Srimath Kadandhethi Andavan (1829 - 1905) Life history - II

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Sri

Srimathe Rangaramanuja Mahadesikaya Namaha

Srimathe Srinivasa Ramanuja Mahadesikaya Namaha

 

 

Sri Srinivasa Ramanuja Mahadesikan (Srimath Kadanthethi Andavan)

Thirunakshatram: Aavani-Moolam

 

Thanian

Srimath Srivasa yogi pravarasa kaaruNa paanghasanghaadha BHangaath

VEdhaantha dvandva vidhya madhu rasa laharich chanchari kaayamaaNaha

thEnaachaaryENa ranga prabhu charaNa yugE daththa rakshaa BharaSri:

Srimath Srivasa raamaavaraja muNimaNis santhatham srEyasEsyaath

 

Srimath KAdandhEthi Andavan's Life history and PrabhAvam - Part -2

 

Swami’s Manthra Sidhi (..contd)

At Nagapattinam, on a request from the town’s Tashildar Sri Rangaswami

Nayakkar, Sri Varada Vedanthachariar swami displayed his Satavadhana

skills in Vellipalayam Krishna Sannidhi. (Sathavadanam is a skill where

the person performing this skill will tackle 100 questions or acts at

the same time). The people were awed by this display. At the end, he

asked a palanquin to be brought and he got into the palanquin. He asked

it to be lifted only in the back of the palanquin. With his manthra

sidhdhi he went on a procession in the palanquin, with no one lifting

the front side of the palanquin.

 

At Tirupathi/Tirumalai

After sometime in Nagapattinam, Sri Varada Vedanthariar swami left again

on a yathra. The king of Kalahasti learnt this mahAn’s prathApam from

Chittoor collector office sirasthadhar Sri Krishnaswami Iyer and invited

him to his samasthAnam. The king gave a village called Vallisembedu and

also gave a portion of the income from another village called Jangapalli

to swami as a gift (sanmAnam) and kept him at his samasthAnam with due

respects.

 

After some time, Sri Varada Vedanthachariar swami left Kalahasthi to

Thirumalai. Here he displayed his satavadhanam skills in front of Sri

Mahanth BhagavAn dAs. At ThiruchAnoor, swami was presented with a house

by a person called Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Pantulu. A son was born to

swami in this house and was named Venkatakrishnan. At Thirumala, he was

gifted an ivory Planquin as a sanmAnam on one occasion. He later donated

this palanquin to Swami Desikan Sannidhi at Thirucherai. He stayed in

Thirupati till he completed 60 years.

 

At Thirukkudanthai

After celebrating his sasthiabdapoorthy at Tirumala, he desired to come

and live in Thirukkudanthai. He sold his properties at Tirupathi and

came to Thirukkudanthai. He purchased a house in Sri Aravamdhan Sannidhi

Street and stayed there. He did many kainkaryam and ubhayam at the

sannidhi of Sri Aravamudhan. He was very much devoted to Sri Komalavalli

Thaayar and donated a Simha Vahanam for Komalavalli ThAyAr.

 

Swami’s Compositions

Sri Varada VedanthachAriar’s friend TashildAr Sri RangaswAmi nayakkar

once challenged swami if there is some work in Sanskrit similar to the

tamil work “Thirukkural”. Swami said he will compose one in a week’s

time and created a grantham called “Adbudha vAmanam”. He also composed a

grantham called “Aaraat Prabhandham”. The above granthams have not been

found now, although the copies are belived to be somewhere in

Thiruvananthapuram, Madurai or Thiruvaduthurai. He also composed a

grantham called “Swapna Sathakam” and sthothras on Thiruvengadamudayan.

When his eyesight had weakened considerably due to his old age, he

composed a grantham called “Sri Komala Dandakam” on Thirukkudanthai

Komalavalli Thaayar. By reciting this wonderful grantham he regained

his vision completely.

 

(to be continued with a concluding part detailing the significance of

Sri Varada Vedanthachariar taking up Thureeyasramam as Srimadh

Kadanthethi Andavan in the year 1905)

 

Srimath Andavan Thiruvadi,

Shyamsundar Sreenivasan