Srimath Devanarvilagam Azhagiyasingar - Part IV

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Srimath Sriranga PruthvIswara SataripuNa Samyamintherana Drishtam

NyasyathmAnam NrusimhE Narahari Shatajith YoginEthu PrasadAth

PragynA SrirangakAri-Prabhava-yathipathE: PrAptha LakshminrusimhA-

sthAnam sEvE YathIndram GuNanidhim VeeraraghvIsatArim

 

SrimathE SriLakshminrusimha Divya PAduka Sevaka

SriVaNN SatakOpa SriVeeraRaaghava SatakOpa Yathindra Mahaa DesikAya Namaha

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Thiruchinnam is a wind instrument present in almost all the DivyaDesams and

It will be played well ahead of (or) during Perumal

ThiruVeedi Purappadu (procession). If the majestic sound of thiruchinnam

is heard in a street, then it means that perumal is in procession. Adiyen

has experienced this in Chittrai Brahmotsavam of Govindarajar Sannidhi in

Keezh Tirupathi. Adiyen's grand parents were residing in Gangundra Mandapam

Veedi(Gangaikonda Mandapam veedi) at Tirupathi. Govindarajar would proceed

in different Vahanams during Brahmotsavam from Koil to this Gangaikonda

Mandapam and after thaligai and Sevakalam

he would proceed back to temple. Thaligai would proceed first to the

Mandapam and then thiruchinnam would sound. IF thiruchinnam sound is

heard , then we know that Perumal is somewhere in the vicinity. Adiyen's

grandparents would wake me up (as sometimes, it would be late in the night

when perumal purapaadu happens) and my grandfather will do the offerings to

perumal and then we would proceed to the Mandapam.

 

Swami Desikan has written about thiruchinnam in Thiruchinna Maalai. It is a

belief that Devadirajan (Kanchi Varadaraja perumal) had two thiruchinnams.

After Swami Desikan composed Thiruchinna Maalai, Kanchi Varadaraja perumal

discarded the second thiruchinnam and accepted our SwamiDesikan's

Thiruchinna Maalai as his another thiruchinnam. Hence

there is only one thiruchinnam at Hasthigiri. Such is the importance of

Thiruchinnam.

 

Once, Srimath Devanarvilagam Azhagiyasingar was camping at Ahobilam.

Devotees from other parts of India had come for darshan of our Srimath

Azhagiyasingar. After getting the blessings of Acharyan, four of the

devotees proceeded to Mel Ahobilam for having a darshan of the UgraSthambam.

Thirumangai Azhwar has performed MangalaSasanam of SingaVelKundram as

"Sendru Kaandarku Ariya Kovil", "Deivamallal Sella Vonna SingaVezh

Kundrame", "Kavvu Naayum Kazhugum Vuchhi pothodu

Kaal Suzhanru" etc. Such is the toughness of travelling to have the darshan

of the Nava Narasimhas of this DivyaDesam. The sun had set and it was also

KrishnaPaksham and hence it was pitch dark in Ahobilam. Four of the devotees

who had gone to UgraSthambam had not returned. In the mean time, the four

devotees had darshan of UgraSthambam and were returning back. It was pitch

dark and they were fearing that they might have strayed from the correct

path. The relatives of these devotees in Keezh Ahobilam were getting

agitated and did not know what to do. The relatives prayed to Srimath

Azhagiyasingar. After the evening Aradhanam, Srimath Azhagiyasingar asked

some of his KaimkaryaParaals to take "Thiruchinnam", and "Deevati" (torch)

and proceed in the direction of UgraSthambam. He also informed them to blow

the Thiruchinnam so that people coming down the hill would hear this sound

and and travel on the correct path guided by the sound of Thiruchinnam.

Kaimkarya Parals proceeded towards Mel Ahobilam and after sometime the four

pilgrims heard the sound of thiruchinnam and synchronized their

direction to the sound of Thirucchinnam . In a few hours, the four devotees

and the kaimkaryaparals were back at Keezh Ahobilam Mutt. Srimath

Devanarvilagam Azhagiyasingar informed the anxious relatives that it was

SriLakshmiNrusimhan's Anugraham that these four had returned safely.

 

 

To Be Continued.

 

Source: From a 2000 issue of SriNrusimhaPriya : Sampadakar Kurippu

Sri. U.Ve. Purisai N. Krishnamachariar Swami. Many thanks to Sri.

Oppiliyappan Kovil Varadachari Satakopan for corrections to this

article.

 

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srimadh rangasatari samyamivaraat labdhaaga maandhathdvayam |

srimadhveera ragoothvahathya sadajith paadhaaravindhasrayam ||

srimadh vedhavadhamsa desikayathe kaarunyaveekshaaspatham |

seve rangathureena saasanavasam naarayana yoginum ||

 

Srimathe Lakshminrusimha divya pAduka sevika

Srivan satakopa Sri Narayana Yathindra MahadesikAya Namaha

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