thiru mangai thiru aranga thirup pani - part 2 - golden statue

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Thiruk kaNNa mangai - part 10 - Thirumangai thiru aranga thirup

pani - part - 2 - golden statue

 

note: part 1 is posted in bhakti long ago as a continuation of

thiruk kaNNa mangai thala purAnam part 9. According so some this

may be a mere fiction or fantasy. But adiyEn is referring from

well researched sources.

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Dear bAgawathAs,

Sri kumuthavalli samEtha Sri thirumangai AzhwAr thiruvadikalE saraNam

 

It was periya perumAL thiru uLLam that thiru mangai had to

do the thirup pani or construction of madhil or compond wall for

periya kOil. It required lot resources and those days were also

similar to the present days. (*). Unlike the current days

thirumangai was set to mobilise all the resources using all his

myth and if required with his shear strenth as the padai thalivan

or captain of the army as well. However, there were not many

resources avavilable even for one to be taken by the other those

days. In nagap pattinam known as thiru nAgai, there was a buddha

temple that had a golden buddhA statue. Thirumangai mannan came

to know of it. Thirumangai's friends suggested to him that if

they can have that vigraha then the temple construction can be

completed with much ease. However, that temple was secured and

controlled by strict vigil.

 

It is said that, thirumangai deicided to abduct that

statue and use it for periya kOil mathil thiru pani. He chose

handful of his parivAram and arrived at thiru nAgai. They went

around the temple and found no way to enter it easily. There was

a secret entrance through an underground tunnel available for

boudhars alone and such tunnel was also originating from a thick

woods several hundred feet away. It is said that, the entrance to

the tunnel was heavily guarded and admission was strictly

restricted to boudhrar only.

 

Since it is impossible to enter through that entrance,

they planned for another route. There was a sthubi that one can

see from outside. If one can climb that and dig in a hole through

that then one can land on the inside. However, the spies informed

him that there is a machine on the landing spot that will suck the

person into it and cut them off. On knowing these details

thirumangai learnt as to where the sippi or the architect who

fabricated that machine. It was learnt that the architect was

living in Srilanka then. It was also learnt that the architect

had a decre on him that if he ever reveal the secrets of the

machine, his head will be chopped off. It was said that the

architect agreed to that decre and obtained a lot of compensation

for the services he rendered in fabricating and installing the

mechanism and took his wealth to Srilanka and was living there.

 

Thirumangai planned a trip to Srilanka with his aides to

meet with the architect of the machine.

 

Note: (*) One may recall as to how efforts our 44th Jeer had to

take to mobilise all the required resources to build the Raja

Gopuram in the last decade. Similarly our Sri Venkat a parama

ekAnthi (45 Jeer addressed him so when he recently addressed north

American shishyALs through a tele conference) is struggling hard

to mobilise sufficient resources to build the Sri RanganAtha

temple in Pomona Newyork, USA as ordained by HIS Holiness the 44th

Jeer Himself. The mahA samprOkshanam is set for July the 5 th and

there will be celebrtations from Jul 1 to Jul 5th. adiyEn and

scores of many bAgawathAs are going to be there during that time.

In the meantime we are extending all we can to help him raise some

resources. If you know anyone who can share some money for the

construction please let us know. You can contact Sri Sadagopan or

Sri Anbil Ramaswamy or Sri Venkat or adiyEn. To keep the tempo

and the momentum adiyEn will keep posting on this series in

addition to the thirup pAvai vyAkyAnams (thirup pAvai will

continue for several months/and a few years) untill the final

plans of Sri mahA samprOkshanam are rolled out in early April,1999.

 

 

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