Madhura kaviAlwar tirunakshatram

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Dear Bhagavathas:

Tomorrow is Madhurakavi Alwar Tirunakshatram . Can someone post something about

this great Alwar and forget about other on-going controversies ...?

madhurakavi Alwar tiruvadigalE saranam.

rAmAnuja dAsi

 

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SriMathe RamAnujaya Namaha:

 

Dear Sheela Mamai,

 

Thanks for remembering to all of us about the Thirunakshtram of Madurakavi

Azhwar. A simple description about the Azhwar, which I collected longtime

back from various sources.

 

Place = Thirukollur

Other Names = Inkaviyaar, Azhwaarukku Adiyaan

Month = Chithirai

Star = Chithirai(Chithra)

Sign (Amsam)= Vainatheya(Garuda)

 

In sanskrit Madhura means "Sweet", ofcourse Kavi means "Poet" i.e. the sweet

poet, a vainathEya (Garuda) incarnate, was born in the year Eshwara, chitrai

month and in chitrai nakshatram at ThirukkoLoor. He learnt Tamil and

sanskrit and became a great scholar in both the languages. He was a great

BhaktA of Sriman Narayana. He was on visits to the North India to obtain

divya Darshanams of Ayodhya,Badri,Dwaraka etc.,

 

He chose to stay at Ayodhya as he could not resist being attracted by the

Holiness of Sri Rama's birth place. From there, he was dragged by an

uncontrolled desire to follow the new Southern glorious Star/Light appeared

in the sky and found himself at the feet of the Greatest Azhwar "Sri

NammAzhwAr". After a brief encounter he prayed to NammAzhwAr requesting him

to protect and accept him as his disciple. From then on, he stayed with

NammAzhwAr and complied all pAsurams of NammAzhwAr. Madhurakavi was so much

devoted to NammAzhwAr, his Acharya, that he held him equal to Lord SriMann

Narayana.

 

Madhurakavi Azhwar is the one who helped us by compiling the outpourings of

NammazhwAr; Not just that, he also sang 11 beautiful "andhadhi" style

pAsurams starting with

 

"kaNNi nuNsiRuth thaampinaal kattuNNap

paNNi yaperu maayan,en Nnappanil,

naNNith then_kuru koorn^ampi yenRakkaal,

aNNik kum_amu thooRumen naavukkE.

.......

......

......

anban thannai yadainthavar katkellaam

anban, then_kuru koorn^akar nampikku,

anba Nnaaymathu rakavi sonnasol

nambu vaarpathi, vaikundham kaaNminE."

 

Which do not have any parallel to any other pAsuram for Acharya Bhakti and

devotion. He sang these pasurams only in praise of his Acharya "nammAzhwAr"

and claimed, in the end, that one can attain mOkshA certainly and definitely

after reciting just these 11 pAsurams.

 

Madhurakavi's eyes were full of tears for his (his Acharya's) success; The

11 pAsurams are counted as part of 4000 verses simply because the whole of

4000 pasurams is claimed to be Bhagavadh vishayam while Madhurakavi's is on

his Acharya which is the central gem that sheds lustre on the other jems of

the garland, so says Sri Manavala mAmunigal. It is the work that holds the

key to the treasure of other pAsurams.

 

Sri MadhuraKavi Azhwar ThiruvadiagalE Saranam:

 

Adiyen RamAnuja dAsan,

K.M. Shantha Kumar.

 

 

 

 

Sheela Belur [bvsheela]

Friday, April 26, 2002 1:24 AM

ramanuja

[ramanuja] Madhura kaviAlwar tirunakshatram

 

 

srimatE rAmAnujAya nama:

 

Dear Bhagavathas:

 

Tomorrow is Madhurakavi Alwar Tirunakshatram . Can someone post something

about this great Alwar and forget about other on-going controversies ...?

 

madhurakavi Alwar tiruvadigalE saranam.

rAmAnuja dAsi