Guest guest Posted July 17, 2002 Report Share Posted July 17, 2002 At 04:48 PM 7/17/02 +0800, JayBee wrote: Harshanand wrote: >>OM shrii lalitaa mahaatripurasundarii paraabhaTTaarikaa sametaaya >>shrii chandramauliishwara parabrahmaNe namaH >> >> .. >>aanandasaagarastavaH .. >> >>## Ananda Sagara Stava is a beautiful hymn to Sri Minakshi. Sri >>Minakshi is the sthoola form of goddess Sri Rajashyamala. > >>This marvelous hymn was composed by Sri Nilakantha dikshita. > > There is a story about how he lost his eye-sight. > Tirumalai Nayak is one of the prominent Nayak kings >of Madurai country. > > As a part of the grand programme, Tirumalai was >building a most beautiful Vasantha Mantapam just in front >of the Eastern Gateway. > >> It was this Vasantha Mantapa which caused >Nilakanta Dikkshitar to lose his eyes. > I will continue the story after this. > >Regards > >JayBee > Continued..... The marvellous project of building the Vasantha Mantapam was assigned to Sumanthira Aasaari. Under him hundreds of workmen, building masons, and sculptors were at work. The Vasantha Mantapam is adorned with huge pillars. The pillars at the front, near the kolu mantapam have the statues of all the Nayakkar kings who ruled Madurai before Tirumalai. The final statue is that of Tirumalai himself. All the Naayakkars are surrounded by their wives. Not all the wifes, though. Just the prominent ones. Tirumalai himself had two hundred wives. It would have taken a total gallery to accommodate them all. Sumanthira himself was crafting the statues of Tirumalai and his wives. When Sumanthira was sculpting the thigh of the younger ueen, his chisel slipped and broke off a chunk from the thigh. Sumanthira cast the whole pillar aside and ordered a new slab of stone and started making the statues. Again the chisel slipped in the same place and caused the same damage. Sumanthira again ordered a new stone and started back aagin. For the third time, the chisel caused the same damage. Sumanthira was flabbergasted. At that time, the Minister Niilakanta Diikshitar was around. He was told about the mishap. Niilakanta told Sumanthira that the young queen had a blemish in the thigh according to 'Saamudrika Lakshana'. Hence the pillar need not be changed. So no change was made. When the pillar was finished, Tirumalai Naayakkar came to see it. But he noticed the blemish in the thigh of the young queen. He asked Sumanthira why the blemish was not corrected. "Your learned minister, the Great Niilakanta said that there is a blemish in the thigh of the young queen. Everybody knows that he can never be wrong. So I left it as it is." Tirumalai was wrath-filled and went back to his andhapuram. He called the young queen and inspected her thigh. There it was. Now a terrible suspicion filled the heart of Tirumalai. Immediately he sent his warriors to catch Niilakanta and blind him. The soldiers proceeded to Niilakanta's palace. Niilakanta was doing his puja at that time. Through his powers of telepathy, he knew that the soldiers were coming to blind him. He did not want to be humiliated in such a way. So he blinded his own eyes with the burning karpuura flame by himself after the puuja. Tirumalai heard about this and regretted his mistake after realising the innocence of Nillakanta. It was after that, that Niilakanta sang those beautiful hymns. When he sang about the beautiful eyes of Miinaakshi and regretted that he was unfortunate enough not to be able to see those beautiful eyes anymore, his eye sight was restored by the Grace of Miinaakshi. Tirumalai wanted to reinstate Niilakanta as the minister, but Niilakanta declined. Triumalai gave him an 'Aachaarya BOgam' in TirunelvEli territory where Niilakanta retired and spent his remaining Golden Years in harmony with nature and the Goddess. Regards JayBee > >>As >>soon as he finished singing the sixty-first verse, the goddess >>appeared before him and granted him vision. From then on, he >>completely devoted himself to the service of Sridevi. This fine hymn >>is not only known for its poetic brilliance, but also for its intense >>emotions. The poet has brought out the essence of the entire >>Upanishads in this hymn, in a simple lucid manner. ## >> >> >>yatraanamanpashupatiH praNayaaparadhe mandaM kila spR^ishati >>chandrakalaa~nchalena . >>puShpaarchane.api mR^iditaM padayoryugaM tanmaatastudanti na kathaM >>paruShaa giro me .. 60 .. >> >>avyaajasundaramanuttaramaprameyamapraakR^itaM >>paramama~Ngalama~Nghripadmam . >>sa~Mdarshayedapi sakR^idbhavatii dayaardraa draShTaasmi kena tadahaM >>tu vilochanena .. 61 .. >> >>divyaa dR^isho.api diviShadgrahaNochitaani vastuuni >>kaamamavadhaarayituM kShamante . >>tvanmaatrevedyavibhave tava ruupadheye tvadbhaava eva sharaNaM >>parisheShito naH .. 62 .. >> 7 .. >> >>chaturadhyaayiiruupaM kalahamsavya~njana~M jaganmaatuH . >>aparabrahmamayaM vapurantaH shashikhaNDamaNDanamupaase .. 108 .. >> >> .. iti shrii niilakaNThadiikShitavirachitaH shrii >>aanandasaagarastavaH sampuurNaH .. >> >> .. shrii raajaraajeshwarii priiyataam ..> >> >>AUM shrImAtre namaH >>AUM namaH shivAya >>AUM namaH shivAbhyAm >> >>Archives : http://www.ambaa.org/ (Edited) >> : /messages// >> >>Contact : help >> =========================== Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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