RE: Acharya thaniyans

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Sri Mukundan Pattangi wrote:

 

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> Pattangi [danp]

> Thursday, May 31, 2001 5:56 PM

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> Guruparampara -                9:10 am Stotra Patham

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> Sri:saile:sa  daya:pa:thram dhi:bhakthya:di guna:rnavam | 

> (Ramanuja Sampradaya)

> yathi:ndra pravanam vande: ramya ja:ma:tharam munim ||

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> Ramanuja  daya:pa:thram gy:ana vairagya bh:ushanam |

> (Desika Sampradaya)

> srimath venkat:a na:tharyam vande vedant:a desikam  ||

 

adiyEn begs to differ. SriSailESa dayA pAtram... is the

thaniyan for Sri MaNavALa mAmunigaL, not Bhagavat Ramanujar.

Therefore it should be referred to as Sri maNavALa mAmunigaL

sampradAyam, NOT Sri Ramanuja Sampradayam as above. This is

not to suggest that Sri MamunigaL's thaniyan is not part of

Sri Ramanuja sampradAyam, but since Swami Desikan's thaniyan

has been annotated as "Desika SampradAya", adiyEn just wishes

to set the record straight.

 

Further, Swami Desikan PRECEDES Sri mAmunigaL in the order

of appearance in bhUlOkam, and SrI MAmunigaL while commenting

upon SrI PiLLai lOkAchArya's works, respectfully cited SwAmi

DESikan's SrI-SUktIs more than 30 times. Also in the UpadEsa

RatNa-mAlai, SrI MAmunigaL has payed his reverential tributes

to SwAmi DESikan {in one pAsuram} as one of the pUrvAchAryas.

While Sri mAmunigaL is regarded as the avathAram of AdiSEsha,

Swami Desikan is regarded as the avathAram of the "maNi" of

thiruvEnkatam udayAn or even thiruvEnkatam udayAn himself,

as some believe.

 

So WHAT then, is the thaniyan of Sri Ramanuja SampradAyam?

They are the following (composed by Srivatsa chinha miSrar,

or Swami kooraththAlvan - the GREATEST kainkaryapArar to

bhagavat Ramanujar):

 

> Yo:  nithyamachyutha  pada:mbuja  yugmarukma

> vya:mo:hathas  thadithara:ni  thruna:ya me:nay |

> asmad guro:r  bhagavato:sya  dayaika sindho:ho

> ra:ma:nujasya charanau  saranam prapadye: ||

 

"I surrender to that divine Sri Ramanuja, our guru, an ocean

of mercy, who in his intense attachment to the two feet of

Lord Achyuta considered all else as worthless as grass"

 

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,

-Srinath C.