nAcciyAr tirumozhi V- kuyil kUvudal 11

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SrI:

SrI ANDAL samEta SrI rangamannAr tiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

 

nAcciyAr tirumozhi V- kuyil kUvudal

pASuram 5.11 (fifth tirumozhi - pAsuram 11 viNNuRa

nINDaDi tAviya maindanai)

 

 

A. Translation from SrImAn SaDagOpan's tamizh treatise:

 

This is the concluding pASuram (phala Sruti) for this

tirumozhi of ANDAL. In this pASuram, ANDAL says:

 

"This tirumozhi was done by godai, who has exquisitely

beautiful eyes (poetically compared to spears because they

are so captivating and penetrating), who is endowed with all

the good qualities befitting a good woman, and who is the

daughter of periyAzhvAr, the leader of all the SrI

vaishNava-s in SrIvilliputtUr who are well-versed in all the

four illustrious Veda-s. The pAsurams were composed with

great love for the emperumAn who measured the three worlds

with His tiruvaDi and are in the form of requesting the cuckoo

"Oh dark cuckoo! Do your sweet warbling so that my lover,

the ocean-hued emperumAn will come to me!". Those who

recite these pAsurams, will get to do kaimkaryam to

emperumAn personally (will reap the benefits of saying

'namO nArAyaNa ')".

 

viNNuRa nINDaDi tAviya maindanai

VERk-kaN maDandai virumbi

kaNNuRa en kaDal vaNNanaik kUvu

karum kuyilE! enRa mARRam

paNNURu nAn maRaiyOr puduvai mannan

paTTarpirAn kodai Sonna

naNNuRu vASaga mAlai vallAr

namO nArAyaNAya enbArE

 

 

B. Some additional thoughts (from SrI PVP):

 

viNNura nINDaDi tAviya maindanai: The use of the words

"nINDu" and "tAviya" to describe BhagavAn's feat of measuring

the three words with His two Feet signifies that if He

decides to take something from anyone, He will make sure that

He gets everything, and will not leave anything behind for the

previous owner.

 

VERk-kaN maDandai virumbi: ANDAL's spear-like eyes alone

are capable of defeating Him with just one glance

("ambanna kannAL"). In addition, she is a uttama strI

(maDandai). But now she stands defeated by Him because of her

intense love for Him (virumbi).

 

kaNNuRa: Just so she can see Him. Why? Because she

wants to make Him the prey for her spearhead-like eyes.

 

en kaDal vaNNanai: His blue-hued tirumeni is capable of

removing everyone's fatigue just like the cool waters of the ocean.

 

naNNuRu vASaga mAlai: naNNuru here means the ten pASurams

have described BhagavAn WELL. This is unlike even the

veda-s which admit to not having been able to describe Him -

Mind and words are unable to comprehend Him fully.

 

yatO vAcO nivartantE | aprApya manasA saha |

Anandam brahamaNO vidvAn | na bi bhEti kutaScanEti ||

(tai. AraNyaka 9-1)

 

namO nArAyaNAya enbArE: Literally this means that those who

learn these ten pASurams will get to chant "namO nArAyaNAya".

The significance of this is brought out in the pallANDu

pASuram given to us by godai's father who declares that

whoever reads his pallANDu pASuram, will get to wish perumAL

"pallANDu" through the ashTAkshara mantra in paramapadam

for a long time (pallANDu):

 

"namo nArAyaNAya enRu pallANDum paramAtmanaic

cUzhndu irundu Ettuvar pallANDe" (tirupallANDu 12)

 

i.e., they will get to do the paramapurushArtha parArtha

kaimkaryam in SrIvaikunTham.

 

The fact that both ANDAL and her father, periAzhvAr,

desire the bhAgyam to do parama kaimkaryam to BhagavAn

in SrIviakunTham confirms that this is a family tradition

that ANDAL is reflecting.

 

SrI PBA adds that by learning these pASurams, one gets

the same benefits that one gets by the anusandhAnam of

the tiru ashTAkshara mantra.

 

Thoughts from SrI rAjagOpAlan: karum kuyil - the black

hue of the kuyil reminds godai of her black-hued kaNNan.

 

sarvam SrIman nArAyaNAyEti samarpayAmi.

 

adiyEn,

Kalyani Krishnamachari