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Dear friends,

 

These days although adiyen avoids reflecting upon the

"tiruppAvai" on the bhakti-list, adiyen can't help

continuing to do so silently within the safe confines

of his heart and the outer limit of his living-room.

 

Out of one such silent musing-session, adiyen comes up

with a small question. Hopefully, scholars on the

list, and those steeped in the "vyAkhyAna-grantha-s",

might perhaps be able to clarify and educate adiyen

about it.

 

adiyen notices that in the 'tiruppAvai' some of the

things which 'pirAtti' says in an earlier 'pAsuram'

she says it differently in a later 'pAsuram'.

Sometimes what is said in a later 'pasuram' appears

almost as a retraction of what was hinted in an

earlier 'pasuram'.

 

Pundits and "achAryA-s", however, interpret the

message and content of latter 'pasurams' as overriding

those of earlier ones.

 

adiyen wonders if the rule of interpretation being

followed here is the same as what in the

"meemAmsa-sAstra" is known as the rule of

"apacchEda-nyAya" according to which, if and when

there is a variance between two different portions of

a scriptural text, that which is the latter would

prevail over the former. In very technical terms, they

say that which is "para" (latter) is always more

powerful than that which is "purva" (the former).

 

Applying the above rule of interpretation, may we

perhaps say that messages of truth we glean out of the

final 2 or 3 'pasurams', will simply override or

nullify related ones of all previous 'pAsuram-s'?

 

Please comment.

Thanks,

dAsan,

Sampathkumaran

 

 

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