Thiru maal irum sOlai - part 6 - kaLLazhagar in ilakkiyam

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Azhagar maahathmiyam in tamil and other literatures

 

It is known that Lord Maha vishnu and his avathArams

Ramar and Krishnar are referred and called using the

word "ahzagar" in vada mozhi sanskrit. Similarly the

lord in madurai is also known as "koodal azhagar". the

Lord of thiru maal irum sOlai is known as azhagar ,

kaLLaazhgar and his station is known as "azhagar

malai". ANdAL who was enchanted by the beauty of this

Lord addressed

 

608:

ezhiludaiya vammanaimeer! ennarangath thinnamuthar,

kuzhalazhagar vaayazhagar kaNNazhagar, koppoozhil

ezhukamalap poovazhaga remmaanaar, ennudaiya

kazhalvaLaiyaith thaamum kazhalvaLaiyE yaakkinarE.

nAchchiyAr thiru mozhi 11.2 , ANDAL

 

 

this Lord as "kuzhal azhagar, vaay azhagar, and

koppozhil ezhu kamla poovazhagar" in naachiyaar

thirumozhi. Thiru mangai

 

 

1758:

poNnNnivar mENni maraga thaththiNn

poNGgiLaNY chOdhi yagalaththaaram

miNn,ivar vaayilnNal vEdha mOdhum

vEdhiyar vaaNnava raavar_thOzhI,

eNnNnaiyum nNOkkiyeNn Nnalkulum nNOkki

EnNdhiLaNG goNGgaiyum nNOkkugiNnRaar,

aNnNnaiyeNn NnOkkumeNn Ranchu kiNnRENn

"achchO or'uvar azhagiyavaa'!" (2) 9.2.1

 

periya thiru mozhi , thirumangai azhwAr

 

called him "achcho Oruvar 'ahzgiya'vaa !". It is conceived

that this name kaLLazhagar became sundara rajan in

sanskrit as well. The Ursavar is the most beautiful

ursavar of all the 108 ursavars including nachiyaar

koil, thiruk kudanthai, ponnappan, thirunarayana puram,

and vaduvoor raamar the ex thiruk kannapuram ursavar.

The ursavar is made of aparanchi a form of purest gold

and is so bright and yellow in color as compared to

many pancha Loka idols tat are light yellow and light

red tinged. There is a divya prabandam ie. an exclusive

literature other than 4000, known as "sOlai malaik

karasar" defines the beauty of this Lord in great

detail and it addresses HIM as "rishabAthishar". It is

consdered here that this ursavar is more popular than

the moolavar of this khsEthram. In this kshEthram the

ursavar is also seen with HIS pancha Ayudhams.

 

Sri ANdAL thiruvadikaLE charaNam

Sri SridEvi thAyAr samEtha Sri kaLLazhagar

thiruvadikaLE charaNam

Sampath Rengarajan

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Rengi wrote:

>

> It is known that Lord Maha vishnu and his avathArams

> Ramar and Krishnar are referred and called using the

> word "ahzagar" in vada mozhi sanskrit.

 

Is this correct? I think azhagar is purely a Tamil word.

Of course Perumal is called Sundaran and Sundararajan

in Sanskrit, which are literal translations of ``azhagar''.

 

Mani