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I am rejoining the Bhakti list after a 2 month break.

I am keenly following Sri Sadagopan's postings and other

postings on raghuveeragadyam. Here is a small portion

from a thamizh work:

 

moovulakum eeradiyaan muRain^irambaa vakaimudiyath

thaaviya sEvadi sEppath thambiyodum kaanpOndhu

sO_araNum pOrmadiyath thollilangai kattazhiththa

sEvakan_seer kELaatha sevi_enna seviyE

thirumaal_seer kELaatha sevi_enna seviyE!

 

Guess the work and the author. The stanzas preceding

this in the work will remind one of 'athimaanushasthavam'.

 

--badri

 

(PS: I am right now in Madras, where I will be staying for

at least one more year.)

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At 04:13 AM 12/19/96 GMT, Badri wrote from Madras:

>

>moovulakum eeradiyaan muRain^irambaa vakaimudiyath

>thaaviya sEvadi sEppath thambiyodum kaanpOndhu

>sO_araNum pOrmadiyath thollilangai kattazhiththa

>sEvakan_seer kELaatha sevi_enna seviyE

>thirumaal_seer kELaatha sevi_enna seviyE!

>

>Guess the work and the author.

 

 

Off and on there have been claims about the deity in ThiruvEngadam being

other than Lord Vishnu. Even during Sri Ramanuja's time there seems to

have been some dispute about this. The author of the above verse, "IlAngO

AdigaL", a Jain who is at least 300 years before Sri Ramanuja's time, sings

about ThiruvEngadam in the same work "Silappathikaaram" thus:

 

"...pagai aNangu aazhium, pAl veN sangamum,

thagai peRu thaamaraik kaiyin Endhi,

nalangiLar Aram maarbiR pooNdu,

polam poo Adaiyin polindhu thOnRiya,

sengaN nediyOn ninRa vaNNamum..."

 

There cannot be any doubt. Here Ilango mentions "pagai aNangu aazhi" and

paalveN sangu" are worn in His hands "kaiyin Endhi". Yet, it seems the

deity did not have these weapons at the time of Sri Ramanuja!?

 

The verse Badri quotes should be familiar to those who have heard MS's

"Vadavaraiyai maththaakki".

 

 

Thanks, Dileepan

 

 

-- Dileepan