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nammaa.lvaar tiruvaDigaLE sharaNam !

 

I remember reading somewhere that "shaTa" means "cunning", and

"kopa" means "anger".

 

Curious why namaa.lvaar got the "baddest" name, "shaTa-kopa".

 

Thanks,

 

-Ram

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Dear Sriman Gopalaswamy :

 

SaTha means the saTha vaayu or Satha breath

and not cunning . kOpA means anger and

hence the compounded name of SathakOpA

means one who was angry at Satha

vaayu and drove it away by a hUnkAram ,

while he was in his mother's womb .

 

Why is this Satha Vaayu bad for the AzhwAr to

be angry at it ? This Vaayu is considered

responsbile for Transmigratory births even

while a child is in the womb of its mother .

Azhwaar is credited with the conquest of this

Vaayu and thereby put an end to the cycle of

transmigratory births . He was a muktha Jivan

and had incarnated to bless us with his Sri Sookthis

to liberate us .He would have not put up

with the Satha Vaayu and its chEshtais .

 

Being blessed to bear his name , thanks to the foresight

of my parents , I am happy to be the first one to answer

your question on this important point .

 

My name was given to me because I was born in

Kettai nakshthram , which is the constellation

under which the First AhObila Matam Jeeyar ,

Sri Adhi VaNN SatakOpa Jeeyar was born . I asked my

father for having chosen this name for me and he

gave me the above explanation . I Knew one

SangItha VidvAn by the Name , Sri V.V.Sadagopan ,

who used "d" and "g" in spelling his name .

I adopted it as a boy and that is why I spell

my name as " Sadagopan " instead of " SathakOpan "as

it should be spelled .

 

Satha also means inertia and SathakOpan means ,

the One who conquered inertia that prevents one

from seeking the lotus feet of the SarvalOka

SaraNyan .One who is active can therfore be also

called SathagOpan as one , who is angry at inertia .

This is a loukhika explanation .

 

V.Sadagopan

 

 

 

At 12:37 PM 8/21/98 -0400, you wrote:

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>nammaa.lvaar tiruvaDigaLE sharaNam !

>

>I remember reading somewhere that "shaTa" means "cunning", and

>"kopa" means "anger".

>

>Curious why namaa.lvaar got the "baddest" name, "shaTa-kopa".

>

>Thanks,

>

>-Ram

>

>

>

>

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On 8/21/98 11:51 AM

 

Sri Ram wrote :-

 

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nammaa.lvaar tiruvaDigaLE sharaNam !

 

I remember reading somewhere that "shaTa" means "cunning", and

"kopa" means "anger".

 

Curious why namaa.lvaar got the "baddest" name, "shaTa-kopa".

 

Thanks,

 

-Ram

 

_____________________________Unquote________________________________

 

That is not the meaning of shaTakOpan. The reason for the name is as follows :-

 

When a child is in the womb of its mother, a type of vAyu called shaTa vAyu will

make the child to lose its intelligence and the rememberances of the previous

birth. When NammAzhwAr was born, it is said that he got rid of this shaTa vAyu

by a "hoongAram" with anger.

 

So the name shaTakOpar means " one who got rid of the shaTa vAyu by his anger."

This is the reason for the name.

 

NammAzhwAr thiruvadigaLE saraNam.

 

adiyEn RAmAnuja dAsan

 

Thirumalai Vinjamoor Venkatesh

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Thanks to shrii. V. Sadagopan and shrii. T.V. Venkatesh for clarifying

why namma.lvaar came to be called "shaTakopa".

 

-Ram

 

PS:-

 

I had confused "shaTa" with "shaTha" (= cunning); the latter with an

aspirated retroflex 'Th'.

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