My most favoured divya kshetram- Srivilliputtur

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Sri Vatapatrasayee Perumal Thiruvadigale Saranam

Sri Periazhwar Thiruvadigale Saranam

Sri Andal sametha sri Rangamannar Thiruvadigale Saranam

 

The glory of SRIVILLIPUTTUR and sri ANDAL has been extolled by most of our

Acharyas and Vidwans of our sampradayam and occupies a vast literature.

 

with the current discussion about the best divya desam I would

like to highlight the importance and unique

features of the Divya kshetram Srivilliputtur with my limited

knowledge

 

This is the blessed land where BHOOMA DEVI incarnated as Sri ANDAL

in periyazhwar's nandavanam and gave us the jewel among the prabhandams

the "Thiruppavai" which is the most popular and well known work

among the prabhandams.

 

Sri Ramanujar had a particular liking for Thiruppavai and he

used to exhort other Bhagavathas and Sishyas to do regular anusandhaanam

of Thiruppavai.

 

This is also the birthplace of one of our greatest azhwars

Periyazhwar who had the very rare anugraham of the lord which manifested

in him expounding the supremacy of sriman Narayana in the court of the

Pandya king directly through his grace(the lord sat on his tongue)

and also compose the Thirupallandu wishing the lord long long years

of life which earned him the special honour and title of PERIAZHWAR

 

Thus this is the only kshetram which can claim to be the

birthplace of 2 of the 12 azhwars.

 

The Sri Andal Thiruther is the largest and the tallest

ther among all the Divya kshetrams and where can one hope to get the

darsanam of the utsavamoorthy's continuously for more than a day

than at Srivilliputtur during the thiruther utsavam.

 

This is one of the very few kshetrams where you can

enjoy the araiyar sevai during Margazhi utsavam.After all this sevai was

(and is) the dearest to the lord who granted the 64 araiyar families

of thirukurangudi whatever they wanted after enjoying their service.

This is the only divya desam where the lord is able to enjoy the araiyar

sevai thrice during the Margazhi utsavam even today.

 

Comming back to the Adi thirunal utsavam anyone who gets

a good view of the krishnankovil sayanam sevai on the yettam thirunal

will be simply motionless and spellbound and will not be able to

move from there unless pulled by the temple volunteers

 

Sri ANDAL presented to the lord the garlands worn by her

and overpowered the lord with her beauty.Thus she made lord Ranganatha

utterly dependent on her and married him in srivilliputtur (Again

this kshetram was blessed to be the place of their Thirukalyanam)

She continues to reside in srivilliputtur with sri Rangamannar

at her father's house

 

I would thus vote for Srivilliputtur as my most

favoured Divya Desam

 

adiyen

 

venkat s iyengar