Nanjeeyar Sannidhi in Srirangam

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Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha!

"Namperumal,Nammalwar, Nanjeeyar ,Nampillai yenbar avaravar tham yetrathal

anbudayor sattru tirunamangal thanenru nannenje ethathanai sollu

nee indru" says the Upadesa Rathnamaalai .

 

Madhavacharya was a learned advaitin who was named as Nanjeeyar after being

initiated into the fold of Sri Vaishnavism by Sri Parasara Bhattar as per Sri

Ramanuja's desire.The Moola and Utsava archa vigrahams of Nanjeeyar are present

in melkote.At Srirangam even though there used to be a shrine for Nanjeeyar in

the place where the present cloak room stands(Adjacent to the Tirukkottaram in

Aalinadan Tiruchutru ).Swami Nanjeeyar was present along with Sri

Koorathazhwan,Sri Parasara Bhattar with Sri Lakshminarayana Perumal as the

Tiruvaradhana Perumal.The Nanjeeyar sannidhi was under the control of the

descendants of Somajiyandan and Aayanar .Since there were no male descendants in

these 2 families for a period of 20 years the sannidhi went into disuse and

neglect and fell in ruins . The executive officer of the srirangam temple at

that time (approx during the 1970's)shifted the vigrahams of Nanjeeyar and Sri

Parasara Bhattar to the temple museum .Since the Nanjeeyar vigraha was a jeeva

vigraha (A Vigraha to which Nithya tiruvaradhanam was performed) the Srirangam

Temple Heritage Protection Committee (STHPC) took the necessary efforts and

relocated the vigraham of Nanjeeyar inside Sri Koorathazhwan's Sannidhi where

Sri Parasara Bhattar's Moola and Utsava vigrahams reside .Even today the

worshippers can see the image of Nanjeer under the lotus feet of Sri Parasara

Bhattar .The STHPC thanks the HR&CE Commissioner Sri.Savarkar,EO/JC

Sri.R.Muthuswamy and the Sthalathar and Rotation trustee Sri Parasara

Tiruvengada bhattar for their kind cooperation.With the relocation of Nanjeeyar

on the 8th of March,2001,the folowing acharyas have their respective sannithis

in Srirangam.This is is a unique feature of Srirangam as no other temple in the

world has such a galaxy of acharyas .

 

1.Nathamunigal

2.Alavandar

3.Periyanambi (This Shrine is in East Chitra Street )

4.Tirukkachi Nambi

4.Udayavar

5.Koorathazhwan

6.Embar

7.Parasara Bhattar

8.Nanjeeyar

9.Nampillai (Outside the Saptha Prakara)

10.Periyavachan Pillai

11.Pillailokacharya

12.Sri Nigamantha Mahadesikan

13.Manavalamamunigal(This sannidhi is in South Uttara Street)