A General Announcement and Thirumanjana Kattiyams for Perumals ( Oppiliappan , RanganaTan and VaradarAjan ): Part I

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Sun, 7 Apr 2002 21:48:03 -0400 (EDT)

 

 

 

Vishu Samvathsara Panguni Sravanam

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SrI:

 

Dear BhakthAs:

 

yesterday was SravaNa Vratham and today VishNu

Nakshathram of SravaNam is presiding still.

 

AN ANNOUNCEMENT ON ADIYEN'S FUTURE POSTINGS

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adiyEn wants to make an important announcement

regarding the two Future sites of appearance of

my postings . They will appear solely in the Oppiliappan

and SaraNAgathy Lists from hereon .

 

THIS IS TO AVOID TOO MANY E-MAILS

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To reduce the reader discomfort by publishing in

many lists to reach out to a wider audience ,

it occured to me that it will be better to

confine the publishings of my postings in

the Oppiliappan and Saranagathy Lists alone.

 

Please to Oppiliappan List and

Saranagathy lists if you wish to recieve

the postings on the current series and the

postings on future series . The e-mail for

subscriptions to the two lists are :

 

Oppiliappan-

Saranagathy-

 

All of you are invited to contribute

postings on VisishtAdvaitham, Dhivya prabhandhams ,

Veda Manthrams , PoorvAchArya SrI Sookthis,

and Dhivya Desam projects to the Oppiliappan e-list.

 

Status of Ongoing Series

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The current series awaiting completion

in the newly created Oppiliappan List are:

 

1.SrI GuNa Rathna Kosam of ParAsara Bhattar

(SlOkams 56-61).

2.SrI VaradarAja Sthavam of KurEsar(slOkams 18-101)

3.SrI SaraNAgathi DhIpikai of Swamy Desikan( SlOkams 20-59).

4.Maangalya Sthavam( SlOkams 5-43)

5.Veda Manthrams linked to SaraNAgathy

6.Individual VaanamAmalai Paasurams

7.Chillarai Rahasyams of Swamy Desikan in

SaraNAgathy List

8.DramidOpanishad Saaram of Swamy Desikan

in Oppiliappan List.(slOkam 5-26).

 

Future Series

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The future series will start with

the Thirumanjana Kattiyam for RanganAthan.

 

Four other series will follow on

Lord RanganAthan in the Oppiliappan List:

 

1) SrI RanganAtha SuprabhAdham (27 slOkams) sung after

ThirupaLLIyezucchi at SrIrangam and hopefully

soon at Lord RanganAthA's temple at Pomona , NY.

 

2) SrI RanganAtha Sthuthi ( 9 slOkams)

 

3) SrI RanganAtha Prapatthi (5 slOkams)

 

4) SrI RanganAtha MangaLam ( 11 slOkams)

 

All of these are composed by Aasukavi KidAmbi

T.Govinda Iyengar of SrIvilliputthUr.

 

The Quartet for Malayappa Swami at Thirumalai

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At dhivya dEsams , SuprabhAtham , Sthuthi ,

Prapatthi and MangaLam go together. At Thirumalai,

this quartet was composed by PrathivAdhi Bhayakaram

ANNA . The meanings and commentaries of this

quartet has been inclued by adiyEn in the VenkatEswara

Home pages (http://venkateswara.freeservers.com).

 

ThiruviNNagar Related Quartet

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At ThiruviNNagar , these were composed by

SrI Vaikunta Vaasi Vangipuram NabanItham

SrIrama DesikAcchAr Swamy (http://oppili.org).

 

Kanchi Varadarajan's SuprabhAtham

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Anyone who knows a similar set used at

Kanchi SrI VaradarAjan's temple are requested

to let me know.

