thiruvaaymozhi vyaakhyaanam project - part 1/ introduction

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Dear bhaagavathaas,

 

Sometime back, I was talking to Sri.Sampath Rengaraajan about our

sampradaayam and the topic of sri.PuththUr swaami and his kainkaryam

in publishing the commentaries of our poorvaachaaryaas came up.

Sri.PuththUr swaami has been publishing commentaries of our

poorvaachaaryaas for the past 50 years. Before him, his father,

Sri.PuththUr Srinivaasa Iyengar, was performing this kainkaryam for a

long time.Sri.Rengi mentioned to me about the difficulties that

puththUr swaami has in completing this kainkaryam.

 

I talked to my grandfather in India, about this. He has more that 50

years of experience in doing such kainkaryam along with a host of other

kainkaryams. He adviced us here to go forward with the project, and

thought that this will be an ideal project for us to take up. He also

volunteered to co-ordinate everything in India.

 

The main difficulty that puththUr swaami is facing is obtaining money

to publish the commentaries. We, being her for economic reasons, and

being in a better position with respect to money (10$ = 350 Rs!!), are

suited to participate in his efforts by collecting money and sending it

to him to enable him to perform the kainkaryam of publishing our

poorvaachaaryaas commentary for posterity. It is a safe bet to say

that after puththUr swami's time, it probably will be extremely

difficult, if not impossible, to publish these commentaries.

 

The only copies of the commentaries (given below), that are available

now are more that 70 years old, and the number of copies that are

present probably can be counted with our hands. Some of the

commentaries are in lipi (telugu) script and need to be transliterated

into Tamizh/Sanskrit before they can be published. Right now, puththUr

swaami is the only person that we know that has the capabilities to

transliterate the lipi commentaries into Tamizh/Sanskrit & publish them

in a reasonable timeframe.

 

While I was talking to my grandfather and others in India about this,

Sri.Rengaraajan talked to his uncle in Srirangam, and

Sri.Krishnamaachaari of Raamanuja ratham and obtained a lot of

information that will be posted by him in subsequent posts.

 

The thiruvaaymozhi editions are extensive,

and have the following:

moolam

aaraayirappadi vyaakhyaanam - thirukkurugaipiraan piLLaan

onbadhanaayirappadi - nanjeeyar

panneeraayirappadi - vaadikEsari azhagiya maNavaaLa jeeyar

irupaththunaalaayirappadi - periyavachchaan piLLai

eedu muppaththaaraayirappadi - nampiLLai

adayavaLaindhaan arumpatha viLakkam for eedu - aaththaan jeeyar

jeeyar arumpadham for eedu - kunakarambaakkam raamaanuja jeeyar

draamidOpanishad saaram (one sanskrit stOtram for each decade)

-vEdaanta dEsikar

thiruvaaymozhi nooRRandhaadhi - maNavaaLa maamunigaL.

 

He has already published the first 5 paththus (centuries). The remaining

5 paththus are left. In the next post, I will post the details of how

much money is required. I also have prepared sample, by xeroxing only

the first paasuram of thiruvaaymozhi, and all the vyaakhyaanams

associated with it (about 50 pages). I will be glad to mail it to

anyone that is interested.

 

We invite each and every SriVaishnava to participate in this kainkaryam

(even if we can call this kainkaryam - after all , all we are doing is

give money). Over the next few days, Sri.Rengi and Sri.Mohan have

graciously agreed to post more details regarding this.

 

We request the guidance of the elders in this forum to make this

project successful. We ask for forgiveness for any apachaaram committed

in the process of us posting this.

 

Daasan,

Varadhan