Narayana

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Dear Bhaktas,

Recently I went to Alagarkoil. Earlier also I have

gone there several times. I cannot understand why the

main entrance is blocked and Karuppannaswamy is

worhsipped.

Also i find in south of tamil nadu Karuppanaswamy is

considered as a vaishnavaite deity.

i am not clear about the background.

Can any of the bhaktas kindly clarify?

 

'Iruppidam Vaikundam Maliruncholaiyenum Poruppidam

Mayanukkenbar Nalloor. Avai thammodum iruppidum

vanthiruppidam mayan ramnusan vanthiruppidam en

idhayathulle thankkinburave'

 

kidnly forgive if I am wrong.

Srimathe Ramnujaya Namha.

Adiyen Dasan

 

Purisai Nadathur Ravi

 

 

 

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Dear Sri Ravi:

 

KaruppaNNa Saami is a Yellai devathai

seen often in IyaanAr Koils outside

the village limit.

 

He had special powers given by the Lord

at Azhagar Koil " to protect " the temple

and has his position at the Eastern gate.

He took care from artha Jaamam ( conclusion of

night poojai ) to the next morning . Keys were left

with him by the archakAs at the conclusion of the night

poojai and the temple doors were shut.He was recognized

for his services to the Lord by archakaas.

 

Once upon a time , an archakar had left his child behind

in the temple after artha jaamam and closed the sannidhi

and left the key as usual with with KaruppaNNa Swamy .

After he reached his home , he realized his mistake

and ran back to the temple gate and demanded to be let in

to bring the child back to home , where the mother was

distraught.

 

KaruppaNNa Saami according to legend refused to open the closed

door after artha jaamam and assured the bhattar that every thing

is fine and he will take care of the child during the night and return

the child to him in the morning safely.

 

Bhattar was so overcome with agony that he insisted that

the child be immediately returned. KaruppaNNa Swamy got mad

and returned the child in two pieces across the gate

that was closed. After that the door was never opened

according to local story.

 

One may wonder why the Lord would sit still and let

KaruppaNNa Saami do these things. Our most merciful Lord

wont let the child's life to be ended for no fault of it.

Hence , I have a lot of doubt on these traditional

story . The people who worshipped the Lord those days

in abundant numbers were hunters and hill people .

This gate keeper deity might be special to them and

might have created the legend .

 

Sundara ThOLudayAn (Sundara Baahu ) , who recieved

Paasurams from ANDAL and PeriyAzhwAr et al

can not but be a most merciful Lord . He also recieved

Sundhara Baahu Sthavam from KurEsar. Lord RanganAtha

stayed at this temple after the Muslim invasion of

Srirangam .With all this sacred things happening there ,

I can not but low emphasis on the incident that led to

the closing of the front entrance. Today ,we go by the side

of the front entrance to the main temple.

 

Perhaps some one from Azhagar Koil can help to throw

some light on this story relating to KaruppaNNa Saami.

 

V.Sadagopan

 

At 07:34 PM 12/6/01 -0800, you wrote:

>Dear Bhaktas,

>Recently I went to Alagarkoil. Earlier also I have

>gone there several times. I cannot understand why the

>main entrance is blocked and Karuppannaswamy is

>worhsipped.

>Also i find in south of tamil nadu Karuppanaswamy is

>considered as a vaishnavaite deity.

>i am not clear about the background.

>Can any of the bhaktas kindly clarify?

>kidnly forgive if I am wrong.

>Srimathe Ramnujaya Namha.

>Adiyen Dasan

>

>Purisai Nadathur Ravi

>

>