Sriman T.S.Sundararajan 's Excellent posting on Ekadasis

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Dear BhakthAs : It was good to read about the references

to Varaha PurANam ( Bhumi Devi-Varaha PerumAn's sambhAshaNA ) ,

Sri NarAyaNeeyam and Parasara Bhattar's successors

reading Kaisika PurANam at the great temple of

Srirangam .

 

The related thoughts on Parasara Bhattar's reading of the Kaisika

MahAthmyam housed in the VarAha PurANam ( chapter 48) are:

 

Bhattar's recitation of the 92 verses of chapter 48 of varaha PurANam

before the Lord on the midnight of Sukla Paksha

Kaisika EkAdasi of Kaisika PurAnam evoked such deep feelings of

Bhakthi that the assembled Brahmins carried Bhattar on a palanquin

( Brahma Ratham ) around the streets of Srirangam . A Latter day

commentator known as Sribhashyam NaraayaNA refers to this incident

in the preface to his commentary on Bhattar's SriguNarathna Kosam this way :

 

" SriranganAtha.. kaisikhapurANa -sravaNa samuddhitha

mahimOllAsitha -bhaasura -rangaramaNa - karuNAsamaasAdhita

Brahamratha Vaibhava : "

 

Bhattar wrote mostly in Sanskrit except for twoTamil works.

One is the paraphrase of kaisika mahAthmyam and the other

is the commentary on a particular stanza of Thirumangai mannan's

ThirunedumthAndakam . In the Kaisika purANa commentary , Bhattar

extolls the significance of singing the Lord's vaibhavam during

Brahma Muhartham and points out that all the AvathArams of the Lord

are of great significance , since they relate to the UpayA for Moksham .

 

V. Sadagopan