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Srimate SrivanSatakopa

Sri Vedanta Desika Yatindra Mahadesikaya nama:

The Terazhundoor Emperuman

 

Thiruvukkum-ThiruvAgia selva-dheivathukkarasEa...

TirumArbA-nediyAnEa....

 

Having seen what Sri Tirumangai Mannan has to say about Terazhundoor,

its fabulous flora and fauna and the men and women of the place,

shall we finally enjoy Azhwar’s inimitable verses on the Lord of this

divyadesam? The purpose of dwelling on the peripheral matters first,

was to afford readers an idea of the extremely favourable impression

the place had made on Azhwar and to emphasize how all the learning,

all the prosperity of Azhundoor was a conducive factor for Bhagavat

bhakti and anubhavam, just as “seer malgum Aayppaadi” was, for the

Gopis.

 

What impresses even a casual reader of these 40 pasurams, is the

extremely endearing epithets and addresses that Azhwar reserves for

this Emperuman. We wonder whether Sri Ramanuja, while composing his

Gadyams, drew inspiration from these pasurams, which contain the

choicest of sobriquets for the Lord. Here are a few, for a sample—

 

“Deivatthukku Arase!” “Tirumaarba!” “Tiruvukkum Tiru aagiya Selva!”

“Maalvanna!” “Mazhai pol oli vanna!” “Cchandoga!” “Pouzhiya!”

“Taitthireeya!” “Saama Vediyane!” “Nedumaale!” “Neenda Tol

udayaai!” “Iyya!” “Parane!” “Madhavane!” “Madhusooda!”

“Narane!” “Naaranane!” “Arane!” “Panbaala!” “Pavitthirane!”

“Andaa!” “Aayaa!” “ Kaar vanna!” “Endaai!” “Nediyaane!”

“Putkodiyaai!”

 

Perhaps these are the only group of pasurams, in the entire 4000, to

contain so many endearments addressed to the Lord and show Sri

Kalian’s insatiable thirst for naama sankeertanam. Azhwar is loathe

to sticking to the thousand names of the Vishnu Sahasranamam and

coins many new and extremely sweet sobriquets for Emperuman, each

emotive and expressive epithet bringing out newer and newer aspects

of His glory. The other day, I came across a catalogue of Emperuman’s

tirunaamams (“naamaavali”), compiled from Divya Prabandam, and

predictably, most of the names were culled out from Periya Tirumozhi.

When we read the poignant pasurams of Parakala in conjunction with the

glorious Gadyams of Sri Ramanuja, we readily understand the prayer to

the latter, for blessing us with the esoteric purport of the former’s

outpourings—“Engal gadiye! Iraamaanusa Muniye!.....Mangayar kon eenda

marai aayiram anaitthum tangu manam nee enakku taa!”

 

It is interesting to note that four of the names Azhwar bestows on

Emperuman relate to His association with the Shruti, perhaps in

expansion of Sri Nammazhwar’s words, “Ulan sudar migu surudiyul”. Not

content with saying merely that Emperuman has the Shruti as His

eternal abode, that He is to be seen through the wise eyes of the

Shruti alone, that it is He alone who knows its eternal and esoteric

purport, Sri Tirumangai Mannan mentions each and every section of the

Shruti independently and associates Emperuman with them—“Chhandoga!

Pouzhiya! Taittireeya! Saama Vediyane!”—relating the Lord with the

Chhandogya Upanishad, the Kousheetaki Braahmanam, the Taittireeya

Samhita and the Sama Veda as a whole. All this demonstrates Azhwar’s

erudition, his boundless veneration for the Shruti, and his

conviction that it is the Shruti that shows up Emperuman .

 

Srimate Sri LakshmiNrisimha divya paduka sevaka SrivanSatakopa Sri

Narayana Yatindra Mahadesikaya nama:

dasan, sadagopan

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