Muktinath

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> Dear Devotees of the Lord,

 

I have some questions about Lord Muktinath (famous vigraha in North

Nepal near

the Gandaki River) who is one of the 106 earthly divya desams. It was

sung only

by Tirumangai Alwar in two pasurams as far i know. Could anybody out

there give

me the sloka reference of that two pasurams, including the

transliteration &

translation into english ?

And if somebody knows in which way trough the Himalaya mountains and

when

Tirumangai Alwar made his tour up to Muktinath ?

 

Also there a some contradicting storys regarding the source of the

Gandaki River,

from were the Salagram Silas appear.

One will say, the river comes from a lake near the tibetan border by the

name of

Damodar-kund north east of Muktinath (a 3 day trip per foot away).

Others will say the river appears from a crack of the Dongmar- mountain

north

west of Lo Mantang (what is much further north than the first

discription).

If somebody know some scripture reference about that story i would be

very happy.

 

Thanks a lot

and all the best

Your amaraprabhu Das

Namo Narayana!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Dear Sri Amaraprabhu Dasa :

 

If no one has responded to your queries sofar

On Thirumangai's Paasurams on the Dhivya dEsam of

SaaLigrAm , I will be happy to respond to them

and provide a summary of the meanings of the ten

Paasurams. The transliterated copy of the slOkams

are in Bhakthi archives. Two members of

the group have visited Saalagram recently .

One of them can help you regarding the travel details .

I am not familiar with the source of GaNtaki river.

 

There are ten verses (Paasurams ) that Thirumangai AzhwAr

blessed us with .They are part of Periya Thirumozhi : 1.5

Thirumangai was the last of the twelve AzhwArs and his time

is Ninth Century A.D. according to historians .

 

Best wishes,

V.Sadagopan

 

At 08:15 PM 5/28/00 +0200, you wrote:

>> Dear Devotees of the Lord,

>

>I have some questions about Lord Muktinath (famous vigraha in North

>Nepal near the Gandaki River) who is one of the 106 earthly

divya desams. It was sung only by Tirumangai Alwar in two pasurams

as far i know. Could anybody out there give me the sloka reference of

that two pasurams, including the transliteration & translation

into english ? And if somebody knows in which way trough

the Himalaya mountains and when Tirumangai Alwar made his tour

up to Muktinath ?

>

>Also there a some contradicting storys regarding the source of the

>Gandaki River,from were the Salagram Silas appear.

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Dear Sri Amaraprabhu Dasa :

 

After I wrote in response to your note,

I remembered the excellent translations of the

meanings of the ten Paasurams on SaaLagrAma Dhivya desam

done already by Sri Madhavakkannan Vasudevan of Singapore .

His moving transaltions are a part of the most welcome

Kaimkaryam that he is doing in translating Thirumangai's

Periya Thirumozhi and Swamy NammAzhwAr's ThiruvAimozhi

over the past few months .I recommend them most

heartily to you .You will be able to locate these

translations in the Bhakthi archives list .

>

>There are ten verses (Paasurams ) that Thirumangai AzhwAr

>blessed us with .They are part of Periya Thirumozhi : 1.5

>Thirumangai was the last of the twelve AzhwArs and his time

>is Ninth Century A.D. according to historians .

>

Best wishes,

V.Sadagopan