Tamil Vedam-4

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Narayana Narayana

 

Sriman Narayanan was pleased with Sage Agastya's

unwavering and unfaltering devotion. He said,

"Oh Agastya, I am pleased with your devotion. I am

very happy with your penance. I understand

your desire. Just as the yadu vamsham, cursed by

Yayathi, was sanctified by my birth, just as

the kaveri became more sacred than the holy ganga by

my divine grace, so shall your mother tongue

-the Dravida bhasha (tamil)- be considered equal to

the Daiva bhasha (samskritam). Henceforth,

the southern part of India (Dravida desham) shall be

sanctified by my presence . I shall

incarnate as the son of a king named "Kari", in a

place called as "Kuruka nagari", situated on

the banks of the holy Tamraparni river. I shall be

called as "Shatakopan". In that incarnation,

I shall translate all the Vedas and shastras to your

language-Dravida Bhasha, in thousand verses.

At the same time, all the Nityasuris namely Ananta,

Garuda and Viswaksena, all my weapons namely

Panchjanya, Sudarshana, Koumodaki, Nandaka and

Sharnga, and all my Divya parivaram comprising of

Lakshmi, Srivatsa,Kousthubha, Vanamala, etc. shall

incarnate at the end of Dwapara yugam and at

the beginning of Kali yugam in different places. Some

of them take birth in high class families

like Brahmana and Kshatriya. Some shall take birth in

lower classes. Some of them shall come to

this Earth as "Ayonija"s (not born to humans).

Although they will be born as ordinary humans,

they shall never give up their Divya Jnaanam in their

incarnation. With a mind to uplift the poor

souls in this world and help them cross the ocean of

samsara, they shall recompose all the

shastras and Vedas in your mother tongue-Tamil. The

Divya Prabandham, so composed by me and my

Divya Parivaram, shall amount to 4000 verses. Of

these, the thousand verses that I compose, as

"Shatakopan", will be considered as

"Lokottharam"(supreme-beyond this world). All my

devotees,

called as "Sri Vaishnavas", shall master these 4000

verses. Just as Veda Vyasa compiled the Vedas

and divied them, so too shall I compile all the 4000

verses of the Divya Prabandham, when I

incarnate as "Shatakopan". This will be called as

"Dravida Vedam". This Dravida Vedam shall be

considered as equivalent to samskrita Vedas. Since my

devotees master both the Vedas, they will

be entitled to be called as "Ubhaya Vedanta

Pravarthaka"s."

 

(to be continued...)

 

Ramanuja Dasan