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Dikshitar was very familiar with Desikar's stavam.
If Desikar would adopt the Bhagavatic word
मुह्यन्ति found in the opening Sloks मुह्यन्ति यत्सूरयः
Dikshitar points out in his commentary that the
last Pada of this Sloka has the idea underlying the
famous Bhagavata Sloka
स वाग्विसर्गो जनताघविप्लवो
यस्मिन् प्रतिश्लोकमबद्धवत्यपि ।
नामान्यनन्तस्य यशोऽङ्कितानि
शृण्वन्ति गायन्ति गुणन्ति साधवः ॥
Would not the poet who attempts the impossi-
ble viz., the description of the immeasurable and
the unspeakable, become the laughing stock of
the wise? This is the first interpretation given
in the commentary adopting the reading बुधजनस्य.
The poet then gives a beautiful turn by adopting
the reading. The good would not deride
the words of the meanest poet on God however ab-
surdly ridiculous they might be, but would treasure
them and sing them with joy. Fools who may not
understand the duty to praise all words in praise
of the Infinite, however inartistic and uncouth,
may scoff at them. This interpretation may not
have occurred to us if the poet himself had not
brought it out in the commentary.
Dikshitar was very familiar with Desikar's stavam.
If Desikar would adopt the Bhagavatic word
मुह्यन्ति found in the opening Sloks मुह्यन्ति यत्सूरयः
Dikshitar points out in his commentary that the
last Pada of this Sloka has the idea underlying the
famous Bhagavata Sloka
स वाग्विसर्गो जनताघविप्लवो
यस्मिन् प्रतिश्लोकमबद्धवत्यपि ।
नामान्यनन्तस्य यशोऽङ्कितानि
शृण्वन्ति गायन्ति गुणन्ति साधवः ॥
Would not the poet who attempts the impossi-
ble viz., the description of the immeasurable and
the unspeakable, become the laughing stock of
the wise? This is the first interpretation given
in the commentary adopting the reading बुधजनस्य.
The poet then gives a beautiful turn by adopting
the reading. The good would not deride
the words of the meanest poet on God however ab-
surdly ridiculous they might be, but would treasure
them and sing them with joy. Fools who may not
understand the duty to praise all words in praise
of the Infinite, however inartistic and uncouth,
may scoff at them. This interpretation may not
have occurred to us if the poet himself had not
brought it out in the commentary.