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Dear members

 

I recently came across few slokas from Sri Varavaramuni shataka. I do

not have a complete text of this work. Can some one provide additional

information as to who composed this slokas, when and where. I would also

appreciate if some one can fax me a copy to the following number, if

possible,

 

thanks

 

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hi venkatEsh,

vara vara munisathakam was composed by erumbiyappa -

one of the shishyAs of maNavALa mAmunigaL.

adiyEn has a copy. If you like, adiyEn

can fax it to you.

 

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,

Varadhan

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>"Thirumalai Anandanpillai" <tananda

>Re: question

>Fri, 29 Oct 1999 13:21:53 -0600

 

Dear BhakthAs :

 

It will be my pleasure to add a few words about

the author Of Vara Vara Muni sathakam that

Sri Varadhan referred to in his rsponse

to Sri VenaktEsh's question .

 

It was the time ,when Sri MaNavALa Maamunigal(MM)

was at Srirangam . There was a great Sri VaishNavite

family at an agrahAram called YeRumpi near

thirukkatikai ( ShOLingar or Chozha Simha Puram ),

one of the celebrated dhivya Desams among the 108

Dhivya desams .A MahA VidvAn of the name DEvarAjAcchAr

was residing at YeRmbi agrahAram . He was related to

PrathivAdhi Bhayankaram ANNan , who was at Srirangam

serving his AchAryan , Sri MM .DEvarAjAchAr visited

ANNan at Srirangam and attended the KaalakshEPa

GhOshti of Sri MM. Sri DevarAjAcchAr enjoyed immensely

the grat pravachana skills of Sri MM . Since he was not

a disciple of Sri MM , Sri DevarAjAcchAr did not partake

of the Theertha PrasAdhams at the end of the KaalakshEpam

and returned back to YeRumpi at the end of his stay with his

relative at Srirangam .

 

Next day at his home , he started his ThiruvArAdhanam for

th Lord and tried to open the doors of his Koil AzhwAr

( the house altar , where the AarAdhana moorthy is

housed ). Lo and behold , the doors would not open .

Whatever effort he took to open the doors , they stayed

shut. Swamy recognized that he must have committed a

major aopachAram for this treatment by the Lord to

ignore him and not to accept the daily AarAdhanam

from his hands . He was heart broken and in his

dream at night , Lord Raamachandra, his AarAdhan moorthy

appeared and told him that he had insulted Sri MM dear

to Him by returning from Srirangam without taking Theetha at

PrasAdhams from Sri MM . Lord Ramachandra told DevarAjar

that it was AdhisEshA that has incarnated

as Sri MM and commnaded DevarAjA to seek him(MM)

as his ( DevarajA's ) achaaryan and thus purify

himself from the major apachAram committed

at Srirangam .The Lord told until he completed that task,

He will continue to reject AarAdhanam from DeavarAjar.

 

DevarAjar rushed next morning to Srirangam and fell

like a fallen tree at the sacred feet of Sri MM and

begged the AchAryan to accept him as his sishyan .

The most merciful MM accepted DevarAjar and gave

him the nae of YeRumpi appA , who became one of the

Ashta Dhig Gajams (8 prominent sishyAs ) of Sri MM .

 

YeRumpi appA had parama bhkthi for his AchAryan

and composed Kaavyams, Naatakams and Champu SthOthrams

on Sri MM . Vara Vara Muni Sathakam is part of these

literary samarpaNams of YeRumpi appA . After

taking refuge at the sacred feet of Sri MM ,

YeRumpi appA replaced his family AarAdhana dhiavam,

Sri Raamachandran at his koil aazhwAr with the archai of

Sri MM and conducted his daily AarAdhanams to Sri MM .

Such is the AchArya Bhakthi of YeRumpi appA !

 

Namo NaarAyaNA ,

V.Sadagopan

 

 

>hi venkatEsh,

>vara vara munisathakam was composed by erumbiyappa -

>one of the shishyAs of maNavALa mAmunigaL.

>adiyEn has a copy. If you like, adiyEn

>can fax it to you.

>

>adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,

>Varadhan

>

>