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Pradeep Janakiraman • Thu Nov 28 2002 - 12:36:48 PST 


From: "Pradeep Janakiraman"  
Date: Thu Nov 28, 2002 0:37am 
Subject: Re: desikan's vairagya panchakam  


To the best of my understanding, these verses were a spontaneous 
response to a request by "Vidyaranya" who was serving in the court of 
Krishna Deva Raya. 

Apparently, both Vidyaranya and Desika were friends from an young age 
and later Vidyaranya took to KrishnaDevaraaya's court patronage, 
while Desikan chose to live a simple life. 

But when Desikan's greatness was mentioned in the court by 
Vidyaranya, Krishnadevaraaya wanted to see him. Vidyaranya sent a 
message once, which Desikan refused, and then he sent he sent one 
more, in response to which Desikan composed these verses. 

In the 5th verse, he uses the word "Dhanam" 10 or 11 times in 
different contexts and its a master-piece. It is accesible as a PDF 
at the following place:
http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/acharyas/desika/stotras/pdf/vairagya.pdf

-- Pradeep






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