thiruch chandha viruththam - an interesting piece!!

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Hello,

I was listening to thiruppaavai kaalakshEbam by vELukkudi Sri KrishNan. He

referred to this very interesting paasuram which caught my attention.

 

thiruch chanNdha viruththam

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koNdaikoNda kOthaimeethu

thEnulaavu koonikoon,

uNdaikoNda rankavOtti

yuLmakizhntha naathaNnoor,

naNdaiyuNdu naaraipEra

vaaLaipaaya neelamE,

aNdaikoNdu keNdaimEyu

manthaNeera rankamE. (2) (49)

 

 

thirumazhisaiyaazvaar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

 

The first four lines talk about Sri Raamaar's childhood. It describes how he

used to play and make fun of kooni by shooting arrows on her bent back!

(Apparently this is one of the very few incidents in raamaayaNam which talks of

HIS pranks as a kid).

The most interesting part is the remaining 4 lines. On a cursory look it can

be translated as follows:

naNdai uNdu - After eating the crab

nNaarai pEra - the crane (not sure what pEra is? probably looking for some

more food or resting???)

vaaLai paaya - A kind of fish called "vaaLai" jumps about trying to escape

keNdai - Another kind of fish called "keNdai"

neelamE aNdai koNdu mEyum - swims by the side of a Blue flower

anthaNeer araNGgamE - the land of sriraNGgam with brahmins.

 

It looks like a description of a pond where there is a crane eating crabs

and 'vaaLai' and keNdai' and the BlueFlower are also described. OK! But how

does it get connected to the brahmins living in sriraNGgam????

 

Looking at it more closely, nNaarai (the crane) represents the ahaNGgaaram.

nNaNdu (crab) which was eaten by the crane represents the ordinary humans:

they were eaten by their ahaNGgaaram.

The 'vaaLai' fish is said to jump here and there trying to escape from the

crane. It is afraid that the crane might eat him next and it jumps here and

there trying to escape (vaaLai paaya).

The other fish 'keNdai' takes the refuge of the BlueFlower and is not at all

bothered by the crane and is totally happy!! It doesn't even try to escape

even though it knows that the crab was eaten by the crane and is looking

for more food.

vaaLai represents people who are good but are misled and they adopt

upaayaanthram (non-prescribed means of attaining the goal?- ) and they think

that by 'trying' to escape they, by themselves could take care of them. This

is not a 'complete surrender' to HIM.

But the keNdai represents people who have completely surrendered themselves

to HIM and are not at all bothered by any of these cranes(in general any

evil).

The BlueFlower actually represents the LORD under whom the keNdai takes

refuge.

sriraNGgam is filled with anthaNars (brahmins) of this 'keNdai' kind.

 

The usage of neelam'E' aNdai koNdu (with an Ekaaram, nedil) has so many

inner meanings. It stresses on the parathvam of the LORD. Another reference

to such an usage is in thiruppaavai " naaraayaNanE namakkE paRai tharuvaan"

This stresses at two places naaraayaNan'E' and namakk'E' . ONLY naaraayaNan

can save us. And if at all he is saving anybody He will save ONLY us!!! (the

bhakthaas).

 

isn't this so wonderful and appealing!!!

 

Thought of sharing this with others in the group. I don't have any

vyaakyaanam for this. If somebody could provide more info please post.

 

rukmiNI samEdha Sri paarthasaarathi swaami thiruvadigaL'E' charaNam

 

-Viji

(Vijay Triplicane)