A Day in the Life of Our Acharyas - 101

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Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

 

In Nacchiyar Thirumozhi 12-5, Andal talks about the dance that Lord Krishna did

on the head of the snake Kaliya.

 

Arkkum en nOy idhaRiyalAgAdhu ammanaimIr thuzhadhippadAdhE

kArkkadal vaNNan enbAn oruvan kaikaNda yOgam thadavath

thIrum

nIrk karai ninRa kadambai ERik kALiyan uchchiyil nattam

pAyndhu

pOrkkaLamAga niruththam seydha poygaik karaikku ennai

uyththidumin

 

The simle meaning for the phrase "pOrkkaLamAga niruththam seydha poygaik karai"

would be that Lord Krishna, as He danced, made the banks of the pond where

Kaliya was, a battlefield.

 

 

Nampillai records that Bhattar offered the following meaning for this phrase.

 

"As soon as the people in Thiryvayppadi heard that Krishna had jumped into the

pond where Kaliya was, they fainted. They did not even have the strength to come

up to the banks of the pond and fainted wherever they were when they heard the

news. It looked like the entire town had become a battlefield and all the people

had been felled in a war.

 

Therefore, it is not that Andal is saying that the banks of the pond became the

battlefield. She is actually saying that the Lord's dance made the whole

Thiruvayppadi a battlefield."

 

Azhvar Emberumanar Jeeyar Thiruvadigale Sharanam

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