nappinnai

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Hello,

In what context is nappiNnNnai described in chilappathikaaram? I

am just curious. does it talk anything about kaNNaNn? this is

interesting!

I think, i heard abt the unNdhu mathagaLiRRaNn paasuram in a radio

commentary during the early morning maargazhi - programme. probably i

hadn't got the full grasp of it. i understood it as ramanujar with his

great devotion, assumed aaNdaaL herself appearing before him and fell on

her feet out of charaNaagathithvam. once this thread is over, dileepan,

can u post that periya nambi's story?

where can we get hold of periya vaachchaan pillai's commentary?

badri pls post.

thanks

viji

 

 

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Vijayaraghavan T. R.

viji

[Guest guest]

* Hello,

* In what context is nappiNnNnai described in chilappathikaaram? I

* am just curious. does it talk anything about kaNNaNn? this is

* interesting!

 

Here is the relevent portion from silambu:

 

\bt

avaruL,

vaN_thuzhaay maalaiyai maayavan mElittuth

thaNdaak kuravaithaan uLpaduvaaL - koNdaseer

vaiyam aLandhaan_than maarbil thirun^Okkaap

peyvaLaik kaiyaaL n^appinnai thaan aam_enRE

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ai_enRaaL aayar makaL;

\et

 

this appears in the chapter on aaychchiyar kuravai.

kaNNaki is staying with the aaychchiyar while kOvalan

has gone to sell his wife's anklet. He gets killed

there. Just at the very same time, the aayar/aaychchiyar

find a lot of bad omen, so they decide to pray to the

God of the mullai (pastoral) land - krishna. kuravai

is a form of kooththu.

 

vaiyam aLandhaan - vaamana/thirivikraman

maayavan - krishnan

 

There is absolutely no doubt about this legend by the

time of ilangO adikaL. Consider one more interesting

quote from the same chapter.

 

"kanRu kuNilaak kani udhirththa maayavan"

 

and refer to aaNdaaL's

 

"kanRu kuNilaay eRindhaay kazhal pORRi"

 

* where can we get hold of periya vaachchaan pillai's commentary?

* badri pls post.

 

I do not really know where one can get piLLai's commentary.

I am getting these books from Cornell University Library.

The publisher and distributor is:

 

Sri.Krishnaswamy Iyengar, M.A. B.L.

Editor, Sri Vaishnava Sudarsanam

3, Puththur Agraharam, Trichy, 620 017

 

I am sure, people should be able to get this in Madras too.

 

* thanks

* viji

 

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S.Badrinarayanan

Graduate Student

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Cornell University

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