Who is the ThAyAr On the left chest region of Lord VenkatEsa ?

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SrI:

 

 

Brugum vikhanasam vandhE Mareechim KaSyapam TathA

Atrim cha janakam KrishNam VikhAnasa SirOmaNim

---Taniyan for Vikhanasa BhagavAn

Dear SrI VenkatEsa BhakthAs:

 

Recently , there was a question about

the identity of the PirAtti on Lord SrinivAsA's

right VakshasTalam , who recieves VakshasTala

Lakshmi AarAdhanam with 16 of Her

names in the Mornings at Thirumala .

 

The other question was : Who is the other

Lady on the left side of the Lord' s chest ?

 

As background , There are three Laksmis

( SrI Devi , BhOga Lakshmi and Veera Lakshmi)

in the VaikhAnasa Aagamam.

 

All these three are said to originate from

SrIvatsam on the Lord's chest .

 

The PramANam is :

SrIvatsAtEva sakalAn-jagiyrE dhivya lAnchanam

 

-- Passage From Sri VaikAnasa ArchanA

navaneetham 5.28 & 29

 

According to another PramANam , all the three have their own sTAnams :

Srivatsam yOgalakshmeessyAth

bhOga-Lakshmeeccha parSvayO: VeeralaksmIr viSEshaNa

PruTak bhavanam AaSrithaa

--VaikhAnasa Kaasyapa KaaNDam : 38th section

Yoga Lakshmi always resides in His chest

( ahalakillEn) .She is worshipped with 4 names:

SrI , Dhruthi , PavithrI , PramOdhAyini

in VaikhAnasam ( VikhAnasa SrI Kalpam).

BhOga Lakshmi is on both sides of

the Lord as Ubhaya NaacchimAr.

All the three ( Lord and His Ubhaya

NaacchimArs are worshipped together

with their own Sookthis :

dEvyO: prathyupachAranthu

dEvEna sahachAcharEth

SrI-BhUmibhyAm viSEshENa

sookthAbhyAm pruTak archayEth

 

-- VaikhAnasa Bhrugu samhithA

 

Veera Lakshmi is in Her separate temple

and She is worshipped First in our sampradhAyam.

SrI PadmAvathi ThAyAr in TirucchAnUr is

the Veeralakshmi for Lord VenkatEsa .

Sri Padmavathi is the other Lakshmi

on the left side of the chest of SrI VenkatEsar Moolavar .

On His head , the Lord of Thirumala

adorns the tall Kireetam presented by AakAsa Raajan

( His Father in Law ) in His Moola BhEram form

and cherishes his daughter ( MahA Lakshmi

avathAram) on His left Chest . On His right hand

side of the chest is MahA Lakshmi ( Yoga Lakshmi)

as Bhimbha-Prathibimbham . In both forms ,

they are His Iswaryam and His Sankalpa SahakAris .

NamO SrI VenkatEsAya ,

DaasOsmi , V.Sadagopan