Guest guest Posted September 23, 2007 Report Share Posted September 23, 2007 SrimathE RamAnujAya Nama: Srimath VaraVaraMunayEA Nama: PurattAsi Sarvajith AzvAr 12 AchAryA 2 Sri Vedanthadesikan-PuraTTASi – ThiruvONam SrimAn vEnkaTanAthhAryaH kavithArkkika kEsarI vEdAnthAchAryavaryOmE sannidhatthAm sadAhridi Swami vedantha desikan was born on 1269 CE at Thuppul near kAnchipuram as a son of Ananta Suri and Totaramba. He mastered all the sasthras under his acharya kiDambi appuLLAr. His level of upasana and devotion is well known. In 1323 CE when srirangam was sacked, it was Sri Vedanthadesika who saved the two small kids of Sruthaprakasika bhattar along with the masterpiece Sribhashyam and its Commentary Sruthaprakasika. Without his immaculate effort on this we might have lost our cornerstone work of Srivaishnava philosophy. He ascended to paramapadam on 1369 CE and the place where he breathed his last is still under debate. Guruparamparas state he was chiefly involved in restarting adhyayanothsava in kanchi as well as in Srirangam. He was the only one after ParaSarabhattar to owe the title, Sarvathanthra swathanthra. His works form a vast ocean and there was not even a single field left in the Manipravala-Tamizh-Sanskrit language without being touched by vedanthadesika. He authored the masterpiece Rahasyathrayasaram which is the most wide read work and forms part of rahasyathraya. The Sriramayanam 'abhayapradana saram' is a work containing the essence of sriramayana. Out of innumerable Tamil prabandhams adikkalappatthu and adhikarasangraham stands in a wonderful position. The works adhikarana saravali and thathva tiKKA compliment the Sribhashyam and sruthaprakasika along with SathadUshani ( and paramadha Bangam in tamil) elaborating the points against other religions. He wrote supplementary commentary to bhagavad githa bhashyam of Emperumanar known as Thathparyachandrika. Apart from that he has done a bhashyam for chathusloki and sthothrarathnam of swami alavanthar. He wrote a commentary known as githartha sangraha raksha for the githarthasangraham of alavanthar. Apart from the innumerable tamil prabandhams, and Sanskrit sthothras AchyuthaSathakam- written with a nayaki bhava on Devanathan of Thiruvahendirapuram stands in a special status. It was written completely in Prakrith – for which if he himself had not given a Sanskrit version we would never dared to understand it. Apart from that, isavasya Upanishad bhashyam, munivahana bhogam – a commentary to amalanadipiran, sampradaya parisuddhi, nyAya siddhAnjanam, dramidhopanishad thathparya rathnavali, dramidopanishad sara (both on thiruvaymozhi), works on nyasam etc are of remarkable nature. The works PAdukA sahasram, SubhAshitha nIvI and yAdavAbhyudayam are indeed mahakAvyAs.. The SankalpasUryOdayam and hamsa sandesa are two dramas. Pages and pages are not enough to write about this great acharya and he was always at the footsteps of our poorvacharyas trying to lift us from the samsara. Swami himself says about his attachments to his acharyas in munivahana bhogam ven piriya viri thirai neer vayyatthulle vedanthariyanentru iyamba nintrom nAmm PeriyOmallOm nAmm nanRum theethum namakkuraippAr uLarenRu naaduvOmE Varavaramuni dAsargaL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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