Book Review:: Paasurams on PuL Araian

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Book review:

 

Paasurams on PuL (Bird) Araiyan (King) Sri Garudazvar:

 

Collecting all the paasurams related to Sri Garudazvar from various scriptures

this Book by Madras Advocate Sriman U.Ve. Dindukkal Ramasvami Iyengar was

released on Sri Deva perumal's Garudothsavam and distributed to all Bhakthas. It

came for our view too. we enjoyed it immensely. All the paasurams regarding and

related to garuthman is collected and displayed in complete order. If only the

author had chosen to print the phrases containing Garuthman the size of the book

might have been smaller. Sri S Pundarikaksham Nayudu owner of chennai Modern

Press who printed this book with immense bhakthi, taking into consideration, the

user friendliness of the book for the Bhathas, has printed complete paasurams in

proper order, this is very much laudable.

 

Azhvar Paasurams (103), Desika Prabhandam paasurams(3), Solingapuram

Dhottayacharya's Slokha panchakam are in this collection. There are some errors

in the slokha panchakam. we beleive that they will be corrected in the next

print. Also, Sri Kulasekhara Azvar's paasuram " Kolarntha nedum saarngam koonal

sangam ... kathi karudan enrum venri kadum paravai " , and Sri Poigai Azvar's

paasuram " aduththa kadum ... vallaLan kai koduththa " and some other paasurams

are left out, we believe that they will be added in the next print.

 

The person has done a great service by collecting and giving us as a book

format, sri Ramasvami Iyengar's fantastic taste on one side, the act of he

adhering to old works as is, melts my heart. I dont have heart to leave it, thus

am digressing a bit here. In 1944 a great scholar gem relased a commentary on

Sri Desika Prabhandam. He in his prologue (page 4) tried to change an old text

sequence in one of the desika prabhandam named Navaratna Maalai, paasuram two.

It goes thus

quote "

" Paniya Visaivil thisai mukan than " this is a wrong text which got mixed in the

old print. the word " Thisai mukan " refers only to brahma, there is no way that

he needs to be referrd here. It should have been " Dasa mukan " to refer Ravana.

This wrong text (disai mukan) has come in the next 6 reprints, 2 copies and 2

commentary books. Thus removing these wrong texts and giving new correct texts

can be found in this new print

" unquoute

 

There has been a lot of famous debates on this. the word " Thisai " refers to

number 4, at the same time it refers to number 10 also. we can get examples for

this directly from Sri Desika Stotram (Disaasu dasasu.. Dasavathara Stotram).

Thus we proved and established that Svami Desikan used the same word " Thisai

mukan " for Ravana, and correcting Sri Desika Srisookthi is wrong. however

pandithas from Thiruppathi, Thirupapuliyur, and thiruvayindra puram, taking the

wrong side, reared the debate. This sad debate took a lot of days. Now by

printing this book sri D.Ramasvami Iyengar has taken the position of justness

and has demolished the debate. Since there is text related to garuda in this

paasuram he had to print this complete paasuram. By showing that this as the

only text " paniya visaivil thisai mukan than mudikal paththu aruththanai " and

not even showing the new text as an alternate text, he has printed this book

beautifully. He has also shown the original name of the prabhandam by taking out

imaginative name of " Nava Mani Maalai " , and putting the correct " Nava Ratna

Maalai " . The quality of ultimate old reference of this smallbook author is most

laudable, and we happily got a chance to laud that here.

 

- 60 years back in Sri Ramanujan Magazine Sri Kanchi Svami (Vikruthi

10-Jun-1950)