thiru adhyayana sEvai - part 24 - paNitthuLigal pOdum iarvu puLLigaL !

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Srimadh Azhagiya singar thiruvadikaLE saraNam

Sri RanganAyikA samEtha Sri RangarAjan thiruvadikaLE saraNam

 

thiru adhyayana sEvai - part 24 - paNithuLigal iarvugaL pOdum puLLi !

 

Dear bAgawathAs,

 

eeratthil icchai parantha mAmarangaL

thooratthil pacchai niraintha panthalgaL

paNitthuLigal pOdum iravup puLLigaL

arangatthil kathirkOlam kAnbathu arithu.

 

meaning:

The wet breeze is brushing the mango trees. The mangoes are ripe

and the vAsam that is coming past these trees will creat an

icchai in everyone's mind. However these mango trees have their

own icchai. They want their yield to be seved to Sri Arangan.

They took thier birth in Srirangam only to serve Sri Arangan.

(One can easily know these fragrance of mAmbazham when they

pass mAmbazha sAlai). On the far side near the kauveri banks the

green trees are all appearing as if they have made a pacchai or

emerald canopy for welcoming the bhaktALs to Srirangam for the

uthsavams. The woman known as night time is beginning to make a

kOlam using small droplets of water or the dew. But she is shy

to see the Sun and leaves the kOlam incomplete. The Sun is

feeling guilty that the kOlam is incomplete on the streets of Sri

rangam. PerumAL's purAppAdu has to come through these veethis and

all these kOlams have to welcome perumAL. So the Sun decides to

complete the kOlams using its own morning rays knwon as kAlai

kiraNangaL. This is a rare scene only can be seen in Srirangam.

 

Uthsavam details:

" While WE were seated on the Sri chEra pAndiya throne or

simmAsanam placed above the couch of Sri HarihararAyar and below

the pearl canopy of Sri Sundara pAndiyar in the Azhagiya

maNavALan thiru maNdapam and listening to the verses of Kaliyan

(Sri thirumangai AzhwAr) the chiefs of the temple servants or

kainkarya barAL and the Sri vaishnava dignitaries approached US

and appealed to US that WE should repeat the honour done to our

Sri SadakOpan (Sri namAzhwAr) once before. Hence WE are sending

our used mantle, sandal paste, and garlands, (to Sri nammAzhwAr)

through thalayiduvAn " .

 

The sthAnikA now commands that " Write it, read it again " . The

epistle is written by a scribe on an " Olai " or a palm leaf and is

tied to the forehead of the thalaiyudvAn. It is treated as a holy

crown and the rituals of coronation or pattAbhishEkam are briefly

conducted. The epistle is this carried to the shrine of Sri nam

AzhwAr and handed over to Sri nammAzhwAr. The thalaiyiduvAn is

the chief of the temple kainkarya barALs and along with him all

the other temple servants or kainkarya baraLS including bearers

also goto the shrine of Sri nammAzhwAr. The thalaiyiduvAn or the

sEnAthipathy of all kainkarya baraLs comes back with a priest who

carry Sri nammAzwAr back to the mahA mandapam using his hands.

This is known as kai thala sEvai. This ends the thiru kArthigai

month festivals. Next is thiru adhyayana ursavam.

 

Srimadh Azhagiya singar thiruvadikaLE saraNam

Sri RanganAyikA samEtha Sri RangarAjan thiruvadikaLE saraNam

thiruk kudanthai Rengarajan

 

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