 

Plans for a New Multimedia Interactive CD ROM

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It is adiyEn's plan to create an interactive

CD ROM with recitations of Thirumanjana Kattiyam for

the three PerumAls at ThiruviNNagaram , SrIrangam and

Kaanchipuram. We already have wonderful videos of

Thirumanjanam and PuRappAdu for Lord VaradarAjan

with His new svarNa Kavacham . That will be included

in the future CD ROM . If anyone knows of Thirumanjana

Kattiyam for Lord VenkatEsan of Thirumalai , please let

adiyEn know. We can integrate it with the current home pages

for ThiruvEngadamudayAn ( http://venkateswara.freeservers.com).

 

Thanks to all Moderators of the SrI VaishNavite e-Lists

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adiyEn wants to thank all the moderators of the various

lists (Bhakthi, SrI Ranga SrI , Venugopala, Ramanuja Mission,

International Ramanuja Society , AchArya, ParakAla Matam

and Malolan ) for releasing my postings in their lists

until now . The moderators of these lists are welcome

to make use of adiyEn's postings , as needed in future .

adiyEn will continue to be a Member of all of the above lists

to keep abreast of the informative postings in these lists .

 

Introduction to Thirumanjana Kattiyams

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adiyEn would like to start a series of postings on

the Thirumanjana Kattiyams for the dhivya Desa EmperumAns

at three dhivya Desams : Oppiliappan Koil , SrIrangam

and Kaanchi .

 

ThiruviNNagar Thirumanjana Kattiyam

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adiyEn has already posted the Thirumanjana Kattiyam

for ThiruviNNagarappan few months back and it is

archived in the Home pages for our Kula Dhaivam

( http://oppiliappan.org/kattiyam.htm

 

SrI RanganAthan's Thirumanjana Kattiyam

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Most recently , Sri Thirukkudanthai Samapth Rengarajan

gave me a copy of NamperumAL Thirumanjana Kattiyam

by Swamy Parasara Bhattar some nine centuries ago .

SrI vaishNava SrI PutthUr A. KrishnamAcchAr Swamy

reelased this 87 page monograph in Tamil with

the original slOkmas in Sanskrit. It is the tradition

at SrIrangam for the descendants of the ParAsara Bhattar

and Veda VyAsa Bhattar to recite this Kattiyam in front

of SrI RanganAthan on the first day of Tamil Months ,

Every EkAdasi , Revathi days ( birth nakshathram of

NamperumAL ) , the two grahaNams and the last days of

many uthsavams. Lord RanganAthA has his Thirumanjanam

on these days.

 

During those occasions , the PuruhOthithar of Lord of

SrIrangam is invited for the recitation of the Veda manthrams

and Thirumanjana Kattiyam .Bhattar was appointed by RaamAnujA

to be the SrI RangEsa PurOhithar . Bhattar composed this

beautiful kattiyam , where he compares PerumAL to a River,

Mountain , Ocean , Kalpaka Vruksham , Rain-laden cloud , Sooryan ,

Chandran and wrote a scholarly commentary on each of the slOkams

with pramAnams from Veda-Saasthra-PurANa -IthihAsams and

the SrI sookthis of PoorvAcharyALs. These MaNipravALa

Commentaries are deep in meanings and are read even today with

individual Thirumanjana Kattiyam slOkams by the descendants

of the Vamsam of ParAsara and Veda VyAsa Bhattars , the two

sons of KuratthAzhwAn and ANDAL AmmAL. Both were born

as RanganAtha PrasAdham to KurEsa Dampathis and were given

their names by AchArya RaamAnujA Himself.

 

Dr.S. Padmanbhan of DevanAr ViLagam has commented on

the Thirumanjana Kattiyams in his book on "Parasara

BhattA: His contribution to VisishtAdhvaithA . adiyEn

will add to that and include the excerpts from Swamy

Parasara Bhattar's own MaNipravALam commentary .

 

with prayers to asmath AchAryan , Prakrutham Azhagiya Singar,

SrImath NaarAyaNa Yathindhra MahA Deikan and adiyEn's

Kula Dhaivam , SrI BhUmi Devi SamEtha SrI OppilA appan

for completion of these Kaimakryams ,

 

NaarAyaNa , NaarAyaNa , NaarAyaNa

Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SaThakOpan/SadagOpan