nAcciyAr tirumozhi VII - karuppUram nARumO 6

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SrI ANDAL samEta SrI rangamannAr tiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

 

nAcciyAr tirumozhi VII - karuppUram nARumO

pASuram 7.6 (seventh tirumozhi - pAsuram 6 pOit-tIrtam ADAdE)

 

A. Translation from SrImAn SaDagOpan's tamizh treatise:

 

"People make long trips to holy tIrttams (like ga~ngA, kAvEri etc)

and do puNya snAnams hoping to be sanctified. Oh valampuri

Sa~nkE! You do not even have to move from your spot; you got

easily blessed with tasting the most holy adarAmr*tam (which is

holier than all the the puNya tIrttams) of kaNNapirAn, who felled

playfully the two marudam trees. There is no one in this world

equal to you, who are a great bhAgyasAli!"

 

pOit-tIrtam ADAdE ninRa puNar marudam

SAittu IrttAn kait talattE ERik kuDi koNDu

SEit tIrttamAi ninRa SenkaNmAl tannuDaiya

vAit tIrttam pAindu ADa vallAi valampuriyE!

 

B. Additional thoughts (from SrI PVP ):

 

pOit-tIrttam ADAdE: There are people in this world who will

travel hundreds of miles to take a dip in salty water (oceans),

while you stay put in one place and enjoy the parabhOgya

tIrtta snAnam.

 

ninRa puNar marudam SAittu IrttAn: The gandarvA-s named naLa and

kUbara were turned into twin maruda trees by the curse of sage

nArada. The aSuran who was ordered by kamsan to kill kaNNan was

waiting in the twin maruda trees for the right moment. kuTTi

kr*shNan, who was tied to the mortar by yaSOdai, pulled the mortar

and went between the twin trees, thus felling them (thereby

killing the aSuran also) and looked back at the noise of the

falling trees with great playfulness.

 

ERik kuDi koNDu: Because of kaNNan being born as a human

being in His incarnation, He was doing pirtr*-vAkya paripAlanam

as part of this form that He had assumed, and had to hide

His conch, discus, etc., and the Sa~nkam had to become

invisible (This occurred when vasudeva and dEvaki prayed to

mahAvishNu to conceal His nArAyaNa svarUpam with His four hands

from kamsan). SrI PVP's anubhavam is that it looks as though

PA~ncajanyan felt that it was because he was hidden out of sight

that kaNNan was subject to so many dangers from kamsan. Having

a strong determination not to leave Him any second from now on,

SrI pAncajanya AzhvAn occupied a place on His hand and decided

to stay there forever.

 

SEit tIrttamAi ninRa: The best, sweetest and holiest.

Se~ngaN-mAl is the best, sweetest and holiest, and it is true

of His vAi_tIrtam as well. His pAvanam or holiness is conveyed

in the following Sloka-s:

 

"pAvanas sarva lOkAnAm tvamEva raghunandana" - (rAmAyaNam uttara

kANDam 82-9) - raghunandana! You are the one who purifies

all the worlds!

 

"pavitrANam hi gOvinda: pavitram paramucyatE

puNyAnAmapi puNyoSou ma~ngaLAnAnca mangaLam" ( bhAratam -

vanaparva-tIrttayAtra 88-26) - gOvindan is considered to the

purest of all purities; He is the most puNyam of all puNyams;

He is the most austere of all austerities.

 

nammAzhvAr refers to this parama-pAvanatvam of bhagavAn through the

use of the word "tIrttan" in tiruvAimozhi ("tIrttan ulagaLanda

SevaDi" 2-8-6). Needless to say that His vAittIrttam is

the best tIrttam?

 

Se~nkaNmAl tannuDaiya: "Se~nKaN mAl" refers to bhagavAn's

beautiful lotus-flower-like beautiful red eyes - puNDarIkAkshan.

His two eyes look like two lotuses blossomed because of the sun.

 

vAit-tIrtham pAindu ADa vallAi - The experience of pA~ncajanyam

is like one who is taking a dip in the area of the ocean where

lots of pearls are abundant (SrI T.S. rAjagopAlan), or like one

who stands on the shores of the holy waters and takes a bath from

the shore.

 

valampuriyE: The reference here is again to the special nature

of the valampuri Sa~ngu. Not only is pA~ncajanyan's anubhavam

special, but his shape is also special.

 

sarvam SrIman nArAyaNAyEti samarpayAmi.

 

adiyEn,

Kalyani Krishnamachari