thirup pAvai - part 6 - vyAkyAnams

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Dear Bhaagavathaas, 5:00 AM

mArgazhi day 6

 

Thiruppaavai has many major vyakhyaanms written on it -

moovayira ppadi (3000p padi) by periyavachchaan piLLai

aaraayira ppadi (6000p padi ) by azhagiya maNavaaLap perumaaL

naayanaar

eeraayira ppadi and nalaayira ppadi (2000p padi, 4000p padi) by

aayjanany achaariaar.

 

In addition to that, numerous aachaaryaas have written svaapadEsha

vyaakhyaanams on thiruppaavai. (aay jananyaachaariaar - 4000ppadi

svaapadEsa vyaakhyaanam, the first vaana maa malai jeeyar's

svaapadEsha vyaakhyaanam etc..)

 

Sri Azhagiya Singar has delivered SubhOdini a terse tamil

vyAkyAnam fully immersed in Sri Krishna bhakthi. Sri Utthamoor

swami has delivered a vyAkyAnam for thirup pAvai. (will write on

this later). Sri Srinivasa iyengar, (putthur) father of Sri Sudars

anam Iyengar has written an excellent vyAkyAnam. There are so many

others who have written vyAkyAnams in this century. One person is

writing a 5000 pasurams simply for the thirup pAvai vyAkyAnams. It

may be released soon in this or early part of next century.

There are vyAkyAnams in telugu that our achAryAs themsleves

have delivered. "Solli mAlAthu". ie., I cannot simply write about

all vyAkyAnams in one post. There are so many. To the best

understanding of several tamil scholars, this is the only tamil

literature that has so many vyAkyAnams delivered. It is itself

enough to speak for the glory and importance of thirup pAvai.

 

There is an ardent Srivaishnava from Srivilliputthur by name Sri

Srivilliputthur Villi Swami. He was blessed by ANDAL herself in

person and he delivered a nool called "ANDAL Chandra kalA mAlai".

ie., While ANDAL was garlanding mAlai for perumal, this Sri Vaish

navAL made a garland or mAlai for ANDAL and adorned her holy feet.

(adiyEn will write a separate part on this nool).

 

All we are trying to do, (even though we are in no way qualified

to do these things) is to bring out the thirup pAvai sampradaayam

to those who are not lucky enough to have the vyaakhyaams or

kAlakshEbams bAgyAms to get started in thirup pAvai anubavam so

that they can go out to obtain these vyAkyAnams and reach out to

AchAryAs and attempt to learn at their ponnadi. We try to proivde

some "ruchi" such that one may go out and seek the rich

kAlakshEabams from AchAryAs.

 

In addition to the vyaakhyaaams, we are going to quote directly

from the interpretations of the thiruppaavai upanyaasams of the

current aachaaryaas. If all we do in the next few weeks is to quote

from those upanyaasams, then that in itself will be a worth

while endeavour. But we have to follow Sri bagwath niyamanam as a

guideline and take whatever is referred by any kAlakshEbams about

this specific anubavams prompted by sri bagwath niyamanam.

 

We hope that you all will bear with our going beyond our

limitations and our being unqualified to even touch these

vyaakhyaanams. Our only goal is to bring out the anubavams and its

relvant referrences from vyaakhyaanams and upanyaasams to the group

so that bhaagavathaas who are not fortunate enough to have

them will get an opportunity to experience them. We hope that this

will prompt all of us into going back to our aachaaryaas for more

upanyaasams. Ultimately, we hope that our primary mode of learning

will be directly listening to copies of the upanyaasams of our

aachaaryaas.

 

This was originally posted in a joint effort with adiyEn by Sri

Varadhan and now modified with more references and added by adiyEn.

 

Sri ANDAL thiruvadikaLE saraNam

Sri Boomi dEvi samEtha Sri Oppiliappan thiruvadikaLE saraNam

Sri ANDAL samEtha Sri vadpathra sAyee perumAL thiru vadikaLE

saraNam

Sampath Rengarajan

note: I request bAgawathAs to please read the thaniyans parts from

the archives. We intend to move to the pAsuram with brief touch on what

was posted on 1st pAsuram. Thaniyans - part (old 6), 7.

 

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