Chiththiraiyil Chiththirai-madhurakavigaL and ananthaazhvaar

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srimathE raamaanujaaya nama:

madhurakavi aazhvaar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

srimath ananthaarya mahaaguravE nama:

 

Respected Bhakti-list scholars,

 

Today is a great day for all of us- today is the Chithirai of the

Chiththirai month-thirunakshaththiram of two great personalities

in the Vaishnavite world who share lot of common things between

them-madhurakavi Azhvaar and the madhurakavi dhaasan thirumalai

ananthaazhvaar. manavala maamunigaL adores madhurakavigaL in two

great stanzas in his upadhEsa raththinamaalai as

 

Eraar madhurakavi ivvulagil vanthudhiththa

seeraarum chiththiraiyil chithirainNaaL paarulagil

maRRuLLavaazhvaargaL vanthudhiththa nNaaLgaLilum

uRRathamakkenRu nNenchEyOr

 

vaaiththa thirumanthiraththin maththima maampathampOl

seerththa madhurakavi seykalaiyai aarththapukazh

aariyargaL thaangaL aruLichcheyal nNaduvE

sErviththaar thaaRpariam thErnthu

 

Let's all recite these stanzas and with kaNNinun siRuththaampu

and sing the glory of madhurakavi aazhvar.

 

Today is also the thirunakshaththiram of thirumalai ananthazhvaar

( ananthaaNpillai) who like madhurakavigaL demonstrated the

greatness of acharya bhakti and kainkaryupaayam to all of us.

madhurakavigaL's thought was always "thEvumaRRaRiyEn

kurugoornNambi". Similarly ananthaazhvar also had emperumaanaar

in his thought and action and as per emperumaanaar's niyamanam

spent his lifetime in thirumalai performing pushpa kainkaryam to

thiruvEnkatamudaiyaan. His vaibhavam is an illustration of

humility, devotion and services. adiyEn thought on this

"ponnaaL", it would be appropriate to launch a home page for the

great acharyan ananthaazhvar and through the page reach out to

many. Ii is our humble effort, with whatever little material I

had, I with my wife Sudha Vijayaraghavan developed a home page

for him. We will be blessed if you all can visit the home page at

 

http://ananthazhvan.freeservers.com

 

and offer your comments to us. This would help us in making it

more useful. In its humble form, the home page basically has few

articles of adyEn's father T.A.Srinivasan and few very old

photographs which I had with me. There may be ( well, there are )

few spelling mistakes in the articles which I would certainly

correct them.

 

I also request that if any of you have nice photos of

ananthazhvaar or articles or information, please send them to us

to make the home page more meaningful.

 

I appeal to all the list members that " intha homepage-i

kataakshiththaruLa vENdum enRu".

 

vachaka dhOsha: kshanthavya:

 

adiyEn

madhurakavai dhaasan

 

T.A.S.Vijayaraghavan

Professor

Information Systems & Operations Management Area

XLRI, Jamshedpur

Jamshedpur 831 001

e-mail: tasviji