Re[2]: tondar-adi-podi azhwAr

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Srimathe Narayanaya Namaha

 

 

 

On 8/2/98 4:56 PM Sri Dileepan wrote :

 

" All this may be little too much for the Kanchivaasees to bear.

After all it is Kanchi DhEvaathidhEvan who nurtured Sri Ramanuja and

gave Him up to Thiruvarangan

to enjoy. They may also point out that it is at the feet of

PEraruLaaLan that our Swami Sri Desikan performed prapatti both in

Tamil:

 

(Adaikkapalpaththu: aththigiri aruLaaLarkku adaikkalam naan

pugundhEnE.) , and

 

in Sanskrit:

 

(Nyasa Vimsathi: "nyasya thvath paadha padhmE Varada nijabharam,

nirbharO, nirbhayOsmi").

 

Don't you think rivalry of this kind is enjoyable."

 

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With reference to Sri Dileepan's note on the above subject, I would

further like to clarify the following,

 

It is very much true that Nammazhvar, as he did prapatti to

Thiruvengadamudaiyan, shall be considered as the lotus feet of

Thiruvengadamudaiyan. But one cannot refute the fact that Thirupathi

is considered second only in line up to Thiruvarangam. As such the

count may be equal considering that Madhurakavi Azhwar sang in praise

of only Satakopan and hence he has sung in praise of

Thiruvengadamudaiyan. However the direct count which does matter a lot

is down by one when Srirangam and Thirupati is considered.

 

Well I believe this type of rivalry is really enjoyable particularly

about the point about the Kanchivasees that Sri Dileepan has referred.

A good one indeed. But I quoted the reference to the Thirupathi Divya

Desam only as a follow up to show that how much our Thondar-adi-podi

azhwar was in love with ONLY Thiruvarangam and not even to any other

swaroopam of Sriman Narayanan.

 

Now I do agree that we Kanchivasees are really unfortunate that our

DevaperumAL is always a point of argument and it is three fold.

 

1. Some say that there are a total of 7 verses sung in praise of Thiru

Atthiyur they are (a) 6-10-4 of Peria Thirumozhi ("kallar madhiL soozh

KACCHI nagaruL...") , (b) verse 19 of Thirukurunthaandagam ("..KACCHI

per mallai enru..") , © verse 9 of Thirunedunthaandagam ("..madhiL

KACCHI ooraai..") , (d) verse 15 of Thirunedunthaandagam

("..kalluyarnda nedu madhiL soozh KACCHI.."), (e) verse 95 of ErandAm

Thiruvandaadhi ("..ulagEthum AzhiyAn ATTHIYURAN"), (f) verse 96 of

ErandAm Thiruvandaadhi ("ATTHIYURAN puLLai oorvAn..") and (g) verse 26

of MoonrAm Thiruvandaadhi (".. niraindha seer neeL KACCHI uLLum ...")

 

2. Some argue that there are only two pasurams for DevaperumaL and those

two are the ones in the ErandAm Thiruvandaadhi as indicated above.

 

3. The third argument, the most unfortunate one is that DevaperumaL

Sannidhi at Kanchipuram is not a DivyadEsam at all for the reason that the

Azhwars have sung only in praise of Atthi Varadar who is now in Sayanam in

the ThirukkuLam. Since the Moolavar in the Sannidhi is not sung by AzhwArs,

this is not a DivyadEsam at all. I would discard it as an argument of those

who are jealous of Kanchipuram attaining the Third Rank in the DivyadEsam

lineup with very lesser number of paasurams.

 

I am only citing the type of arguments that are going on about this

DivyadEsam. Also to this date no body including we Kanchivasees have given

a convincing counter argument for the ones listed at (2) and (3) above.

 

Would like to have further comments on the above from all the members on

whether this kind on rivalry is enjoyable considering the fact that this is

to be taken in a lighter vein.

 

Sri Perundevi Thayar samEtha Sri DevaperumaL thiruvadigaLe saranam.

 

adiyEn RAmAnuja dAsan

 

Thirumalai Vinjamoor Venkatesh