thiru allik kENi - Part 7 - Similarities to thirup pathi and Srirangam

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Acknowledgement Note: I thank Sri Sadagopan for his

excellent posting on the celebration of Lord Parthasarathy

by several great musicians of the era.

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Thiru allik kENi - Part 7 - Similarities to thirup pathi and Srirangam

 

The kshEthram is similar in few ways to both thiruppathi

and srirangam interms of certain festivals. Both this and thirupathi

kshEthrams are the abode of Lord Vengkatan under the vimaanam

anatha and anatha nilaya vimAnam.

 

Since thiru vEngadan appeared here as vEngada krishnan,

purattAsi sani (Saturdays of purataasi month) are very

special here as similar to thirumalai. Thiruppathi.

Swami desikan praises the Lord of kanchi and Arangam

and vEngadam as Narayana, VasudEva and Vishnu and one

will get the palan of chanting the veDa manthiram by

worshipping these three lord at these 3 temples or

together in this thiru allik kEni itself.

 

This is also the kshEthram as similar to many others that

the lord is in the 3 popular sayaNams ie

 

ninRAn - as parthasArathy

irunthAn - as theLLiya singam

kidanthAn - as man nAthar

 

Every Friday

there is a periya thiru manchanam performed for this

Lord vEngada krishnan as similar to thriuppathi. On

every aippasi moolam (moolam star of the month aippasi)

there is a special sevai performed known as "kaiththala

sEvai". This is a very special occasion for this

temple. I am reminded of the its parallel in Srirangam

known as "kaiththAngal sEvai" performed on iraappaththu

7m thirunaal. (ie I remember it as occuring 2 days

after our upayam on 5m thiru naal). Lord namperumaal

will be carried in "bare hands" and darshan is offered

as such. ie no pallaku or dolai is used to carry the

Lord. Incidentally this day is also known in Srirangam

as nammaazwaar moksham. In thiru allik kENi, Prior to

every purappadu the changam is blown at this temple as

similar to the Lord getting ready to goto the battle

field. There is also a set of drums that are also

rolled marking the purappAdu. Although I had personally heard this

changam during my visit to this temple I wanted to

confirm this with a localler who is an ardent devotee

of this Lord. I already knew the significance of the

various aspects of changam used here through my

analysis. I am also told by Smt Vaidehi that the

changam is also blown at each time the Lord is coming

in from his visits and a variety of ubasArams are

offered to this Lord. While all the Lords of different

divya desams are received with certain minimum protocol,

this Lord who is the Raja HIMslef of dwaraka is received

it seems with many such protocols similar to receiving a

king. This is similar to receiving a

King back to his pavilion or receiving a modern day

ruler back to his capital by rolling a red carpet and

offering the reception by all the chief's of the three

armed forces etc. in protocol. Since this Lord is

HIMself a warrior this changam marks HIS presence each

time HE starts out. There other occasions HE had used

changams in HIS avatharam that I will discuss in a

separate post. This is very unique to this temple in

all the 108 DD's. No other temple has this changam

playing the Osai of "paancha chanya changam" (playing

the monotone) during the puRappAdu.

 

Sri Rukimin thAyAr samEtha Sri Parth saraty perumAL

thiruvadikaLE charaNam

 

Sampath Rengarajan