Naaraar indai Naanmalar koNdu - 5

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Dear All,

 

Let us contiunue from where we left in the last posting:

ganNdha maamala rettumittu niNnkaamar sEvadi kaithozhudhezhum,

punNdhiyEn manatthE pugunNdhaayaip pOgalottEn, sanNdhi vELvi sadangku

nNaanmaRai Odhi yOdhuvith thaadhi yaayvarum, anNdha NaaLa

raRaavaNiyaali yammaanE

Thriumangai Azhwar sings on ThiruvAli Thirunagari Divya Desam in the

above pasuram. Azhwar refers to the eight flowers in this pasuram.

Instead of offering one/more/all of the eight flowers at different

times, he offers all the flowers together simultaneously. Azhwar

refers to these flowers with reference to Thirumantram. Each letter

in the mantram refers to one flower, and together they form the

Tirumantram.

The above eight letters can be related to each of the eight Swayamvyakta Kshetrams too.

 

They are:(1) Srirangam (2) ThiruVenkadam(3) SriMushnam (4)

Vaanamaamalai (5) Naimisaaranyam (6) Pushkaram (7) Saalagraamam

(8) Badrikaasramam

There was one Azhwar who is known particluarly for Pushpa kaimkaryam.

Let us enjoy his pasurams in the following posting.

To summarize:

1. We started with Nammazhwar's pasurams and his reference to flowers

from any/all of the eight directions, including the kind of pushpa

kaimkaryam in ThiruVenkadam

2. Kaliyan's reference to AshtAkshara mantram as nAmam (TiruVenkadam pasuram)

3. Kaliyan's reference to eight letters of the Thirumantram itself as eight flowers

This number eight has not stopped with these two Azhwars.

seNbakamallikaiyOdu sengazhuneer_iruvaatchi eNpakar_poovumkoNarndhEn

inRu_ivaisoottavaavenRu maNpakar_koNdaanai

aaychchimakizhndhuraiseydha_immaalai paNpakarvillipuththoorkkOn

pattar_piraan_sonnapaththE.aDiyEn,ramanan

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