Guest guest Posted March 20, 2002 Report Share Posted March 20, 2002 At 10:55 AM 3/20/02 +1100, you wrote: >Dear Learned members, > In 6th paasuram of Pallandu by Periyazwar, he says > Pandhanai theera pallandhu. I read somwhere that Pandhanai > means Varuttham. If so what is the varuttham of Lord > Narashima after killing Hiranyakashibu? >adiyen, Gowri > Ravi Ganesh . Dear SrImathi Lakshmi Ravi Ganesh: PeriyAzhwAr is referring to the avathAra Kaalam of Lord Narasimhan here . When the Bhagavath DhvEshi and BhagavathApacharan , HiraNya Kasipu hit the victory pillar in his sabhai asking his son , whether his(son's) protector , the Lord , is in that sthambham , the Lord jumped out of that pillar instantaneously to prove that His BhakthA's words will not prove false. PrahlAdhan said , Yes , My Lord is in this Pillar as well . Bhagavan took the Narasimha Roopam and jumped out of the pillar immediately to put an end to the aparAdhams of Hiranya Kasipu to His dearest child bhakthan, PrahlAdan. Our Lord Narasimhan will put up any apachAram done to Him , but He will never tolerate any apachArams doen to His BhaagavathAs . When He took this avathAram , he was very angry with HiraNya Kasipu and was also sad at the indignities suffered by His SrEshta Bhakthan. He had therefore Varuttham as well besides rage. PeriyAzhwAr is inviting us to sing PallANDu to this Narasimha BhagavAn who experienced sorrow at the time of His avathAram. PeriyAzhwAr gets transported to the time of NarasimhAvathAram and sings the PallANDu to chase away the Varuttham (Pandanai theera) experienced by the Lord. Perhaps , He felt that he should have intervened earlier and was grief stricken over the delay in coming to the rescue of PrahlAdhan. V.Sadagopan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 21, 2002 Report Share Posted March 21, 2002 sri parthasarathi thunai srimathe ramanujaya namaha pranams, For the varutham of narasimha adiyal has heard one more explanation.Just wanted to share it.Even though prahlada didnt accept hiranyakasipu's supremacy over narayana he never wanted to insult his father he had his reverence to his father (pithru bhakthi).Lord narasimha killed hiranyakasipu because he illtreated his dear bhaktha prahlada he then feels for killing his bhaktha's father and that is why the varutham.They also say that lord narasimha selected hiranyakasipu's heart to kill him because he wanted to check if there was atleast a little chance for him to change at the last and since the asura's heart was so hard he had no other go than tear it open and kill him. As sri rama also says after ravana's death that ravana was the one who thought him as an enemy and he has never thought him so."Maranathanu jeevitham" and he asks vibishana to do the last kadan of ravana feeling bad for ravana.similarly lord narasimha also feels for hiranyakasipu that is the varutham.Bhagavan has sama darisanam though he comes to favour his bhakthas dushta nigragam sishta paripalanam. adiyen ramanuja dasyai sumithra varadarajan >Dear Learned members, > In 6th paasuram of Pallandu by Periyazwar, he says > Pandhanai theera pallandhu. I read somwhere that Pandhanai > means Varuttham. If so what is the varuttham of Lord > Narashima after killing Hiranyakashibu? >adiyen, Gowri > Ravi Ganesh . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2002 Report Share Posted March 22, 2002 > Dear Learned members, > > In 6th paasuram of Pallandu by Periyazwar, he says Pandhanai > theera pallandhu. I read somwhere that Pandhanai means > Varuttham. If so what is the varuttham of Lord Narashima > after killing Hiranyakashibu? adiyen Dear Smt. Geetha, You bring up an interesting question. Though I have heard and recited this pAsuram many times, I never bothered to think about the meaning of this word. Thanks to you, I have gotten the opportunity read what others have to say as well as look into the acharyas' commentaries on this verse. The Tamil Lexicon gives the following meanings for pantanai (pandhanai): 1. attachment; 2. bondage of the soul; 3. disease of children; 4. daughter. Here, only the first two meanings are relevant for us. This is a tadbhava from the Sanskrit 'bandhana' which literally means attachment. According to this reading, the Alvar may be using pantanai to refer to himself; i.e., 'pantanai tIra pallANDu ... enRu pADuminE' could mean that by singing pallANDu to perumAL he (the Alvar) is free from all his attachments, viz., miseries of bondage. However, this meaning does not fit well into Periyalvar's overall theme of overwhelming concern for perumAL and minimal concern for himself. The commentators beginning with Periyavaaccaan Pillai therefore adopt the rasa-laden meaning mentioned by Sri Gunaseelan. Periyalvar is concerned about the 'anukkam' or infantile weakness of Narasimha, who immediately after having taken "birth" has to destroy Hiranyakashipu. A beautiful anubhavam indeed! aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan, Mani Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2002 Report Share Posted March 22, 2002 Mani Varadarajan writes: > The Tamil Lexicon gives the following meanings for pantanai > (pandhanai): 1. attachment; 2. bondage of the soul; 3. disease > of children; 4. daughter. Here, only the first two meanings > are relevant for us. A correction. What I meant to say is that the first two definitions give us the ordinary meaning and the third definition gives the beautiful meaning adopted by our acharyas. Mani Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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