ThiruveLLakkuLa Thiruppathi: Part 1

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Dear BhakthAs :

 

One of the 108 divya desams in ChOLa dEsam

is known as ANNan Koil or ThiruveLLakkuLam .

The presiding Lord's name here is SrinivAsan and

the KshEthram is also known as Thenn Thiruppatthi

just as ThiruviNNagar is known as DakshiNa Thiruppathi.

The name of the Lord's consort is " PoovAr ThirumahaL "

or the Lady who sits on the beautiful lotus flower .

 

Kaliyan"s SaraNAgathi to MahA Lakshmi

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Thirumangai AzhwAr visualized the consort of

the Lord here on the Lord's chest and saluted Her

in the spirit of Sri Sooktha r*k and performed

saraNAgathi to the Lord through Her :

 

Padhma priyE Padmini Padma hasthE

PadmAlayE Padma daLAyadhAkshi

visva priyE VishNu manOnukulE

tvath paada padmam mayi sannidhathsva

 

(Extended Meaning ): Oh MahA Lakshmi , who is very

fond of the lotus flower! Oh supreme One holding that lotus

flower in Your hands ! Oh Mother seated on a golden

lotus ! Oh the most beautiful One with the eyes resembling

that of the enchanting petals of a tender lotus !

Oh parama KaaruNya mUrthy filled with dayA for

one and all ! Oh auspicious Lady , who is tuned closely

to the wishes of Your Lord ! Please place Your auspicious

lotus feet on my siras !

 

After performing SaraNAgathi to Her , Thirumangai

received Her anugraham and then approached the Lord

of this divya dEsam and addressed Him movingly as

"ANNA " and begged Him to remove all the obstacles

that obstructed him unitl then to seek and gain

the parama purushArtham of Moksham .

 

The special significance of this Divya dEsam

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Thirumangai mannan had a special attachment to

this divya dEsam . His wife Kumudhavalli NaacchiyAr

was "born" here; She was instrumental in Thirumangai

becoming a parama VaishNavan .In view of the vow

he had taken to perform tadhiyArAdahnam for

1,000 Sri VaishNavAs every day ( as his wedding vow )

for one year ,Kaliyan had to resort to day light robbery

to raise funds for sustaining this kaimkaryam dear

to his wife's heart .

 

On a river bed near here , Kaliyan stalked the Divya

Dampathis ( vEdu PaRi ), who came to redeem him

and tried to rob them of their divyAbharaNams .

Our Lord , who arrived there to test and then bless

Kaliyan was pleased with the intensity of

His bhakthan and initiated him personally into His mUla

manthram and thereby sent Kaliyan into raptures .

The most grateful Kaliyan eulogized the Lord

of Sri Devi presiding at this divya dEsam in rememberance

through ten magnificient paasurams to record

his gratitude over the Lord's dayA .

 

Location of this divya dEsam and the Lord's sEvai here

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This kshEthram is half mile from Thiru DevanAr thokai ,

seven mile south east of KaazhicchIrAma ViNNagaram and

seven miles due east of VaitthIsvaran Koil . It has one

of the most beautiful PushkaraNis. Once upon a time , the flood

waters (VeLLam ) subsided and left behind a body of water

that took the permanent form of a sacred pushkaraNi leading

to the name of Thiru VeLLakkuLam " to this divya dEsam.On

the banks of this pushkaraNi , the Lord of this divya desam

stands with the lotus lady on His Vaksha sthalam as SrinivAsan

( PoovAr ThirumahaL pulliya Maarbhan ).He stands under

the shade of TattvOdhaka VimAnam and blesses SvEtha Raajan ,

Sri Rudhran , Kaliyan and us .

 

The Echoes of Thirumalai and ThiruviNnagar Paasurams here

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The saraNAgathi vaakyams used by Kaliyan at

Thirumalai and ThiruviNNagar are echoed in

the ten paasurams of ThiruveLLakkuLam . Here are

three instances :

 

ThiruveLLakkuLam (1) and ThiruvEnkatam (2)

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(A)TiNNAr mathiL soozh ThiruveLLakkuLatthuL(*) ,

aNNA ,adiyEn idaraik kaLayAyE (1)

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(A)SeppAr tiNNvarai soozh ThiruvEnata Maamalai(*) ,

yenn appA vanthadainthEn adiyEani aatkoNdaruLE (2)

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(B)senthAmarai neer ThiruveLlakkulatthuL(*)

YenthAi , adiyEn idaraik kaLayAyE (1)

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(B)ThEnEy poompozhil soozh ThiruvEnkata maalai(*),

Yen aanAi vanthadainthEn adiyEnai aatkoNdaruLE (2)

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ThiruveLlakkuLam(1) and ThiruviNnagar paasurams (2)

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(A) sElAr vayal soozh ThiruveLlakkulatthuL(*)

MaalE, Yenn valvinai theertharuLAyE (1)

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(A) sollAi ThirumArvA unakkAhi ThoNDu patta

nallEnai , vinaikaL naliyAmai nampu NampI

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MallA KudamADi MadhusoothananE , ulahil

sella nallisayAi ThiruviNNagarAnE (2)

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The intense mood of the AzhwAr is very much

the same at the three divya dEsams presided over

by Lord SrinivAsan. Identical words flow out of

Kaliyan's lips at these three divya dEsams

having Lord SrinivAsan as their presiding deity.

 

Progression of the Pilgrimage of Kaliyan

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ThiruveLLakkuLam is one of the twelve ThirunAngUr

divya dEsams . Kaliyan salutes the Lords of these

twelve KshEthrams close to his birthplace in the following

sequence and performs mangaLAsAsanam for them in his

Periya Thirumozhi(PTM ) :

 

1.ThiruvAli-Thirunagari : PTM-3.5,3.6 and 3.7 patthus

 

2.ThirunAngUr MaNimADakkOil: PTM-3.8

 

3.Sri Vaikuntha ViNNagaram: PTM-3.9

 

4.Thiru ArimEya ViNNagaram: PTM-3.10

 

5.Thiru DEvanAr Thokai: PTM-4.1

 

6.Thiru VaNN puruDOtthamam: PTM-4.2

 

7.ThirnAngUr Semponn seykOil: PTM-4.3

 

8.ThirunAngUr ThiruttheRRiampalam: PTM-4.4

 

9.ThirumaNikkUtam: PTM-4.5

 

10.ThirukkAvaLampADi: PTM-4.6

 

11.THIRUVELLAKKULAM: PTM-4.7

 

12.ThiruppArthan PaLLi: PTM-4.7

 

ParakAlan starts his mangalAsAsanam at

ThiruvAli Thirunagari, which is very close

to his avathAra sthalam and concludes the salutations

at ThiruppArthan PaLLI .In this series of twelve

ThirunAngUr Thiruppathis , ThiruveLLakkuLam takes

the 11th place . The Lords of the divya desams

come together on the akshya thrithIyai day (?)

on Garuda Vaahanam and bless their dearest Bhakthan

in grateful appreciation .That Twelve Garuda sEvais

in one location is a blessed sight indeed to see .

 

We will study the ten paasurams of Kaliyan on

Lord SrinivAsan of ThiruveLLakkuLam in the next

posting.

 

Kaliyan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam,

Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan