pachchai mA malai pOl mEni

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As Venkatesh pointed out, very often to describe the physique of a man,

their shoulders, chest are compared to mountain. There are lots of

references to this.

 

In periya thirumozhi 7'th paththu

"thaaraaLum varaimaarbaNn thaNchERai"

8'th paththu

"varaimaarbaNn' eNnkiNn RaaLaal," (varai = malai = mountain), His

chest is compared to the mountain.

 

In perumAL thirumozhi

"mallaNaintha varaitthOLaa valvinaiyEn"

"thaararntha thadavaraitthOL thayarathanRaan"

His Shoulders are compared to mountains...

 

But I don't remember His entire body (thirumEni) being compared to

mountain other than in "pachchai mA malai pOl mEni". Could somebody

point out more references?

 

BTW, I feel 'pachchai maa malai pOl mEni' refers to thiruvaraN^gan.

One can argue that any reference to malai implies thirumalai because the

perumAL Himself is in the form of the malai there (like the forest in

naimisAraNyam and the pond in pushkariNi). But that is just an

interesting poetic interpretation. This is my opinion.

 

Moreover any reference to thirumalai would atleast have vada (North) or

vEN^kata prefix.

 

I remember a story that Sri vELukkudi svAmi used to say. There was an

old priest in Srirangam. He had always wanted to go to thiruvEn^katam

but could never make it. He was getting old. One day he went to the

perumAL and told him his wish and asks for permission. PerumAL couldn't

bear the absence of his beloved bhAgavatha for such a long time. He

tries His best to retain the priest in Srirangam itself. But the priest

was steadfast in his plan.

 

So PerumAL asks him to do one last kaimkaryam before he leaves. He asks

him to recite amalanAdhipirAn. The priest happily starts the recital.

while reciting third stanza,

"man^dhi pAy vada vEN^kata mA malai

vAnavargaL san^dhi seyya n^inRAn araN^gath tharavinaNaiyAn..."

the priest realizes there is no other dhivya dhEsam that could match the

thiruvaraN^gam and decides to stay there...

 

So even the reference to vada vEN^kata mAmalai brings his mind back to

thiruvaraN^gam. Such is the glory of the dhivya dhEsam.

 

I was in Srirangam this April for the thiruththEr. What an experience!! Just the

very thought

 

that almost all of our AcharyAs lived there and served perumAL makes one feel

really great.

 

(In fact I stayed in a house which used to be ALavan^dhAr's maTam! ) I visited

the place

 

where piLLai lOkAchAr wrote his rahasya granthams (rahasyam viLaindha maN), the

pillar near which

 

Sri nampiLLai delivered his bhagavadh vishaya kAlakshEbams, the house where Sri

parAsar bhattar

 

lived ... No place can match this.

 

--

Vijay Triplicane

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sri vijay triplicane wrote....

>

>

>But I don't remember His entire body (thirumEni) being compared to

>mountain other than in "pachchai mA malai pOl mEni". Could somebody

>point out more references?

>

 

 

sri thirumangai mannan refers the diety of trivellore (sri veeraragavan)

 

as "evuul perumalai"

 

dasan

 

k m narayanan

 

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