Thiru AadippUram : Parama MangaLa Dinam : PART 1

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Friday , August 13,1999

 

Dear BhakthAs :

 

Today is Pramathi Aadi 28th day ; Sukla Paksha

DhvithIyai , Poora nakshthram, Siddha Yogam preside .

We will start with our salutation to our

dear Mother presiding over Her RaajadhAni

at SheNbhagAraNya KshEthram (Sri Villiputthur):

 

Srimathyai VishNuchitthArya

ManOnandhana hEthavE

Nandha nandhana Sundaryai

GodhAyai NITHYA MANGALAM

 

Our ThAyAr would be uncomfortable unles we

offer our slautations to Her Lord , "Vada Perum-

Koil UdayAn " for whom She adorned the Flower

galands and then sent them to Him .Let us hence offer

our slautations to Him on this day ,who is

the reason behind Her name , "Soodik Koduttha NaacchiyAr":

 

Sri BhattanAtha SUrIndhra

MaanasAmbhOja vaasinE

Srimath VaDa MahAdhAma

SwaminE NITHYA MANGALAM

 

Prior to procceding with the other parts of

the posting , let us salute Sri Andal"s dear

father , who brought her up with great love

and gave her hand in marriage to Sri RangamannAr :

 

Sri Dhanvi NagarAdhIsa

MangaLAsAsinO anisam

NirNItha Para tattvAya

VISHNUCHITTHAAYA MANGALAM

 

Approximately 700 years ago , Swami Desikan

arrived at Sri VilliputthUr on a pradhOsham day and

performed His MangaLAsAsanam for Sri Godhai through his

GodhA sthuthi. We will salute later Sri Godhai

in the words of Swami Desikan himself (Part 2).

Prior to that, adiyEn will attempt to summarize

some source information of value for Andal BhakthALs.

 

Please remember that according to our AchAryAs,

Andal is PrAdhanyam (most important)

in Archai ,Sri Devi is PrAdhAnyam

in Parama Padham , BhU Devi is PrAdhAnyam in

VarAhAvathAram and Nappinnai is PrAdhAnyam in

KrishNAvathAram .We will be focusing on AndaL ,

whose other names are Bhumi Devi, Vasumathi,

KshamA , Sarvam SahA to list a few .

 

SOURCE INFORMATION ON ANDAL/BHU DEVI

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Sriman Venkat Iyengar of Kharagpur and Sriman MadhavakkaNNan

of Singapore have already offered their moving slautations to

our ThAyAr on Her Thirunakshathram . Here are some things

we can do on this auspicious day :

 

(1)On this day , we should recite Swami Desikan's

GodhA Sthuthi once .

 

(2)We should look at the most beautiful

pictures of Andal, Sri RangamannAr ,Vatapathra Saayee ,

Sri Villiputthur Divya desam at the Srivilliputthur

Home pages assembled with such love and adoration

by a native of Srivilliputthur ,(viz)., Setaloor

SendalangAra Daasan Venkat S.Iyengar . The URL for

your browsing pleasure is:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/7673

 

This is an amazing compendium on the Divya Desam

of Sri Villiputthur and its Vaibhavam .The Chennai

GodhA priyA committe has been offering many AabharaNa

Kaimkaryams to Godhai and Sri RangamannAr over

the years and you will have the darsanam of

some of the AabharaNams there on our Thiru ThAyAr.

 

(3)The third source Information of is the Sri Vaishnava

home pages maintained with great care by Sriman Mani-

VaradarAjan :: http://www.ramanuja.org

Here, please look under the "What is New " section

under the subtitle AzhwArs and pick the hyperlink

on Andal.A wonderful summary of Her life and Her Sri Sookthis

are covered along with lovely images of Her Archai in

the company of Her Lord .

 

(4)The fourth source of information on Andal is that

assembled for the 1996 Marghazhi ThiruppAvai celebrations

by adiyEn under the title of " Contributed articles

on Andal (http://www.best.com/~mani/new/tp96/pavai96.html/

The greatness of Andal , the Vedic doctrines and

their links to Her Sri Sookthis are covered there .

 

(5)The fifth source of information for Andal BhakthAs

is the ongoing series of wonderful writings on

NaacchiyAr Thirumozhi by Srimathi KalyANi Krishnamachari

of Illinois. Sri Mani Varadarajan has created a special

section in the Sri Vaishnava pages . The most recent postings

are in the Bhakthi archives. Srimathi Krishnamachari is

at the 9th Patthu dealing with Sri Sundararaajan of

ThirumAlirumchOlai. Please read particularly the AndaL's

VaaraNamAyiram Paasuram section , where She describes with great

joy to Her friends the dream in which she married Her Lord.

 

(6)The Sixth source of information on AndAL ( Incarnation of

Bhumi Devi ) is the home page for Sri Oppiliappan put

together by Sriman ShrEyas Saarangan with the capable

assistance of Sri S.Rengarajan :http://www.temple.net/oppili

Here the AndaL of Oppiliappan Koil and Sri TannoppArillappan

offer us their darsanams with divyAbharaNams like RathnAngi,

Mutthangi, MaaNickka KoNdai et al.

 

SrimathE GodhAyai NamO Nama:

Daasan , Oppilaippan Sannadhi V.Sadagopan