maNimADakkOvil(Periya tirumozhi 3.8.2) – tirunAngUr divyadEsam

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maNimADakkOvil(tirumangai AzhvAr’s Periya tirumozhi 3.8) – tirunAngUr

divyadEsam

 

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SrImad ANDavan tiruvaDigalE SaraNam,

kalyANi kRshNamAcAri

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maNimADakkOvil - Periya tirumozhi 3.8.2 mudalait tanimA:

 

mudalait tanimA muraN tIra anRu

mudunIrt taDattuc cenkaN vEzham uyya

vidalait talaic cenRu adaRkE udavi

vinai tIrtta ammAn iDam viNNaNavum

padalaik kapOdattu oLi mADa neRRip

pavaLak kozhumkAla painkAl puRavam

madalait talai men pEDai kUDu nAngUr

maNimADak kOvil vaNangu en mananE!

 

A. SrImad tirukkuDandai ANDavan:

 

Not available.

 

B. SrI PVP:

 

anRu – that day,

 

mudunIrt taDattu mudalai tanimA muraN tIra – in order to remove the great

animosity of the crocodile that existed in the age old waters of the pond

 

cenkaN vEzham uyya – and in order to let the red-eyed gajendran live;

elephants do not have red eyes. In spite of the elephant's great strength, it

is useless in water and gajendran's eyes are red from the futile efforts of

escaping from the crocodile.

 

vidalait talai – as soon as the elephant cried his heart out in great pain

 

adaRkE cenRu udavi – emperumAn arrived at this place Himself; the elephant was

troubled that he was not able to offer to Him, the flower he had plucked; but,

He accepted the offer of the flower. In tiruvAimozhi 7.10.8, nammAzhvAr talks

about 'Anaiyin nenjiDar' (the elephant's distress) - “poigaiyin vAi, ninRu

tan nIL kazhal Ettiya Anaiyin nenjiDar tIrtta pirAnâ€.

 

vinai tIrtta ammAn iDam – relieved the elephant from its age old karmA; this

is that svAmi's tiruppati

 

viNNaNavum padalaik kapOdattu - in the tall houses with kalasam-s which reach

the heavens, the pigeons form their habitat

 

oLi mADa neRRi madalait talai – in the front portions of the brilliantly

shining corners of these pillars,

 

pavaLak kozhumkAla painkAl puRavam – pigeons that have coral-hued feet with

toes

 

men pEDaikUDu - enjoy mingling with their counterparts

 

nAngUr maNimADak kOvil – in tirunAngUr maNimADakkOvil

 

vaNangu en mananE! - Oh my mind! Worship this emperumAn.

 

C. SrI PBA:

 

mudalait tanimA muraN – so many elephants visited that pond to drink water.

That crocodile did not trouble any of those elephants who did not know any

bhagavad vishayam and were concerned only about nourishment of their own bodies;

gajendran was religiously offering a lotus flower for emperumAn every day in

that pond and had come with that purpose again; since the crocodile chose to

harm this devotional elephant, AzhvAr is calling this crocodile 'mudalait tani

mA muraN'; it was his extreme wickedness to harm bhagavad bhakta-s.

 

vidalait talaic cenRu – one meaning is – when the elephant was sad and

shivering with sorrow that the flower could not be offered to emperumAn that

day, He arrived in a flash.

 

Another meaning is – in saMskRtam, 'vi' denotes bird; so 'vidalai' refers to

the king of the birds, namely, garuDan. He came to the elephant's rescue,

mounted on garuDan.

 

kapOdattu – 'kapodam' in saMskRtam refers to pigeon. But, the term is also

used to denote the living spots of the pigeons as 'kabodam', 'kabOdi', 'kabOdai'

etc.

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Abbreviations:

PVP = periyavAccAn piLLai

UV = uttamUr vIrarAghavAcAriyAr

PBA = P.B. aNNangarAcAriyAr

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End of periya tirumozhi 3.8.2 on maNimADakkOvil

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To be continued …..