thennAchArya parampara

[Guest guest]

srImathE saTakOpAya namah

srImathE rAmAnujAya nahah

srImathE ananthArya mahAguravE namah

srIman vara vara munayE namah

 

dear bhAgavathAs,

 

adiyEn would like to add to what srI. sadagOpan svAmi and srI. maNi

wrote on the thennAchArya parampara -

 

There are numerous maTams that are part of the thennAchArya parapmara,

the main ones being

1. vAnamAmalai jIyar maTam

2. thirupathi chinna jIyar/periya jIyar maTams

3. srIragam srIranga nAraNa jIyar maTam

4. srIperumbUdUr ethirAja jIyar maTam

5. srIperumbUdUr embAr jIyar maTam

6. kAnchIpuram azhagiya maNavALa jIyar maTam

7. AzhvAr thirunagari emperumAnAr jIyar maTam

8. thirukkuRungudi jIyar svAmi maTam

9. thirukkOvilUr emperumAnAr jIyar maTam

10. thirunArAyaNapuram yadgiri yatirAja jIyar maTam

11. srI. tridaNdi china jIyar svAmi maTam

 

{One key note about thennAchArya maTams - Most of the thennAchArya

maTams were established by either emperumAnAr or svAmi maNavALa

mamunigaL -

and the main role of the jIyars were defined to be kainkaryam and

paripAlanam of the temples situated in the divya dEsams where the maTam

is present - vAnamAmalai maTam is a very special maTam - That maTam's

first

jIyar svAmi - ponadikkAL jIyar svAmi was a direct disciple of svAmi

maNavALa mAmuni. This maTam, in addition to performing paripAlanam of

the vAnamAmalai temple, also has the mantle of darsaNa pravarthakar

passed on by svAmi maNavALa mAmuni to ponnadikkAl jIyar svAmi}

 

 

In addition to the maTams, there are numerous AchArya paramparAs that

trace their lineage back to one of the 74 simhAsanAdhipathis - Some main

thirumALigais (i.e. the ones with most following) are

 

1. svAmi mudaliyANdAn thirumALigai

2. kOvil kandAdai aNNan thirumALigai

3. pratiAdi bayankaram svAmi thirumALigai

4. bhattar thirumALigai (parAsara bhattar lineage)

 

These thirumALigais can be more than one in number - i.e. different

branches

of the same family could have settled in different divya dEsams - a

prominent

example is the prativAdi bayankaram thirumALigai - there is a branch

in kAnchipuram (that had great stalwarts in the past 100 years - gAdi

anantAchAr svAmi and aNNangarAchAriar svAmi) and there are many branches

in the thirunAngUr divya dEsams -

 

adiyEn requests more knowledgeable bhagavathAs to add to the above

list.

 

Then there are AchArya purusha paramparais - These are families that

again

trace their lineage to one of the 74 simhAsanAdhipathis, but

traditinally,

these families generally (there are a few exceptions)

did not do panca samskArams to people outside the

extended family (because emperumAnAr had specified certain

simhAsanAdhipathis

to do that kainkaryam, the other families had other kainkaryams assigned

to

them by emperumAnAr) - adiyEn belongs to this kind of an AchArya

parampara - adiyEn is very fortunate to be born in a AchArya purusha

family

that traces its lineage to svAmi anantAzhvAn - {Swayam AchAryA family,

the term

that is generally used is a synonym of AchArya purusha family} -

the thirumALigais also are called AchArya purusha families -

 

 

The thennAchArya lineage from svAmi emperumAnAr and later is as follows

-

 

1. svAmi emperumAnAr

2. svAmi embAr

3. svAmi parAsara bhattar

4. svAmi nanjIyar

5. svAmi nampiLLai

6. svAmi vadakkuth thiruvIdhip piLLai

7. svAmi piLLai lOkAchAriAr

8. svAmi thiruvAymozhip piLLai

9. svAmi maNavALa mAmuni

 

then vAnamAmalai maTam continues -

 

svAmi periyavAchchAn piLLai was the approximately the same time period

as svAmi vadakkuth thiruvIdhip piLLai - svAmi azhagiya maNavALap perumAL

nAyanAr was the brother of svAmi piLLai lOkAchAriAr - both of them were

sons to svAmi vadakkuth thiruvIdhip piLLai.

 

[ the ahObila maTam nitya guruparamparA anusandhAnam has till svAmi

vadakkuth thiruvIdhip piLLai in it -

i.e svAmi embAr- svAmi parAsara bhattar - svAmi nanjIyar -

svAmi nampiLLai and svAmi vadakkuth thiruveedhippiLLai.

According to periya thirumudi adaivu, the samAsrayaNa parampara for

svAmi adivaN saTakOpa jIyar goes like this - svAmi adivaN saTakOpa

jIyar - svAmi garudAchAriAr - svAmi iLampiLisaip piLLai - svAmi

vangIpuraththu Achchi -(??)-..svAmi vadakkuth thiruvIdhip piLLai - a

diyEn could not trace back from svAmi vangIpuraththu Achchi - can

knowledgeable members please be kind enough to clarify?]

 

AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan,

thirumalai anandAnpiLLai varadhan