KULASEKHARA RAMAYANAM

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: Om SrI KrishNAya namah.

: dear BhAgavtas,

: namO namah.

: In KulaSEkhara rAmAyaNam, why the ALwAr repeatedly says

:"Tillainagar TirucchittirakUdam"?I understand that these two places are

:DDs.Many BhAgavatas have written earlier that vAlmIKi rAmAyaNam is the

:only prAmANika rAmAyaNam for us.then what about this "Kutti" rAmAyaNa?

SrI rAmachandra charaNau SaraNam prapadyE

: adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan

: V.Srimahavishnu

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Dear Sri Srimahavishnu :

 

Sri Kulasekarar's sampUrNa RaamAyaNam

is part of the Thillai ThirucchitthirakUtam

Paasurams . AzhwAr saw the Lord Govindharaajan

there as Sri Ramachandran resting with

His dear consort SitA Piraatti at the chitrakutam

as described by Aadhi Kavi ,Vaalmiki .

 

Thillai ThirucchitthirakUtam kshEthram is

reachable from Chidhambharam Railway

station.At one time , there was a jungle here

made up of ThilyA trees , which are abundant

in Sri Vaikuntam .Hence this kshEthram is

known as Thillai Vanam . The abundant presence

of " ThiyO VrukshA: " made one think of

the virgin forests of ChithrkUtam in the North ,

where Sri ramachandra and Sri SitA piraatti

had a most memorable , plesant stay during

their self-imposed exile from Ayodhyai .

 

You might also recall that KulasEkharar

was a great devotee of Srimadh RaamayaNam

and had pourANikars recite and intrepret

Srimadh RaamayaNam in his royal court

every day .

 

KulasekharA was thrilled with RaamAyaNam related

themes and hence he focussed on Sri Ramachandran

in number of his Thirumozhis :

 

1 .Singing Lullaby to the infant Raama in

PerumAL Thirumozhi : 8 saluting ThirukkaNNapuratthu

Emperumaan

 

2.DasarathA's sorrow over the thought of his

dear son, Raaghavan entering the forest to

fulfill the vow in PerumAL Thirumozhi: 9

 

3. SampUrNa RaamAyaNam to salute Thillainagar

ThiruchitthirakUtatthu EmperumAn as Sri Raamachandran

of Chithrakoot mountain of north .There Sri Raama was

very happy to reside with His dear Consort enjoying

the majestic bounties of nature .Incidents described

by Sri VaalmIki in every khANdam of his Srimadh RaamAyaNam

is described with great Bhakthi by KulasEkharar

( PerumAL Thirumozhi:10).

 

This is the last patthu of PerumAL Thirumozhi

of KulasEkarar. After this , he felt that there

is no need to say more and concluded his divya

prabhandham with the phala sruthi:

 

KozhiyarkkOn kudaikkulasEkaran soRR seytha

nalliyalin Tamizh maalai patthum vallAr

nalam thihazh NAARANAN adik keezh naNNUvArE

-- Periya Thirumozhi : 10.11

 

Here , he asures those who would study and

understand his ten paasurams on Thillai

ThirucchitthirakUtatthu Emperuman and reflect

on their meanings will find their secure

place at the lotus feet of Sriman NaarAyaNan

in Sri Vaikuntam . Parama PurushArtha siddhi

is indicated here for those , who study his

sampUrNa RaamAyana paasurams based on

Srimadh RaamAyaNam .

 

I wrote a 40 plus pages manuscript in Tamil

on this divya desam celebrated by KulasEkarar ,

Thirumangai and Sri Mutthuswami DhIkshithar

( 4 moving krithis on the PerumAL of

this divya desam ). Anyone , who wishes

to translate it into English is welcome to

contact me .

best wishes ,

V.Sadagopan

 

 

 

At 03:51 AM 1/1/96 +0530, you wrote:

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>: Om SrI KrishNAya namah.

>: dear BhAgavtas,

>: namO namah.

>: In KulaSEkhara rAmAyaNam, why the ALwAr repeatedly says

>:"Tillainagar TirucchittirakUdam"?I understand that these two places are

>:DDs.Many BhAgavatas have written earlier that vAlmIKi rAmAyaNam is the

>:only prAmANika rAmAyaNam for us.then what about this "Kutti" rAmAyaNa?

> SrI rAmachandra charaNau SaraNam prapadyE

>: adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan

>: V.Srimahavishnu

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