tirumaNikkUDam(tirumangai AzhvAr’s Periya tirumozhi 4.5.2) – tirunAngUr divyadEsam

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SrImate ra’ngarAmAnuja mahA deSikAya namaH

 

tirumaNikkUDam(tirumangai AzhvAr’s Periya tirumozhi 4.5) – tirunAngUr

divyadEsam

 

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SrImad ANDavan tiruvaDigalE SaraNam,

kalyANi kRshNamAcAri

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tirumaNikkUDam - Periya tirumozhi 4.5.2:

 

kavvai vAL eyiRRu vaN pEi

kadirmulai suvaittu ilangai

manniya (vavviya) iDumbai tIrak (kUrak)

kaDunkaNai turanda endai

kovvaivAi magaLir kongaik

kumkumam kazhuvip pOnda

deyvanIr kamazhum nAngUrt

tirumaNik kUDattAnE

 

A. SrImad tirukkuDandai ANDavan:

 

Ordered by kamsan, pUtanA, a demoness, comes to kill kaNNan; taking the form of

yasodhai, she tries to entice Him to drink milk from her. Her teeth look sharp

like swords; she has a heart that is like stone; and she is shining with the

poison applied to her nipples. kaNNan killed her by drinking off her chest.

 

ilangai is filled with rAkshasa-s and resembles a snake-hill where snakes live

permanently. irAmapirAn threw His deadly arrows at ilangai to get rid of its

poverty. The wealth of a place is provided by sAdhu-s – learned ascetics and

brahmins. The poverty comes from having evil ones as its residents. rAma aimed

His arrows to kill this poverty in ilangai. He drove away the miseries caused

by rAvaNa.

 

That kRshNa and rAma are now standing in tirumaNikkUDam.

 

AzvhAr then talks about the natural beauty of the place in the latter half of

the pAsuram.

 

River kAvEri flows through this place. Ladies with lips red like kOvaip pazham

(fruit of kOvai plant) take bath in the river; they are all wearing kumkumam on

their chests. This kAvEri is bringing in all that kumkumam paste, thus

transforming into a sacred river, providing divine fragrance to tirunAngUr

tiruppati.

 

We should remember the term, “kAvEri virajA seyam†(kAvEri resembles virajA

river – satAdhyAyi and dasAdhyAyi) here.

 

This reminds us also of SrI pAdukA sahasram – kAncana paddhatiH - 12th Slokam

–

 

'vahati salila keLI srasta colAvarodha-

stanakalaSa haridrApa'nka pi'ngAmavasthAm'.

 

(the golden shine of the pAdukA-s reflecting on the water resembles the turmeric

paste that is applied on the chests of the royal, cozha ladies and that is

dissolved in the river water, when they play in the river)

 

B. SrI PVP:

 

AzhvAr is pointing out that in addition to protecting gajendra AzhvAn, the

shepherds and the cows, emperumAn removed the danger that confronted His own

wife and is living in this divya dESam for everyone to enjoy.

 

kavvai vAL eyiRRu vaN pEi kadirmulai suvaittu – kaNNan drank from poisonous

chest of the wild-hearted demoness, who was loud and had very sharp teeth.

 

ilangai vavviya iDumbai tIrak kaDunkaNai turanda endai – My svAmi aimed His

arrows at the poverty ridden (poor because of the scarcity of good souls)

ilangai and completely destroyed it.

 

kovvaivAi magaLir kongaik kumkumam kazhuvip pOnda deyvanIr– river kAvEri

washes down the kumkumam that kOvai-lipped ladies wear on their chests and

becomes divine

 

kamazhum nAngUrt tirumaNik kUDattAnE – He is stationed at tirunAngUr

tirumaNikkUDam which has the divine fragrance from the kAvEri river.

 

River kAvEri is 'aprAkRtamAna tIrtham' (transcendental).

 

C. SrI UV:

 

This tirumaNikkUDam is the place chosen by emperumAn, who vanquishes evil women

and men and provides happiness to sAtvic women and men.

 

The three characteristics of a demoness are listed – bad mouth, teeth sharp

like swords and stone heart. She is coming in the form of yaSodhai; then, sweet

words and brilliant smile must have been mentioned. But, it is not pUtanA's

true form. He got rid of the evil woman and also destroyed the person who

insulted a good woman,

 

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Abbreviations:

PVP = periyavAccAn piLLai

UV = uttamUr vIrarAghavAcAriyAr

PBA = P.B. aNNangarAcAriyAr

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End of periya tirumozhi 4.5.2 on tirumaNikkUDam

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To be continued …..