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Sri:

Srimate Sri Lakshminrusimha Parabrahmane namaha

 

Dear Sri Mani,

namO nArAyaNA.

 

Mani Varadarajan wrote:

> It is a common misunderstanding that the sloka refers to Ramanujacharya

> the bhAshyakAra. The best evidence for this is in the Vadagalai saaRRumuRai

> itself.

> ---- cut ---

> Of course Desika was also a pAtram for the grace of Bhagavad

> Ramanuja -- but he was not unique in that respect, and from

> what I have read and feel, this is not the intention of the

> sloka.

>

 

To state it in a different way, the word "ramanuja" in this taniyan

primarily refers to Atreya ramanujar and then in a secondary sense refers to

Yatirajar. We can't say that the intention of the taniyan is to exclude the

meaning that swami desikan is "yatirajar's" dayA pAtram. This taniyan is

so composed that it gives such "double" meaning. Taniyan could have been

"AtrEya rAmAnuja dayA pAtram ....". But since it is "rAmAnuja dayA pAtram..

",

the thiru uLLam of Brahmatantra svatantra Jeeyar might have been to

employ the double meaning. This is adiyEn's guess. One might come up with

another interpretation for "rAmAnujA" and relate that with the taniyan. But,

they

are not the primary intention. As Sri Mani stated, the primary intention is

to

refer to KidAmbi AppuLLAr ie. AtrEya rAmAnujar.

 

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan

ananthapadmanAbha dAsan

krishNArpanam