Devanayaka Pancasat (Part 2) - Ibiblio

night. It is rare indeed for some one to experience the bright Sun and the cool
Moon together. The sight of both of them, when having Your sevai a testament
to your agaDitha gaDanA Sakthi (power to unite things and principles, which
can not be experienced together normally).
Mukha Chandran (Moon), Dinakaran (Sun) and andhakAram (Darkness of the
night) are united here by Swamy Desikan.
What Swamy Desikan referred to in this 17 th slOkam as the union of the dark
night (black tresses of the Lord) with the Moon of the Thirumukha manDalam
(Face of the Lord) and the blessings derived from that union (destruction of
the fever of SamsAram) is taken up one step further in the 34 th slOkam of the
Achyutha Sathakam, which was composed by Swamy Desikan after SrI
DevanAyaka PanchAsath. Both of them have roots thus in Swamy KurEsar’s 31 st
slOkam of SrI VaradarAja Sthavam, which was composed in front of Lord
VaradarAja of Kaanchi at the request of Bhagavath RaamAnujA.
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