'Puthur' svami ~ 'Sudarsanar' S. Krishnaswami Aiyyangar.

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The rs to the Sri Ramanuja internet, and the

entirety of Srivaishnava-s outside of it, are in a

debt of gratitude to Sri N.S. Padmanabhan svami, for

reminding us of the ‘SatAbhishEka mahOtsavam’

(December 8 2004) of Sri ‘Sudarsanar’ (Puthur) S.

Krishnaswami aiyyangar svami.

 

Sri NSP’s steady ‘adhyApaka-GoshThee kainkaryam’ in

the festivals of the tiru-alli-k-kENi divya-dESam is

the self-evident propellant for his other equally

vital ‘kainkaryam’ of aruLi-c-cheyal expositions.

 

Sri NSP has favoured us with an 8-part sketch of

Sudarsanar’s milestone contributions to our

‘sampradAyam’, as under ~

 

(1) publications are of various categories:

(2) sangath thamizh sudharsaNar

(3) 'thirumAl' The Lord of all the Regions

 

(4) 'thirumAl' the Lord of marudham also

(5) ThirumAl the Lord of neidhal nilam

(6) CONTEMPORARY SIGNIFICANCE

(7) sriman nArAyaNa - the root of creation

thirumAl the only Lord who can grant salvation.

(8) "srEmAn" - the person who has wealth of good

words,

nalla vArthai-AgiRa sollai vudaiyavan.

 

In this context, I wish to make mention of my own

booklet entitled ‘Word in Fragrance’ published by Sri

A. Krishnamachari Svami of the ‘SriVaishnavaSri’ 214

East Uttara St., Srirangam-620006 (akchari)

 

This publication is an amplification of my paper [on

the Contribution of S. Krishnaswamy Aiyyangar to

Srivaishnava Exegetic Tradition]. The paper was

presented to the Seminar (17-19 February 2002) on

Srivaishnava Commentary Tradition, organized by that

extraordinary visionary, Prof. M.A.

Lakshmi-tatacharya, Director of the Academy of

Sanskrit Research, Melkote.

 

I was given to understand that this booklet will be

issued as part of the Sudarsanar-SatAbhishEkam

souvenir.

 

The booklet (of 28 pages) is in 3 parts. It starts

with a brief factual biographical write-up on ‘Puthur’

Sudarsanar svami. This is followed by somewhat

detailed recapitulation of the Srivaishnava‘vyAkhyA’

tradition, organized under the following captions ~

· vyAkhyA and sampradAyam.

· The Srivaishnava Tradition.

· The vyAkhyA curriculum.

· The Word in Fragrance.

· The ‘maNi-pravALam’ legacy.

 

The third part highlights Sudarsanar’s specific works,

such as the variorum one-volume edition of the entire

classical commentaries on tiru-p-pAvai, and the

5-volume (3676 pages) commentary-exposition of Sri

Ramanuja’s bhAshyam on Srimad Bhagavad Gita.

 

Sudarsanar’s aforementioned scholarly works apart, he

is well-known for his polemical works systematically

exposing the mischief of an array of influential

misrepresenters and falsifiers authoring spurious and

pseudo-scriptural works. ‘Religion of the Tamils of

Sangham Age’, from which Sri NSP has given interesting

illustrations, is what conclusively establishes that

Lord Sriman Narayana is God Supreme as adored in the

religion of the ancient Tamils. ‘Religion of Kamban’

is a major study, paraphrasing in captivating Tamil

prose certain crucial verses of the world-renowned

classic, as demonstrating that Kamban as much owed to

the ancient Tamil religion as to the scriptures of the

Azhvar mystics.

 

My booklet concludes with the account of the vigilant

re-affirmation made by Sudarsanar svami that

Srivaishnavam is a monotheistic religion.

 

‘Sudarsanar’ Sri S. Krishnaswami Aiyyangar remains the

basic aesthete who receives and cherishes the

other-worldly fragrance (‘surabhi nO mukhA/karat’) of

the sacred Word, as emanating from our precious

inheritance of the vyAkhyA literature, encompassing

the venerated ‘divya-prabandham’/aruLi-c-cheyal of the

Blessed Azhvar saints.

 

aDiyEn rAmAnuja-dAsan,

tirumanjanam Sundara Rajan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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