Alazhia Manavala Mamunighal - Part 5

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Sri Mathe Ramanujaya Namah

Sri Mathe BAlaDhanvhi Maha Guruvae Namah

 

 

Dear devotees

 

Please read the corrected thaniyan in the previous article as

>>"Sri Sailesa daya phatram , dheebhaktyAdi guNaarNavam

>>Yathindrapravanam vandhe ramyajaa maataram munim"

 

and not as sent earlier. Sorry for the typing mistakes.

 

Alazhia Manavala Mamunighal - Part 5

(article by Sri V.V.Ramanujam, published in Sri Panchajanya

magazine)

 

The congregrational chant of many religious texts as well as the

study, is also begun with this invocatory verse at the head.

Pujas end with the supplication :-

 

"Poyyilada Manavalamamuni pundi vazhi pugazh vazhi vazhiye"

and

"Manavalamamuniyae innumoru nootrandirum"

 

(Glory to the faultless intellect of Sri Manavala Mamuni

and

Oh! Sri Manavalamamuni! Let your glory shine for yet another

century)

 

Expounding the Divyaprabandham texts in accordance with the views

of the poorvacharyas was the field in which the Jeeyar excelled.

He wrote commentaries on

(i) the first four hundered and ten verses of Perialwar

Thirmozhi - since the early commentary by Periavachan Pillai had

been lost.

(ii) the Ramanuja Nootrandadi of Amudanar

(iii) three of the Rahasya texts of Lokacharya referred to

earlier

(iv) the AcharyaHridayam

 

The last is the work of AlagiaManavala Perumal Nayanar, the

younger brother of Sri Lokacharya and sets forth the inner

meaning of the teachings of Satagopa and other Alwars, soaked as

they are in their experiences with the Divine. But for these

lucid commentaries it would be highly impossible to understand

the with the most valuable texts, particularly those written as

terse aphorisms.

 

Varavaramuni composed three Tamil poems

 

(i) Upadesa Rathna Malai, a necklace of gems of the purest ray

serene dealing with the essential knowledge for Vaishnavas.

 

(ii) Thiruvaimoozhi Nootrandadi - of a hundered verses each

conveying the central idea of one decad of the one hundered

decads making the original Sahasrageeth text

 

(iii) Arthiprabanda - a poem addressed to Ramanuja, poignantly

imploring the master to end the worldly existence of the

supplicant and transport him to the Divine abode of the Lord as

His servant.