A Peep into Periya ThiruMozhi 213

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The uniqueness of Kaliyan and archAvathAra EmperumAn

 

paNdu ivara kaNdu aRivadhu evvUril?

 

Smt Rajalakshmi Kannan lists out three unique features of Thirumangai mannan.

 

1. Angry at the archAvathAra Lord.

2. Not able to recognise the identity of archAvathAra Almighty.

3. madal eduthal - Publicly declaring about the love against the archavathAra EmperumAn.

 

1. Angry at archAvathAra Lord: Sri Nam-AzhwAr - KulasEkarazhwAr were cross with

EmperumAn. This was with Lord KrshNA -vibhavAvathAram.

 

Thirumangai Mannan is cross with archAvathAra Lord which is the logical end to

the archAvathAra significance. This is seen in the ThriuindhaLUr thirumozhi

'nummaith thozhudhOam' culminating into 'vAzhndhEa pOam nErEA" 4-9;

 

2. madal eduthal -Declaring in public that the loved one did not keep up the

promise and washing dirty linen in public. Nam-AzhwAr just threatened with thsi

intention in the ThriuvAiMozhi 5-.3 'mAsaRu sOdhi'.

 

However, Thirumangai AzhwAr went a step ahead and infact went public against The

ThriuNaRaiyUr Almigthy - ThirumaDal.

 

3. The ashtabujam Thirumozhi 2-8 talks of Kaliyan wondering who it could be who

is mesmerising him/her. What is the identity? seems to have met but the

imposing beauty is defying recognition. This feature again is observed in

archAvathAram there and here again in kaNNapuram.

 

The ninth pAsuram is categorical

 

'paNdivaraik kaNdu aRivadhu evvUril yAm? enREa payilginRALAL' 8-1-9;

 

ON seeing the earlier day, due to the Supremacy, the Almighty appears to be

similar as if seen earlier.However, after familiarity, the same form appears

new and not easily recognised.

 

Sri PeriyavAchAn piLLai's vyAkyAnam makes this more clear.

 

'mudhal nAL kaNdAl swAbhAvigamAna swAmithvathvAlum mugathil thaNNiyAlumAga

'munbEa kaNdu aRiyum mugamAi irundhadhE! ennum padi irukkum. sira parichiyam

piRandha pinbu 'munbOar idathilum ivanai kaNdaRiyOam enRirukkum.

nithyApUrvamAna vishayam enRapadi'

 

The Lord is fresh and posing a new look every day and a rare value day in and day out.

 

eppozhudhum nAL thingaL ANdUzhi thORum appOdhaikku appOadhu en ArA amudhamEA

 

dAsan

vanamamalai padmanabhan