Azhvargal thiruppalliezhuchi in Andal's thiruppAvai-10

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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 the next paasuram, “ellE elankiliyE” Sri Andal awakens the youngest

of the Azhvars (kadi kutti) Thirumangai azhvar. This azhvar gave a

beautiful padhigam (series of 10 paasurams) “mAnamarum mennOkki”

which happens to be a dialogue between two aichis). To remind those

wonderful paasuram of thirumangai azhvar andal has made the paasuram

to awaken him to also be in the same format as a dialogue between

andal and thirumangai azhvar.

 

In many of his paasurams thirumangai azhvar calls him to be parrot.

“kili pOla mizhattri nadandhu”, “men kili pOla miga mizhattrim en

pEdhaiyE” etc. Thereby andal calls him as “kiliyE!” Otherwise it is

a habit of a parrot to repeat whatever we say. Kaliyan took avataram

to repeat the words of nammazhvar (“mAran paniththa thamizh maraikku

Arangam koora avadhariththa”) so even due to this he can be called as

a parrot. Since he is the youngest among the Azhvars he is referred

to as “élan kiliyE” (oh! young parrot).

 

The second line is the answer from thirumangai azhvar.

 

Then andal says, “vallai vun katturaigal pandE vun vAyaridhum” Oh!

azhveer I am familiar with your strength in talking, because you are

the azhvar who has the guts to sing, “vAsivalleer endhalooreerE!

VAzhindhE pOm neerE”. PandE! Indicates knowing what is going to

happen even before azhvar took avathAram.

 

Listening to this kaliyan says,”valleergal neengalE” You were the one

who sang “ kollum payanonrillAdha kongai thannaik kizhangOdum,

allippariththittavan mArbil erindhu ennazhalai theervanE” Is your

words tough or mine?

 

Immediately kaliyan was reminded of his own paasurams where he showed

the atmost humility towards bhagavatas (“naNNAdhavAlavunar” “kansOra

ven kurudhi”, bhagavata sheshatvam) and hence uttered, “nAnEdhAn

Ayiduga”

 

Then andal says, “vunakkenna vErudaiyai” reminded of thirumangai azhvar’s two great thirumadals.

 

Kaliyan then enquires; “ellArum pOndhArO” has all the other Azhvars taken avatharam before me?

 

Val Anai kondrAnai mAyanai: kaliyan was one of the Azhvars who sang

wonderfully on the incident of emperuman killing an elephant. He has

sung the same in many places. “Avarivai seikaRivAr anjanamAmalai pOlE”

“kavala yAnai kombosiththa kannanennum” “vezhamum pAganum veezha” etc.

 

MAttrArai mAttrazhikka vallAnai mAyanai pAda: Emperuman has the

special capacity to overcome the pride of those who act against him.

In the govardhana giri vriththAntham (story) he in a very tactful way

cut down indra’s pride without hurting him in any manner. Kaliyan

was deeply involved in the above divine quality of emperuman. That

is why he ends his Periya thirumozhi with “kundrameduththu Anirai

kAththavan thannai” and while completing his last prabhandam

thirunedundAndakam he says, “kundreduththa thOlinAnai”.

 

In this way it has been shown that andal has awakened her foster

fathers the other Azhvars in her paasurams one by one. Dealing this

subject in more detail will be interesting but will run pages after

pages. So we will stop with this.

 

With this posting the series on thiruppalliezhuchi of Azhvars in

andal’s thiruppavai has come to an end.

 

Azhvar EmperumAnAr Andal Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

 

Adiyen rAmAnuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan