nAcciyAr tirumozhi VI - vAraNam Ayiram 6

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SrI:

SrI ANDAL samEta SrI rangamannAr tiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

 

nAcciyAr tirumozhi VI - vAraNam Ayiram

pASuram 6.6 (sixth tirumozhi - pAsuram 6 mattaLam koTTa)

 

A. Translation from SrImAn SaDagOpan's tamizh treatise:

 

"MangaLa vAdyams were being played; conches were being blown;

under the canopy that was decorated with low-lying pearl strands,

madhuSudanan took my right hand into His and did pANigrahaNam; Oh

dear sakhi! I saw this in my dream next."

 

mattaLam koTTa variSa~ngam ninRUda

muttuDait tAmam nirai tAzhnda pandal kIzh

maittunan nambi madhusUdan vandu ennaik

kaittalam paRRak kanAk kaNDEn tozhi! nAn.

 

SrI Sadagopan elaborately describes this pANIgrahaNam scene

in his write-up of the vedic wedding between ANDAL and SrI

ranganAthar. Please visit the following locations:

 

<http://www2.be.com/~mani/bhakti/archives/apr98/0063.html>

<http://www2.be.com/~mani/bhakti/archives/apr98/0083.html>

<http://www2.be.com/~mani/bhakti/archives/apr98/0088.html>

 

B. Some additional thoughts (from SrI PVP & SrI PBA):

 

mattaLam koTTa variSangam ninRu Uda: SrI PVP raises the

rhetorical question: "why didn't ANDAL say that He did pANigraham

to the accompaniment of vedic chantings, and instead says that

maTTaLam and conch are being played? This sounds like a wedding

where there are no veda mantra-s". SrI PVP's anubhavam is that

may be kaNNan is marrying godai even before before He learned

vEdam from SAntIpini mahA r*shi. KaNNan lived in tiruvAyppADi

for a while before going to SAntIpini to do gurukula vAsam and

learn vEda-s. Thus it makes perfect sense that ANDAL who imagines

herself as an AyarpADi girl, sees kaNNan marrying here before He

does gurukulam and learns veda etc.

 

maittunan nambi: (aunt's son); just as nappinai is related to

kaNNan (nappinai is said to be the daughter of yasodai's brother),

ANDAL wishes to think of herself as an AyarpADi girl who is

related to Him.

 

madhuSudan: He destroyed the demon, madhu (with his associate

kaitabha), who took something that belonged to Him (the vedas).

SrI PVP's anubhavam is that ANDAL chooses this name here to suggest

that just like that, if anyone else claims any relationship with

godai or in any other way lays claim for her, He will destroy him.

 

vandu ennaik kaittalam paRRak: she is the daughter of

peiryAzhwAr, whose thought is: "I am His property; so, it is only

proper that He comes to get me"; so, she says: "He came and took my

hand".

 

kaittalam paRRa: A reference similar to the above is found in

SrImad rAmAyaNam - (yuddha kANDam 119-16). sitApirATTi tells

hanumAN "na pramANIkr*ta: pANi: bAlyE bAlEna pIDita:"

- Did He forget that He held my hand when He was only 12 years

old?" pIditah here means that He "took my hand and held it

tightly". SrI embAr was asked by some as to why the word

"pIDita:" was used instead of an alternate word such as

"pANigrahanam"; He replied: "With the tight holding of the

hand, He is showing her that she absolutely belong only to Him.

This is conveyed by nammAzhvAr - 'ankaNNan uNDa en AruyirkkOdidu'

(tiruvAimozhi 9-6-6) - When He owns something, He absolutely owns it,

and what is left is nothing."

 

SrI PVP reminds us here of the much enjoyable slokam from SrImad

rAmAyaNam bAla kANDam 73-26: "iyam sItA mama sutA sahadharma carI

tava, pratIcca cainAm badram tE pANIm gr*hNIshva pANinA" - this sItA

is my daughter; she will be your sahadharmacAriNi; hold her

hand with your hand".

 

sarvam SrIman nArAyaNAyEti samarpayAmi.

 

adiyEn,

Kalyani Krishnamachari