svAmi maNavALa mAmunigaL vaibhavam - intro

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srImathE SatakOpAya namah

srImathE rAmAnujAya namah

srImathE anantArya mahAguravE namah

srImathE vara vara munayE namah

 

 

dear bhAgavathAs,

 

22nd of october is the thirunakshattiram of

svAmi emperumAnAr's avatAram, the only AchAryA

after svAmi emperumAnAr that Lord RanganAthA

Himself chose as His own AchArya, and to whom

the Lord Himself composed a salutation as the

AchAryA's shisyA, the foremost bhakta of

svAmi rAmAnuja, yatIndrap pravaNar -

svAmi maNavALa mAnunigaL.

 

I was asked by many people to gather information

about this greatest AchArya and share it with

our e-community. Being in India, it is easier

to gain access to more information, and get

the information validated through an authentic

source.

 

Over the next few days, I will attempt to

paraphrase from a tamizh/sanskrit book that is

the authentic history of the srIvaishNAva

sampradAyam after svAmi nampiLLai called

yatIndrap pravaNap prabhAva.

 

The book 6000ppadi guruparamparA prabhAvam

is the earliest known book (after rAmAnuja)

written about the srIvaishNava guruparampara,

and it contains information about the

guruparampara from perumAL, thAyAr, the AzhvArs,

through srIman nAthamuni, ALAvandAr, svAmi

rAmAnuja and continues through svAmi embAr,

svAmi parAsara bhattar, svAmi nanjIyar and

svAmi nampiLLai. This was written by svAmi

pin pazhagiya perumAL jIyar, an immediate

sishya of svAmi nampiLLai.

 

the book yatIndrap pravaNap prabhAvam,

written by svAmi piLLai lOkam jIyar,

a shishya of svAmi maNavALa mAmunigaL

is the earliest work on the guruparampara

after svAmi nampiLLai, and covers the

lives of svAmi nampiLLai, svAmi

vadakkuth thiruveedhip piLLai, svAmi

piLLai lOkAchAriAr, svAmi periyavAccAn

piLLai, svAmi azhagiya maNavALap perumAL

nAyanAr, svAmi thiruvAymozhip piLLai

and svAmi maNavALa mAmunigaL. This

book contains authentic historical

documentation of various key events

in the history of our religion during

those AchAryAs lifetimes.

 

There has been a few reprints of this

book, copied from the original palm leaf

manuscript. Such publications happened

in 1865, 1891, 1907 and 1908 in tamizh

as well as telugu. After that, there

were no further publications till 1991

when Dr.VV Ramanumjam published the

book in 1991. In 2000, the second edition

of this publication was published with

meanings of the sanskrit stOtrAs quoted

in the original.

 

I will attempt to paraphrase some key

parts of the book relating to svAmi

maNavALa mAmuni's life, and His

greatness.

 

Any mistakes, needless to say, are mine

and mine only.

 

AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam,

adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan,

thirumalai anandAnpiLLai varadhan

 

 

 

 

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