thoo nilA muRRam - part 9 - kOyil Ay koNdu

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thoo nilA muRRam - part 9 - kOyilAy koNdu

 

Dear bAgawathAs,

 

ArA amudhan ahzagA ? AdisEshan azhagA ? will be the dilemma

in one's mind when they visit this sannithi. Coming back to the

original pAsuram of Sri bothatthu AzhwAr in iraNdAm thiru anthAthi,

the words "kuda mookkil koyilAy koNdu" is very thought provoking.

"kudam" in tamil is a vessel or a pot. "mookku" in literal tamil

means nose. Herein, it is referring to thiru kudanthai. A detailed

thala purAnam that follows will present some details on this

"kArANap peyar". In tamil grammar "kAraNa peyar" means a name (of

this kshEthram) that has been coined due to a reason.

 

 

AzhwArs have delivered many pAsurams expressing their love

on many divya dEsams. For example Srirangam has been addressed by

all AzhwArs. And the name Srirangam is due to Lord who decided to

stay there. Even such srirangam is addressed as "aranga mA nagar

ezhunthu aruLAyE". While referring to other kshEthrams AzhwArs

address the name of the kshEthrams and the Lords as "kidanthAyE,

irunthAyE, amarnthAyE, kaN vaLarnthAyE etc. ie., Our AzhwArs always

address our Lord as one who is sitting here, who is sleeping here,

who is residing here, who is sitting here etc., when referring to

all divya dEsams. It is somewhat rare to see a reference such as

"kOyilAy koNdu". kOyil means temple and it often refers to

Srirangam among srivaishnavAs. However, on a second thought after

reading about this city of "kuda mookku", and in particular this

reference by our AzhwAr, one may conceive that "kOil" should been

referred to thiru kudanthai. Our AzhwAr delivers that, engAL

perumAL, imaiyOr thalaivan, descended to a city that is by itself

a "kOil" and such kOil is thiru kudanthai. In fact Sri boothathu

AzhwAr delivered that Our Lord assumed the entire city or the

sthAnam as HIS own temple (*). The temple city kumbakonam is the

holiest of all holy cities.

 

 

Another anubavam is that when our Lord Sri ArA Amudhan's

siRappu or speciality is conveyed in the previous lines, Sri

bothatthu AzhwAr simply spells out the name of this holy city and

adds that our Lord made it as HIS temple. He doesnot add any other

specialty to it. ie. AzhwAr simply adds a name of a city to a very

special perumAL Sri ArA amuthan. If someone's name is to be affixed

to such a special perumAL how special that someone's name must be ?

It is an indication by our AzhwAr that the very name of kuda mookku

itself is so special that it need nothing else to address it even

when it is combined with the most special Lord Sri ArA amuthan. ie.,

When one has to learn about "Kuda mookku" from purAnams or purAnic

days, this kshEthram stands by it s very name. This kshEthram is

known to 33 billion dEvAs and others merely by its name. The name

"kuda mookku" itself is very special as revealed in one of the

kshEthra purANams.

 

Sri kOmaLa vaLLi thAyAr samEtha Sri ArA amudhan thiruvadikaLE

saraNam

Sampath Rengarajan

(*) A reasoning will be made from purAnAs on this statement in a

later part.

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