the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-sthothra-rathnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"dhevas-worshipping-vishnu\"](\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dhevas-worshipping-vishnu.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nIntroduction<\/h3>\n
\nSakyO na mAthumapi SarvapithAmahAdhyai: |<\/em>
\nkarthum thadhIyamahimasthuthimudhyathAya
\nmahyam namO’sthu kavayE nirapathrapAya ||<\/em><\/p>\nWord by word meaning<\/h3>\n
\nmahima arNava SIkara aNu: – even a small atom in a droplet of the ocean of greatness
\nSarva pithAmahAdhyai: api – by Siva, brahmA et al
\nthathvEna – truly
\nmAthum – to measure
\nna Sakya: – impossible
\nthadhIya mahima sthuthim – praises about such emperumAn’s greatness
\nkarthum – to do
\nudhyadhAya – one who has set out
\nnirapathrapAya – shameless
\nkavayE – one claims to be a poet
\nmahyam – for me
\nnama: asthu – should be saluted myself<\/p>\nSimple Translation<\/h3>\n
vyAkyAnam (Commentary)<\/h3>\n
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