Azhvargal thiruppalliezhuchi in Andal's thiruppAvai-1

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe rAmAnujaya Namaha

Sri vara vara munayE Namaha

Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha

 

“poigaiyAr bhoodhaththAr pEyAr pugazh mazhisai

iyan arul mAran sEralarkOn-tuiyapatta

nAdhan anbartAl thooli narpAnan nankaliyan

edhivar thOtrath thadaivAm engu”

 

“In her divine work thiruppavai, our dear kodhA piratti,

soodikodduththa nAchiyar Sri Andal, from the sixth to the fifteenth

paasuram wakes up the ten Azhvars”, enjoys our poorvacharyas in their

svabhadeshArtham (these are special anubhavams of our acharyas which

are near and dear to their heart). Andal is regarded as “anju

kudikkoru sandhadhi” (as a daughter to all the Azhvars). In the

above mentioned ten paasurams andal awakens the Azhvars one by one

starting with periyAzhvar, andal’s foster father who brought her up

and then she goes in a descending order till poigai azhvar and in the

following seven paasurams explains the seven thirunAmams respectively.

Then she proceeds to wake up the 3 azhvars, anbartAl thooli, narpAnan

and

nankaliyan who are going to take birth in future predicting their birth by her jnana drishti.

 

Sri PrathivAdi bhayangaram annangaracharya swamy deeply immerses

himself in the anubhavam of andal singing thirupalliezhuchi to the

various Azhvars in her paasurams and explains the correlations in

meanings and words in the lines of andal that indicates the Azhvars.

Let us also enjoy swamy’s anubhavams to the smallest extent possible.

 

 

“pullum silambina kAn”

 

This paasuram awakens periyAzhvar (periyAzhvar thirupalliezhuchi).

Andal calls periAzhvar as “pillAi!” One who is ignorant is called as

“pillAi”. What is periAzhvar’s ignorance? Periazhvar is ignorant

(has forgotten) of the fact that perumal is sarva rakshakan (one who

is the saviour of all) and hence he does mangalasasanams to perumal

for the welfare of emperuman. Hence andal calls periAzhvar as

“pillAi”. “jnana vibhAga kAryamAna agnAnaththAlE varumavaiellAm

adikazhanju perum” says pillai ulagAriyan in his Srivachana

bhooshanam. Here lokAcharya shows that

agnanam is the root for mangalAsAsanam. Since this azhvar has spent

most of his time in the garden, in this paasuram andal starts the

paasuram indicating the atmosphere in a garden, “pullum silambina

kAn”. “Pullaraiyan” refers to Periya thiruvadi (Sri garudAzhvan).

According to the guru parampara prabhAvam periAzhvar is supposed to

be the avathara of Periya thiruvadi (“vainathEyAmsa sambhoodham

vishnuchittham aham bhajE”). Here andal indicates the same and says

“pullaraiyan”.

 

“vellai vilisangu” is a phrase which has been first used by periAzhvar

(periAzhvar thirumozhi 4-1-7). Andal repeats the same in this

paasuram to strongly show the correlation of this paasuram to

periAzhvar. “peimulai nanjundu”-- PeriAzhvar, out of all the leelas

of Krishna, first talks only about the incident of Krishna drinking

the poisoned milk of bhoothaki in periyAzhvar thirumozhi

(seedhakadalul) “pirangiya pEichi mulai suvaitundittu” says

periAzhvar in another paasuram. In one another paasuram “nAlgalOr

nAlaindhu” periAzhvar combines the incident of sagadAsurabhangam

along with the above incident. So Andal here also says, “peimulai

nanjundu kalla

sagadam kalakkazhiya kAlOchchi”. “vella tharavil thuyilamarindha

viththinai vullaththukkonda munivargalum yOgigalum” says andal.

PeriAzhvar is called as “Vishnu chittar”-one whose mind is always

filled with the thought of lord Vishnu. So the above line of andal

also indicates towards periAzhvar.

 

Now that andal has awaken periAzhvar in this paasuram lets see how she

awakens kulasekara perumAn in the next paasuram in the next posting.

 

Azhvar EmperumAnAr Andal Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

 

Adiyen rAmAnuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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