Digest Number 331

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Srimad Venkata Lakshmana yativaraya namah.

Sri rukmini Sameta Parthasarathy Parabrahmane Namah.

 

Dear Sriman Martin,

 

namaskar.

 

Actually all Yatis of SrIvaishNava sampradAya are eulogized as yOgis.

 

For eg., in our guruparamparA dhyAnam we say:

 

"SrIman lakshmaNa yOgi pungava" which refers to Acharya lakshmaNa i.e. rAmAnuja.

 

In SrI maNavALa mAmunigaL's yatirAja vimSati thaniyan,

we have

 

"nowmi sowmya vara yOgi pungavam"

 

In Thirumalai oLugu, a standard text dealing with the customs of thirumala

temple, we find the first line of the SlOka mentioning the names of eight

principle disciples of maNavALa mAmnuigaL -

 

"vAnAdri yOgi vara vEnkata yOgi varya"

wherein vAnAdri yOgi and vEnkata yOgi refer to vAnamAmalai jIyar and

Thiruvengada JIyar r