thiruppaavai verse 2 clarification

[Guest guest]

Dear Members,

 

What exactly is the meaning of the words

"aiyamum, piccaiyum, aandhanaiyum kai kaatti"

that occur in the second verse of the thiruppaavai?

 

I know Andal is generally saying that she and

her fellow observers of the paavai nonbu will

give generously. But what is the distinction

between the three groups of recipients?

 

I would appreciate both literal Tamil meanings

as well as further elaborations by the acharyas.

 

Thanks,

tirukacci nambi daasan

Mani

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Sri:

 

Dear Sri Mani,

 

This is what I understood and had read/heard before on this pAsuram of

Thiurppaavai.

 

Verse 2 : explains the 'anukoolyasya sankalpam' (doing that which pleases

the Lord) and 'pratikoolyasya varjanam' (not doing and avoiding that which

displeases the Lord).

 

anukoolyasya sankalpam in this verse is referred in the words aadi, paadi,

neeraadi, aiyam ittu, picchai ittu, ugandhu, etc...

and those to be avoided are as Pratikoolyasya varjanam are neyyuNNOm, paal

uNNOm, maiittu

yezhudhOm, malarittu naam mudiyOm, seyyaadhana seyyOm, theekkuRaLai senRu

OdhOm

 

Once, in an upanyaasam, Sri KrishnaprEmi referred to these words as: aiyamum

is dedication to Bhagawaan or offering to the Lord (Bhagavadh arpaNam);

picchai is dedication to BhAgawathAs and guests (athithees); aandhanaiyum

kaikaatti is to the best of our ability; uyyumaaReNNi is ' bhara samarpanam'

and ugandhu refers " MahaViswaasam''.

 

I am sure there are mistakes in them. Scholars and learned erudite

bhAgawathAs like Sri Anbil Swamy, Sri SadagOpan may correct/supplement with

lovely, rich better explanations.

 

Regards

 

Narayana dAsan

>

> Mani Varadarajan [sMTP:mani]

> Friday, November 20, 1998 7:31 AM

> bhakti

> thiruppaavai verse 2 clarification

>

>

> Dear Members,

>

> What exactly is the meaning of the words

> "aiyamum, piccaiyum, aandhanaiyum kai kaatti"

> that occur in the second verse of the thiruppaavai?

>

> I know Andal is generally saying that she and

> her fellow observers of the paavai nonbu will

> give generously. But what is the distinction

> between the three groups of recipients?

>

> I would appreciate both literal Tamil meanings

> as well as further elaborations by the acharyas.

>

> Thanks,

> tirukacci nambi daasan

> Mani

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Madhavkkannan wrote:

>

> Once, in an upanyaasam, Sri KrishnaprEmi referred to these words as: aiyamum

> is dedication to Bhagawaan or offering to the Lord (Bhagavadh arpaNam);

> picchai is dedication to BhAgawathAs and guests (athithees); aandhanaiyum

> kaikaatti is to the best of our ability; uyyumaaReNNi is ' bhara samarpanam'

> and ugandhu refers " MahaViswaasam''.

 

Dear Madhavakkannan,

 

Thank you for this explanation. This roughly corresponds

to what Periya Accaan Pillai and others have written as

the svApadESa artham (allegorical meaning). However, my

doubt is about what the basic Tamil meaning is, as Tamil

words go. What are the literal meanings of the three words?

 

Mani