Srirangam SouthEast Azhakia-Singar.

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each corner of the Srirangam limits. The north-eastern kATTu-azhakia-SinGar is

the most ancient of these, being situated in a sprawling grove on the northern

arm of the river, koLLiDam. This site is an intimate recall of the famed

kUra-nArAyaNa jeeyar, the master townplanner who became the first

Sriranga-nArAyaNa jeeyar within a few years of Sri Ramanuja's passing away, and

the author of the majestic hymn, Sri-Sudarsana-Satakam. It occurred to the

venerable jeeyar to consecrate a Lakshmi-narasimha on the northwest, and a

Yoga-narasimha on the southwest. The two shrines were pulled down by the

heretics and the two beautiful 'archA' forms are housed in the Grand Temple

shrine of kUrat-AzhvAn. The jeeyar it was who also

established the south-eastern 'teertha-k-karai' (=ODa-k-karai, by current

identification) azhakia-SinGar sannidhi which can be described as a replication

of the Grand Temple ('periya kOyil') of Srirangam itself. The worship deity

('mUla archA') is Sri Lakshmi-narasimha. The festive deity ('utsava mUrti')

is Our Lord himself (nam-perumAL) with his two consorts ('ubhaya-nAicchimAr').

The shrine has good Naik period murals and flag-mast (dhvaja-stambham). This

ODa-k-karai shrine compound is infested by slum squatters who had all set up

without any apparent restraining from the Hindu Religious Endowment Department.

(The shrine is as ill-administered and neglected as can be by the Department.)

The present flooding would have forced out the squatters who have no title

whatsoever to their

camping inside of the shrine compound. This could perhaps be an opportune

moment to get them permanently evacuated, so as to recover the temple property,

and also to enhance the sanctity. (They can all be allotted 'housing' plots

further downstream.) This would require a studied initiative of persons based

in Chennai city, and with access to the HRE Dept. They could avail of the

renowned scholarship and charisma of our savants like 'SrivaishnavaSri' A.

Krishnamachar svami, Sri tiru-k-kOTTiyUr Madhavan svami, Sri Velukkudi Krishnan

svami, and Sri M.A. Venkatakrishnan svami. Their hands are full, but their

organised intervention would make a difference. aDiyEn rAmAnuja-dAsan,

tirumanjanam Sundara Rajan. ramanuja

"Sumithra Varadarajan" <sumivaradan > Mon, 28 Nov 2005

16:41:14 -0800 Re: [ramanuja] Sri Rangam According to what we heard

Srirangam and namperumal are safe the

floods have reached only amma mandapa turai.Adiyen ramanuja dAseesumithra Varadarajan

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