ThiruvahIndhrapuram RathnAngi Kaimkaryam( Parrt 98): The 425 Desika Prabandham Paasurams

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SrI :

 

Dear BhakthAs of Swamy Desikan :

 

This is the important day of AvaNi Hastham .

This day is important for three reasons.

 

1. MukkUr Azhagiya Singar's Thiru Nakshathram

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It is the Thirunakshathram (birth day) of

HH the 44th Jeeyar of Ahobila Matam,

SrI Vedantha Desika YathIndhra MahA

Desikan alias MukkUr Azhagiya Singar.

This is the celebrated Jeeyar , who built

the tallest Raaja Gopuram for Lord RanganAtha

at the Lord's command. He observed 35 ChAthurmAsyams

during His reign as SrI Lakshmi Nrusimha

dhivya PaadukA Sevakar and Ahobila Mata

PeetAdhipathi.

 

Day of Saama UpAkarma

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It is also the day of Saama UpAkarma .

Let us invoke the prayer of a Saama Veda Hymn

in the context of today's posting:

 

Yadhindhra citra maiha nAsti tvAdAtAmadrivah

rAdhAstanno vidadvasa ubhayaa hastyaA bhara

 

---PoorvArchika Saaman: 345, Rg Vedam: V.39.1

 

(meaning): " Oh Mysterious and wonderful Lord! Oh Wielder of

"adamantine Justice " ! Oh Supreme Lord of invaluable treasures !

May Thou with both of Your hands shower on us all the wealth

that You have meant for us as a bounty . Please bless us

with this generous anugraham.

 

3. The avathAram of the Two Taniyans

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It is the day , when the First Brahama Tantra Svatanthra Jeeyar

of ParakAla Matam presented the famous Taniyans for His

Two AchAryAs , Swamy Desikan and Sri KumAra VaradAchAr .

These are " the RaamAnuja DayaapAthram" and "SrImallakshmaNa "

Taniyans , which are used by followers of Swamy Desika SampradhAyam.

 

4. Sankalpam for this Holy Day

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As the ThiruvahIndhrapuram RathnAngi Kaimkaryam for Lord DevanAthan

is going through critical times , adiyEn felt that the best way to progress on

this Kaimkaryam is to have a special samarpaNam to Lord DevanAthan .

 

This SamarpaNam will be the translations of the 405 Paasurams of

Desika Prabhandham. May Swamy Desikan bless this Kaimkaryam

and give His benedictions to the RathnAngi Kaimkaryam for His dearest

Lord of ThiruvahIndhrapuram. Thirty five years ago , SrImath Andavan

aasramam presented a beautiful RathnAngi for Swamy Desikan , which

we have the good fortune to enjoy on PurattAsi SravaNam days on Swamy

Desikan's ThirumEni . Vaikunta Vaasi Villur Aasu Kavi Srinidhi

Swamy composed 100 slOkams on the RathnAngi Sevai of Swamy

Desikan.

 

It is adiyEn's prayer that all bhakthAs will join in this important and

once in a life time kaimakryam for Adiyavarkku Meyyan (Natha Sathyan)

of ThiruvahIndhrapuram and expedite its progress. adiyEn hesitates to remind

the BhakthAs often . adiyEn is going to complete the series and leave it

to Bhagavath Sankalpam to assemble the needed funds to complete

this kaimkaryam before SvabhAnu SrI Vaikunta EkAdasi day .

 

5.Outline of the Desika Prabhnadham Translation Kaimkaryam with special Notes

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The text of Desika Prabhandham is available at Srivaishnava.com pages

maintained with great care by SrI Venkat of Bahrain. Hence adiyEn will

not hence reproduce the Prabhandha Paasurams.adiyEn is hopeful that

SrI Venkat will link the translations with the individual paasurams.

We will also provide an echo site at Malolan.org, a new web pages

created to house AchArya SthOthrams and special postings in

their totality .

 

adiyEn will follow closely the vyAkyAnam of Vaikunta Vaasi U.Ve.

SrI SrIrAma DesikAcchAr Swamy of Oppiliappan Koil , who is my

first AchAryan. He was the pioneer in many areas of intrepretation

of the SrI Sookthis of Swamy Desikan.

 

There are 19 Desika Prabhandhams in all . Swamy KumAra VaradAcchAr's

PiLLai AndhAthi is normally linked with Desika Prabhandhams .That would be

additional 20 paasurams along with the 405 paasurams of Desika Prabhandhams.

 

This kaimkaryam inspired by the ongoing RathnAngi Kaimkaryam for the Lord

is also aimed (1) to address the information needs of those , who may not be familiar

with the great contributions in Tamil by Swamy Desikan on deep VedAnthic

doctrines and (2) to familiarize Desika Prabhandhamfor the benefit of those ,

whose mother tongue may not be Tamil.

 

The sequence of Translations will be along the following lines

with the number of paasurams in paranthesis :

 

1) Amrutha Ranjani ( 39)

 

2) AdhikAra Sangraham (56)

 

3) Amrutha SvAdhini (37)

 

4) Parama Padha SopAnam (21)

 

5) Para Matha Bhangam ( 54)

 

6) Mey-Viratha Maanmiyam (29)

 

7) Adaikkala Patthu ( 11)

 

8) Aruttha Panchakam ( 11)

 

9) SrI VaishNava Dinasari (10)

 

10) Thirucchinna Maalai (11)

 

11) Panniru Naamam (13)

 

12) Thiru Manthira Churukku ( 10)

 

13) Dhvaya Churukku (12)

 

14) Charama SlOka Churukku ( 11 )

 

15) GeethArTa Sangraham (21)

 

16) MummaNikkOvai ( 10)

 

17) Nava Mani Maalai ( 10)

 

18) Prabhandha Saaram ( 18)

 

19) AahAra Niyamam ( 21)

 

20) PiLLai AndhAthi of Swamy KumAra VaradAcchAr (20)

 

Total of Paasurams to be covered : 425

 

6. Concluding Observations

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The scope and range of coverage of Swamy Desikan's 19 Prabhandhams

are wide and deep. They deal with Dhivya Desams, AchAryans, AzhwArs ,

Prapatthi as UpAyam and Prapannan's conduct , Tatthva Thrayam ,

ArTa Panchakam , Dhivya Prabhandhams , the Three Rahasyams ,

VaishNava SampradhAyam , AahAra Niyamam , the Twelve names of

the Lord , Pancha Kaala PrakriyA , Aagamams and Masterly Critique of

other Mathams and the defense of the Parama Vaidhika Matham of

VisishtAdhvaitham .

 

Vast indeed is the scope of Swamy Desikan's Prabhandhams ,

which have to be studied along with His Chillarai Rahasyams

and Srimath Rahasya Thraya Saaram as MaNi PravALa granthams

and Tamil SrI Sookthis.

 

adiyEn will give the condensed meanings of individual Paasurams of

the 19 Prabhandams and request SrI Thirukkudanthai Rengarajan

to augment this kaimkaryam with detailed articles on his anubhavam of

individual paasurams at a convenient time.

 

May SrI HemAbhjavalli SamEtha SrI DevanAthan bless this Kaimkaryam,

 

Swamy Desikan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,

SrImath Azhagiya Singar Thiruvadi , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan