svami manavala mamuni vaibhavam - part 7

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srImathE SaTakOpAya namah

srImathE rAmAnujAya namah

srImathE anantArya mahAguravE namah

srImathE vara vara munayE namah

 

dear bhAgavathAs,

 

in the last post, i had paraphrased details of

svAmi maNavLa mAmuni's life till the time svAmi

PB aNNa became his sishya. Now, I will continue

with the paraphrasing.

 

>From this posting onwards, I am going to use

the other names of svAmi maNavALa mAmnuni -

etiher periya jIyar or just jIyar.

 

jIyar wanted to worship the Lords of thirumalai

and kAnchipuram once again, and after obtaining

permission from Lord ranganAthA, left for

the yAtra along with numerous sishyAs including

svAmi PB aNNa. First, they went to kAnchipuram

to worship the Lord that gives and gives to

His devotees - pEraruLaaLan - Lord vardarAja.

svAmi maNavALa mAmuni gave us two wonderful

slOkAs in sanskrit and 2 pAsurams that describe

the temple and the Lord. I paraphrase the

sanskrit temple first -

 

"I fall at the feet of the Lord who is surrounded

by srIdEvi and bhUdEvi under the puNyakOti

vimAnam, after worshipping the holy

pushkariNi that is opposite the bali pIta,

Lord vENugOpAla, Lord gnyAnap pirAn, srI

bhattarpiraan, srI saTAkOpa, srI kali kari

thirumangai AzhvAr, thirumazhisaip pirAn,

periya nambi, emperumAnAr, the mudhal AzhVArs,

the mudalis that guard the entrance, the

abhishEka maNtapam, perundEvith thAyAr,

thiru Azhi AzhvAn, thiru anantAzhvAn,

chakkaravarthi thirumagan, kariya mANikka

varadar, thiru madap paLLi, periya thiruvadi,

azhagiya singar, sEnai mudanmaiyaAr,

and the thiru aththi mAmalai".

 

This slOka describes the layout of the temple

as it was during svAmi maNavALa mAmuni's time.

One can see the most of the same layout

even to this day in the temple.

 

Another slOka is as follows - " I medidate

on the LOrd whose feet are Lotus feet,

the one who is Lakshmi vallabha, whose

divind body glows with the light generated

by the divine ornaments, whose beautiful hands

tells us not to worry and has the gadhA,

sankha and chakra, and the LOrd of hasthigiri"

 

Then, he also composed dEvarAja mangaLam -

that beautiful maNgaLa stOtra for the LOrd,

a slOka of which we recite every day -

asthi srIsthu na kasthUri vAsanA vAsithOrsE

srI hasthigiri nAthAya dEvarAjAya maNgaLAm.

 

After he performed the maNgaLAsAsanam, the

kAnchipuram srIvaishNavAs gave jIyar a maTam

to stay, and requested him to give upanyAsams

on thiruvAymozhi and rahasyas. jIyar stayed

at kAnchi for sometime, during which the annual

brahmOtsavam happened. svAmi performed

maNgaLAsAsanams to the Lord during the 10

days of the utsavam on the vAhanams. During

this time, erumbi appa came from shOlingar

to pay his obeisances to svAmi.

 

the srIvaishNavAs at kAnchipuram requested

svAmi to establish a learned person at

kAnchipuram from whom they can continue

their learning the rahasya granthas and

the sampradAyam. jIyar commanded vAnamAmalai

jIyar svAmi to bring him svAmi

appAchchiyAr aNNa. This svami was a

learned scholar and a great srIvishNava

that was a descendant of svAmi mudaliyANdAn.

jIyar commanded him to reside at kAnchi

and perform the darsana nirvAham on his

behalf from kAnchi. Further, the local

people gave this svAmi a vigraha called

"azhaiththu vAzhiviththavar", one of the

shat bErAs of the kAnchi temple, that is

to this day present in the sannadhi of this

thirumALigai.

 

After this, jIyar and his sishyAs left

kAnchipuram and reached thirumalai after

worshipping at thiru-k-kadigai (shOLingar).

 

In thirumalai, a slOka has been given to

us by elders again, that describes the temple

layout as it was during that time - The

paraphrasing is as follows -

 

"One should worship the big bali peeTA

after that the maNtapam known as yamunaith

thuraivar (named after ALAvandAr by srI

ananthAzhvAn svAmi, where performed

pushpa kainkaryam to the Lord of thirumalai),

then the entrance that is near the shenbaga

tree (called shenbaga vrksha vAsal),

srI garudA, the thiru madap paLLi, the

thirumAmaNi maNtapam, the Ananda nilaya

vimAnam that is covered with gold, sEnai

mudanmaiyAr, rAmAnuja, the Lord nrsimha

and then Lord rAmA. After that, one should

worship the Lord of thiruvEngadam, the one

who has faultless glory, the one who has

beautiful thirumArbu (chest) that is the

abode of Lakshmi and whose eyes are like

beautiful lotuses".

 

In the next post, I will paraphrase some

incidents from jIyar's life that deal with

some of the kainkaryas that he performed at

thiruvEngadam.

 

AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvdigaLE saraNam,

adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan,

varadhan

 

 

 

 

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