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Daya Satakam Of Vedanta Desika
A hymn in praise and mercy of Lord Venkateshwara
By D. Ramaswamy Ayyangar
Published by Tirumala-Tirupati Press, Tirupati - 1961

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Sri Vedanta Desikan (1268–1369)[1] was a Sri Vaishnava guru/philosopher and one of the most brilliant stalwarts of Sri Vaishnavism in the post-Ramanuja period. He was a poet, devotee, philosopher and master-teacher (desikan). He was the disciple of Kidambi Appullar, also known as Aathreya Ramanujachariar, who himself was of a master-disciple lineage that began with Ramanuja.

Desikan stayed in several cities through his life such as Thiruvaheendrapuram, Kanchipuram, Srirangam and Melkote. He also travelled widely all over India on foot.

At each place, he composed many different works in languages such as Tamil, Sanskirt, Prakrit and Manipravala (a mixture of Sanskrit and Tamil) that revealed his ingenuity, creativity, logic, linguistic expertise, devotional fervour and erudite scholarship.

He composed over hundred works in all.

The Daya Satakam are a hundred verses eulogising the mercy or daya of the Lord of Tirumala. The work is divided into 10 decads, each portraying different qualities of the personified mother, Dayadevi. It commences with the short anushtab metre. Each successive decad employs a more complex metre, till it culminates in decorative poetry that is a sheer delight to hear.

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