MANAVAALA MAAMUNIGAL

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SrI ranganAtha charaNau SaraNam prapadyE.

 

MaNavALa mAmunigaL TiruvadigaLE SaraNam.

 

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 B.Narasimhan wrote:

>

> Many celebrated Acharyas of the day, descendents of the original

> seventy four apostles appointed by Ramanuja for the propagation

> of Vaishnavism became disciples of VaraVaramuni. One of the

> earliest was Vaanamamalai Ramanuja Jeeyar. Amoung others mention

> should be made of Kanthadai Annan and his group - descendants of

> Dasarathi(Mudhaliandan - a nephew of Ramanujar), and Prathivathi

> Bhayankaram Anna, a scion of the Mudumbai family to which Sri

> Lokacharya himself belonged. Another important disciple was

> Erumbi Appa.

Dear BhAgavatas,

namO namah.

Thanks to SrI Narasimhan for his series of excellent postings

on SrI MaNavALa MAmunigaL.

SrI JIyar's eight principle disciples were known as "ashta

diggaja"s.

 

vAnAdri yOgivara VEnkata yOgivarya

SrI bhattanAtha muni vAdi bhayankarAryAh

rAmAnujArya varadArya natArtihAri

SrI dEvarAja guravOshtadiSAgajAstE

THis SlOkam gives an account of the eight chief disciples of SrI

mahAmunigaL, punaravatArarUpI of BhagavadrAmAnujar.

They are : 1. vAnamAmalai jIyar 2.TiruvEngada rAmAnuja JIyar

3.paravastu bhattar pirAn JIyar 4.P B aNNan

5.appiLLai 6.kOil kandAdai aNNan 7.kidAmbi appuLLAn

8.erumbiappA.

 

SrI JIyar had served as JIyar of Tirupati mutt for quite some time and he

later entrusted this kainkaryam to "KELvi appan" TiruvEngada JIyar.

(From "Tirumalai ozhugu", translated into Telugu as "Tirumala

samayAchAramulu" by Sri N C V Narasimhacharyulu and Sri T A

Krishnamacharyulu)

 

SrI maNavALa mAmunigaL's SrI rAma mangaLASAsanam is a lovely stOtram on

our most loving Chakravarti SrI kumAran and is as beautiful and powerful

as vAlmIki rAmAyaNam and his disciple SrI P B aNNan's mangaLASAsanam to

Lord arangan standing majestically(in Tirumangaimannan's words as

translated by SrImAn Madhavakkannan!) on TiruvEnkatam.

 

SrI JIyar's lips were always seen chanting dvayam

restlessly(mantraratnAnusandhAna santata sphuritAdharam- erumbiappA's

"pUrva dinacharyA" of SrI MaNavALa mAmunigaL).

 

SrI AndAL ranganAyaI samEta azhagiya maNavALan TiruvadigaLE SaraNam

dAsan

V.Srimahavishnu