Agamas in malainATu divyadesams?

[Guest guest]

Dear Enlightened Members,

 

Adiyen had lived in Kerala for a long time and worshipped in most of the divya

desams in Central and South Kerala. However, there are no Srivaishnavas in

these temples to perform the daily rituals.

 

They are from the Namboodiri sect most/all of whom are actually saivites and

practising advaitiks. They neither know Tamil nor do they have any knowledge of

the divya prabhandam - this is possibly true of the divya desams in any non -

Tamil Nadu centre also. However, since Kerala has the largest number of divya

desams - as many as 13 - this State assumes significance.

 

Will the Learned members throw better light on this phenomenon as to its history

and origin?

 

Sarathy dAsan

 

[ Just to clarify -- the Nambudiris are not strictly speaking Saivites but

unaffiliated Vedic brahmins, like the "Iyer" brahmin community of Tamil

Nadu. -- Moderator ]

[Guest guest]

Dear members

i am a keralite, especially an iyer, who is a member

of this group for 2.5 years. this is the first time i

am reading such an interesting problem raised. kerala

has the largest no of divya desams after tamlil nadu.

13, infact, 12 becoz, thiruvattar is in tamil nadu

now. in many of these temples, there are inscriptions

of the alwars, who sung about the deity. but few of us

are aware of these. unlike in tamil nadu. there are no

strict vaishnavism at kerala, but most of the people

has adopted the worship insisted by ADISANKARA, that

is a five folded worship of siva, vishnu,

suryanarayana, ganapathi and durga. there are strict

text books known as THANTHRASAMUCHCHAYAM- KRIYABHAGAM

and KUZHIKKAATTU PACCHA, and SAPARIVARAM POOJA which

elaborates the procedures of worship. this is followed

by the nampoodiries, the official archakas of the

temples. i think it is the duty of the fellow

vaishnavaites of tamil nadu, who can do something in

this respect. they can come here, and perform

recitation festivals at these temples to make

awareness and spread the divine fragrance of

divyaprabantham, indeed the same is done by saivates

of tamilnadu, who comes to the temple of

THIRUVANCHIKKULAM, near, KODUNGALLOR, where SAINT

SUNDARAMOORTHY NAYANAR and CHERAMAN PERUMAL, an

ancestor of KULASHEKHARA AZHWAR, attained salvation.

they comes on the malayalam month KADAKA, that is

month of july-august and perform the recitation

festival at both THIRUVANCHIKKULAM, and the death

place of KANNGI,Kodungalloor. even namamalval has left

a passing remark of srivaikuntham, he has sung 10

poems each on triukkatkarai, thirumoozhikkalam,

etc....

with the help of the webmaster of

www.srivaishnavam.com sri. Venkat. i made a humble

attempt to translitrate the verses of divyaprabantham

and desikaprabantham in to malayalam and the scripts

are now available in the site. i think regarding the

absence of pure vaishnavaites, some historians...in

the group may pour some light.

with regards

SREEKANTH

 

 

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