Arunagiri naadhar and nayanmaars

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Dear friends

 

I would like to clarify that Arunagiri naadhar (author of thiruppugaz)

was a Modern Carnatic

music composer and not a Nayanmaar.

 

I am quoting from my home page:

http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/3030

 

Modern Composers

Arunagiri naathar (1450 AD.), a Bengali by origin is supposed to have

composed 16029 Tamil songs.

Of those, 1311 songs called thiruppugazh are now available. He set them

to ragams and thaaLams.

When sung according to his rules they are believed to produce a yogic

state of mind.

 

Annamacharya (1408-1503 AD.) composed mostly in Telugu. He was born a

Smartha and

converted to Sri Vaishnavam. People familiar with aazhvaars' works claim

that many of his compositions

are literal translation of the Tamil paasurams of the aazhvaars.

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Actually Arunagiri naadhar's thiruppugazh falls more in line with

Advaitham than the

works of ancient nayanmaars. The later is saiva sidhhantham and not

advaitham.

The language of the nayanmars is remarkably similar to that of the

aazhvaars.

May be even the philosophy has similarity to Vishistadvaitham. So is the

case

with Basavanna (of Karnataka). Some even call that Saiva

Vistitadvaitham.

 

Thiruppugazh language is highly Sankritized Tamil, similar to that of

the

Modern Tamil music composers (except Bharathiyaar).

 

Many of the thiruppugazh compositions go on sermonizing

(so do many of Basavanna's compositions in Kannada).

One of the thiruppugazh that botheres me is:-

"santhatham bandha thodaraalE chanchalam thunji thodaradhE....."

I understand it as "Do not let your mind wander in confusion, due to

family relations..." May be I am wrong.

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adiyEn

K. srinivasan.

> "narayanan kazhiyur" <nkazhiyur

> Re: paramanin aruL-arunagiri nadar.

> Srimathe ramanujaya nama:

> Dear Bhagavatas,

>

>now our Mr.chandrasekar has talked about arunagiri nadar and

thirupukaz.

>

>infact any person (incl. srivaishnavas) would appreciate if one reads

>works in tamil by saivaite nayanmaras and esp. works by ramalingaswamy

etc.

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