An Update on Sri VaishNava Kaimkaryams

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SrimathE RaamAnujAya nama:

 

Dear BhakthAs :

 

This is the year of Vikrama in the sixty year

calendar cycle of Years (samvathsarams ). Vikrama

is the short word for Thrivikraman , whose glories

Andal celebrated ( Ongi UlahaLantha Utthaman pEr Paadi)

in the third paasuram of ThiruppAvai.

 

Many kaimkaryams have been initiated by our

Sri VaishNava community in this auspicious year.

Many started in previous years are reaching

stages of SamarpaNam at the holy feet of our revered

AchAryAs and the SaraNya Dampahtis .

 

It has been adiyEn's privelege and pleasure

to work with many BhAgavathAs in the spirit of

"Koodi Irunthu kuLirnthElOrempAvAi " in some of

these projects. AdiyEn thanks whole heartedly

the support and encouragement given by the BhaagavathAs .

 

AdiyEn would like to take this opportunity to update

You about the status of the different kaimkaryams

and invoke the prayer of our ThAyAr , ANDAL for this

community to be blessed with additional Kaimkarya-

prApthi to Them and our revered AchAryAs :

 

" YeRRaikum yEzhEzh piRavikkum, unRannOdu

uRROmEyAvOm UnakkE NaamAtcchiyvOm,

MaRRai nam kAmangaL mARRElOrempAvai "

 

May We all be blessed during this Sri VaishNava

NavarAthri season and on this Svaathi Nakshathram

day dear to Sri Lakshmi Narasimhan to follow the path

shown by our poorvAchAryAs !

 

Here is a brief list of kaimakryams & their status:

 

1. ThiruppAvai Monograph release :

 

Sri U.Ve. Vaishnava Simham PerukkArANai

MaadabhUshi ChakravarthyAcchAr Swamy's

scholarly monograph is being released next week

with the financial support of twenty plus

BhagavathAs from USA , India and Middle east.

 

The date has now been set for the function at Chennai .

The date is October 8 , which is a very sacred day

in our calendar .This is the rare day , when

EkAdasi, SravaNam ,Vijaya Dasami and the avathAra

Dinam of NigamAntha MahA Desikan of Thuppul and

ThiruvEnkatamudayAN come together on a PurattAsi

Saturday .

 

The time is 2.30 PM ; The place for celebration

for the release of this 700 plus page monograph

on the 30 paasurams of GodhA PirAtti is Desika

Bhavanam of Mylapore , Chennai (27 VenkatEsa AgrahAram ,

Mylapore ).

 

Great scholars of our SampradhAyam have been invited

to bless this Kaimkaryam . It is adiyEn's bhAgyam

to invite you and your family to attend this important

event .Videos and photos are being commissioned.

 

Sri PerukkAraNai Swamy has blessed adiyEn to

translate his Tamil Monograph on ThiruppAvai

into English for the benefit of BhakthAs ,

who may not be able to read Tamil . It is

a parama bhAgyam that adiyEn will place

the highest priority.

 

2. Udayavar Kaimkaryams :

 

There have been three Kaimkaryams:

 

(A) The Navarathna SatAri (Mudali Andan )

for AchArya RaamAnujA at ThirunArAyaNa Puram

(tamar Uhantha ThirumEni) has been presented

during February of this year.

 

(B)The two silver vattils for the nithyArAdhanam of

ThirunArAyaNan have been presented to celebrate

the links of AchArya RaamAnujA , Sri Adhi VaNN

SatakOpa Jeeyar of MelkOte and many poorvAchAryAs

to this important abhimAna Sthalam .This samarpaNam

took place son after SelvappiLLai's Vairamudi

uthsavam this year.

 

© The thridhaNdam for the Moolavar ( ThAmm

Uhandha ThirumEni) at SriperumbhUthUr is awaiting

samarpaNam by HH Srimath Azhagiya Singar soon

after His return from the sancharam to Delhi ,

BadrIkAsramam . Srimath Azhagiya Singar has graciously

consented to present the Silver ThridhNDam covered

fully with 10 soverigns of Gold leaves .The original

intent was to gold plate the Silver ThridhaNDam

and present it . Srimath Azhagiya Singar has

suggested full coverage with gold leaves

to assure that this AabharaNam decorating

the hand of Udayavar is protected from the stresses

of daily aarAdhanam and Thirumanjanam . Few BhAgavathAs

have supported this and the rathna SatAri kaimkaryam

before. Those who are interested to participate

in the final stage of the ThridhaNdam kaimkaryam

are requested to contact adiyEn .

 

3. Swamy Desikan's Sri Sookthis:

 

(A).The postings on GodhA Sthuthi

has been completed and archived in

the home pages with the URL:

 

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/7673/azhwars/andpas.html

 

Sri Venkat Iyengar of Sri VillipputthUr has made

this possible as a part of his Kaimkaryam

to Andal . Srimathi KalyANi KrishNamAcchAri's

postings (upto the tenth decad ) of NaachiyAr

Thirumozhi and the audio renderings of

ThiruppAvai by Smt.Nithyashree and many other

treasures are at this site created and maintained

by Sri Venkat Iyengar of Sri VillipputthUr .

 

(B) Sri RanganAtha PaadhukA sahasram:

 

This kaimkaryam was initated during the last

Thirunakshathram of Swamy Desikan jointly with

Dr.V.N.Vedantha Desikan of Oppiliappan Koil,

Srimans MuraLi Rangaswmy of Boston and

Sri Achutharaman of Singapore . We are about to

complete SanchAra Paddhathi . It has taken us

almost a year to arrive upto three hundred slOkams.

Swamy Desikan completed the creation of this

MahA Kaavyam in celebration of Swamy NammAzhwAr

in one Yaamam of a single night . At our pace ,

it will take us another two years to conclude

this kaimakryam. The URL for these postings

is: http://padhuka.homepage.com

 

© Sri HayagrIva SthOthram:

 

Sixteen out of the 33 slOkams have been

completed sofar . The home pages of ParakAla

MaTam created by Sri Rajeev KaramchEdu

( http://hayagriva.homepage.com ) has

the archives. It is hoped that this kaimkaryam

will be completed brfore this Vijaya Dasami day.

 

(D) additions have been made to Swamy Desikan

Home pages maintained by Sri Haresh Balasubramanyan

of Singapore and adiyEn ( http://desikan.homepage.com).

 

(E) SaraNAgathi Journal : Srimans Rengarajan( Publisher),

Venkatesh Elayavalli (Web Master) are helping adiyEn

in my role as the Editor of this electronic journal.

We have been fortunate to release 9 issues this year

sofar and look forward to releasing three more this

year. The URL for this Journal is:

http://srivaishnava.org/sgati

 

4. The Home Pages for ThiruvenkatamudayAn :

 

These home pages were started on Sri Vaikunta

EkAdasi day (1999). We have been blessed to have

the support of TT DevasthAnam on this project.

Rare images of the Lord of Thiruppathi and

the commentaries on the SrinivAsa SuprabhAtham ,

SthOthram , Prapatthi and mangaLam along with

descriptions of AzhwAr's Paasurams on this dhivya

dEsam , DayA sathakam are there .The home pages

are at the URL:

http://srimannarayana .homepage.com

Sri Haresh Balasubramanyan of Singapore is

the Web Master for these special home pages.

 

Srimath Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,

With Sathsanga praNAmams ,

Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SatakOpan