Thiruvara~ngatthu amudhanaar Thirunakshathram

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Sri:

 

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namah:

 

Panguni Hastham- Thirunakshathram of Thiruvarangatthu amudhanaar.

Members of this list are well aware of the greatness of Thiruvarangatthu

amudhanaar. He composed 108 pAsurams on Sri Ramanujar called "Ramanusa

nooRRandhaadhi". Each one of these 108 is S U P E R B. It is a pleasure

to read them and taste the emotional /AchArya bhakti of amudhanaar.

 

Sri Ramanuja shares with Namaazhvaar the honour of a prabhandham

dedicated to him among the Naalaayira Divya Prabhandham. (Yes. These 108

verses are included in 4000.) kaNNinuN siRuththaambu (11 pAsurams) by

Madhurakavi is entirely devoted to the glory of Nammaazhvaar and

Ramanusa nooRRandhaadhi, by Thiruvarangaththu Amudhanaar is devoted to

Sri Ramanuja. Both of these prabhandhams are in andhaadhi style (Why

don't we recite them on Ramanujar Thirunakshathram on April 21st?)

 

It is adiyEn's humble reverential submittal of these translations of

thaniyans (dedicatory verses) on amudhanaar to this esteemed group of

Sri vaishnavas, on his birthday.

 

1. munnai vinaiyagala moongiR kudiyamudhan*/

ponna~ng kazhaRkamalap pOdhiraNdum* - ennudaiya/

chennik kaNiyaagach chErththinEn* thenpulaththaarku/

ennuk kadavutaiyEn yaan?

 

For long time, (over the ages, for so many births), the sins and karmas

have accumulated and all of them have simply vanished due to my adorning

the Beautiful, endearing, Lotus flower like feet of Amudhanaar on my

head. Amudhanaar hails from the "moongil kudi". Hence, how will I ever

be answerable to yama and his men hereafter? (for my past sins/karmas;

they are all pOyE pOcchu; pOyindhE! Gone!)

 

2 nayantharu pErinbha mellaam pazudhenRu naNNinarpaal/

jayam tharu keerththi iraamaa nusamuni thaaLiNaimEl/

uyarndha kuNaththuth thiruvara~ng kaththamuthu Ongu manpaal/

iyambum kaliththuRai andhaadhi Otha isai nenjamE!

 

oh my mind! Pay attention to my advice and agree with me to recite the

Prabhandham of amudhanaar in "kalitthuRai andhaadhi". These songs do

only good to the reciters and are composed due to the mercy of the

graceful Thiruvarangatthu amudhanaar on YathirAjar with his great

AchArya bhakti towards AchAryar Ramanujamuni's Lotus Feet. Emperumaanar

Sri Ramanujacharya enables all (of us who surrender to his feet)

understand and realise ASSERTIVELY that the samsaara bhandham and

materialistic / sensual pleasures are only transitory, lowly, unworthy

and are even wrong.

 

3. chollin thokai koNd unadhatip pOthukkuth thoNdu cheyyum/

nallanpar yEththumun naamam ellaam enRan naavinuLLE/

allum pagalum amarumpadi nalgu aRu samayam/

vellum parama!* iraamaanusaa! ithu en viNNappamE.

 

Oh RamanujA! The One who won all the other (six) religions sects (with

your unambiguous, purely saasthric, most accurate logical arguments

interpretations with all sruthis /Vedic statements)! This is my request

to you. Please shower Your mercy on me and enable me to let all your

Divine names (that the Bhagawathas who are blessed to serve Your Lotus

Feet, sing pAsurams in praise of You with bhakti laden words and

meanings) at all times in the days and in the nights.

 

4. ini yen kuRai namakku? emperumaanaar thirunaamaththaal/

munithantha nooRRettuch chaaviththiri yennum nuNporuLai/

kanithantha chenchol kaliththuRai yandhaadhi paadith thandhaan/

punithan thiruvara~ngaththu amudhaagiya puNNiyanE.

 

Where is any grievance for us hereafter? Due to the greatest divine

names of Emperumaanar, in the from of 108 pAsurams, with are sweetest

bhakti laden words of tastiest fruit in andhaadhi style, composed this

greatest good work by the blessed Thiruvarangatthu amudhanaar, is there

any grievance for us hereafter?.

 

Due to KooratthAzhwAn kataaksham, Amudhanaar understood the Greatness

and glory of Bhagawadh Ramanuja and composed this Prabhandham on

Ramanuja, for the benefit of us. It is for us to learn and get to know

YathirAjar's greatness and his Divya kalyANa guNAs, amudhanaar has sung

these 108 pAsurams which is called "Raamaanusa nooRRandhaadhi".

 

Let us have a quick look at pAsuram no. 84 (all 108 is great! This one,

is my favourite).

 

kaNdukoNdEn em raamaanusan thannai* kaaNdalumE

thoNdukoNdEn avan thoNdar poRRaaLil* en thollai vennOy

viNdukoNdEn avan seer veLLavaariyai vaaymaduththu inRu

uNdukoNdEn* innamuRRana Odhil ulappillaiyE.

 

Now I have seen my Ramanuja; what a great sight it is! That makes me

desire and seek to serve the golden feet of Bhagawathas - his devotees.

And here, today I take just a sip from this ocean of auspicious

qualities and all my past karmaas are destroyed. Alas! There is no end

if I start to say more. (similar to ("aiyO! ivan azhagenna azhiyaa

azhagudaiyaan")

 

It is told that once during a sapthaavaraNam procession in the streets

of Srirangam, Azhagiya maNavaaLan (namperumAL) Sri RanganAthar had asked

the vAdhya gOsham (the Nadaswaran and Davil) to stop playing and

listened with great enjoyment the 108 pAsuram recitation of Ramanusa

nooRRandhaadhi. (I don't know if it is still continued )

 

Thiruvarangatthu amudhanaar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam

 

YathirAjar ThiruvadigalE SaraNam

 

Narayana Narayana

 

Narayana dAsan madhavakkannan

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Sri:

Ellarkum Namaskarams,

This is with reference to the excellent writing by Sri.Madhavakannan on

"Thiruvara~ngatthu amudhanaar Thirunakshathram".

 

Sri.Madhavakannan wrote:

"....It is told that once during a sapthaavaraNam procession in the streets

of Srirangam, Azhagiya maNavaaLan (namperumAL) Sri RanganAthar had asked

the vAdhya gOsham (the Nadaswaran and Davil) to stop playing and

listened with great enjoyment the 108 pAsuram recitation of Ramanusa

nooRRandhaadhi. (I don't know if it is still continued )"

 

Yes,the practice is continued even today.During Sapthaavaranam,vAdya gosham

is made only in the street corners, to alert the people in homes.(in the

four such corners of the prakaram).

One has to be very careful on this particular occasion ,otherwise there is

a very good chance of missing Perumal Sevai !!(due to the silence

maintained )

And ,this year during Panguni Thirunal(thats going on now) that

Sapthaavaranam would have got over yesterday late evening in Srirangam!

(pl. correct me if adiyen is wrong with the timings)

 

Sri Renganayaki samedha Sri Renganathan Thiruvadigale saranam.

adiyen,

Vijayanand Rajagopalan.