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clearly in his commentary on the sloka, where he
says that the Anandamaya might be the outermost
Kosa as Sri Sankara would say or might be the
innermost Brahman itself as Sri Ramanuja would
say.
In the 11th Sloka the Poet makes very fine
use of the fact that there are 24 steps to be
ascended to reach the shrine containing the Lord's
image. He says that the 24 steps are the
material tattvas which have to be transgressed
before reaching the Lord. In the 12th sloka the
poet makes use of the name of Punyakoti given for
the Vimanana and asks finely 'How can you be
reached without attaining Punyakotis (a crore of
Punyas)? Did not Brahma (Hiranyagarbha) born
of the navel-lotus find it impossible to get sight of
you without earning the Punya of Asvamedha ?'
This sloka is perhaps reminiscent of Desikar's sloka
यं चक्षुषामविषयं ह्रयमेधयज्वा
द्राघीयसा सुचरितेन ददर्श वेधाः ।
तं त्वां करीश करुणापरिणामतस्ते
भूतानि हन्त निखिलानि निशामयन्ति ॥
The 16th sloka is simply beautiful although
there is a little slesha (pun) on the word Pratyak.
The word means both the innermost as Atman and
clearly in his commentary on the sloka, where he
says that the Anandamaya might be the outermost
Kosa as Sri Sankara would say or might be the
innermost Brahman itself as Sri Ramanuja would
say.
In the 11th Sloka the Poet makes very fine
use of the fact that there are 24 steps to be
ascended to reach the shrine containing the Lord's
image. He says that the 24 steps are the
material tattvas which have to be transgressed
before reaching the Lord. In the 12th sloka the
poet makes use of the name of Punyakoti given for
the Vimanana and asks finely 'How can you be
reached without attaining Punyakotis (a crore of
Punyas)? Did not Brahma (Hiranyagarbha) born
of the navel-lotus find it impossible to get sight of
you without earning the Punya of Asvamedha ?'
This sloka is perhaps reminiscent of Desikar's sloka
यं चक्षुषामविषयं ह्रयमेधयज्वा
द्राघीयसा सुचरितेन ददर्श वेधाः ।
तं त्वां करीश करुणापरिणामतस्ते
भूतानि हन्त निखिलानि निशामयन्ति ॥
The 16th sloka is simply beautiful although
there is a little slesha (pun) on the word Pratyak.
The word means both the innermost as Atman and