irAmAnusa nORRu anthAthi - part 7 - nAlAyiratthin Athiyum anthamum..

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Sri thiru arangatthu amudhanAr thiruvadikaLE saraNam

Sri Ramanujar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Sri thAyAr samEtha Sri AdikEsava perumAL thiruvadikaLE saraNam

Sri RanganAyikA samEtha Sri RangarAjan thiruvadikaLE saraNam

 

irAmAnusa nORRu anthAthi - part 7 - nAlAyiratthin Athiyum anthamum..

 

Dear bAgawathAs,

 

Sri thiru arangatthu amuthanAr delivered this precious grantham

spontaneously using this abborva " yanthram " or meter known as

" kattaLai kalith thuRai " as ordained by his sadachAryAL Sri

kooratthu AzhwAr. The other few " nools " that are delivered in

praise of the AchArya purushALs are, 1. Sri madura kavi AzhwArs

" kaNNinun siRutthAmbu " on Sri nammAzwAr, 2. Sri kamba nAttu

AzhwAr's " Sri Sadagopar AnthAthi " on Sri nammAzwAr, 3. " Sri pillai

anthAthi " of Swami dEsika prabhandham.

 

Only 3 are named after a person and they are

 

1. " Sri Sadagopar anthAthi " ,

2. " Sri irAmAnusa nooRRu anthAthi " and

3. " Sri pillai anthAthi " .

 

Sri Sadagopar anthAthi has the uniqueness of directly being

delivered by Sri Kamban on the request of Sri RanganAthar HIMself.

On the day of the arangEtram or debut rendering of Sri Kamba

rAmAyanam, It is said that Sri Kamban went to periya perumAL

sannithi and sought the the blessings of the Lord. Sri Ranganthar

asked him " nam sadagopanaip paRRip pAdinAyA? " ie.. " did you

deliver any grantham about our Sadagopan (or nammAzhwAr)? " . Sri

Kamban took such conversation as the divine command and then

delivered " Sri Sadagopar anthAthi " as ordained by Sri Ranganathar.

Sri thiru arangatthu amuthanAr also accepted the " Angyai " of Sri

Kooratthu AzhwAr and delivered this grantham on " Sri irAmAnusar " .

 

Only a few other granthams is said to have this bAgyam of " nErmuga

sARRal " . The other nools are the first three anthAthis. In thiruk

kOviloor " puzhak kadai " , (puzhangum kidai or " puzhangum adaiveLi " ,

ie the strip or the passage between the threshold or the main

entrance of the house and the inner living hall) when all the

three muthal AzhwArs namely " Poygai AzhwAr " , " boothatthu AzhwAr "

and " pEy AzhwAr " were thickly packed and were resting from a hale

and thunder storm, First a jyOthi appeared between them and Sri

poygai AzhwAr delivered one pasuram known as " vaiyamE thagaLiyA "

on seeing this aruL perum jyOthi as the emperumAn. Then they all

felt their inner soul lit up with para nyAnam and literally saw

Sriman nArAyana as their antharyAmin and all prevading. At this

time, Sri boothatthu AzhwAr delivered a pasuram known as " anbE

thagaLiyA.. " . Then, Sriyapathi Sriman nArAyanan appeared as the

divya dhampathi with all his pachAyutham and Sri pEy AzhwAr

delivered a pAsuram " thiruk kaNdEn.. " , on having this prathyaksha

darsanam (*). These three verses are the first three verses of the

nAlAyira divya prabhandham in the chronological order. Though in

the traditional rendering " thirup pallAndu " is the first, as per

the chronology these three pasurams of muthal AzhwArs are the

first and preceding in the previous yugA. The muthal AzhwArs went

on to deliver 99 more pasurams each, afterwards.

 

These verses have the sAkshAthkAram & the validity from Sriyapathi

emperumAn & pirAtti as they were listening to them directly when

these were delivered. That is how this holy grantham of 4000

divya prabhandham began.

 

After several centuries past, Sri thiru arangatthu amuthanAr was

residing in a thennam sOlai (palm tree garden) near to the " thiru

mathil " (the great compound wall) at " adaya vaLainthAn " or " adaiya

vaLanchAn " (the 7th and the final circuit or street surrounding

Sri Ranganathar and Sri Ranganayaki thAyAr) and was delivering

this aboorva grantham sri irAmAnusa nooRRu anthAthi, namely the

last of the 4000. At that time " as commanded " by Sri Ranganathar

and thAyar, Sri emperumAnAr (ie Sri irAmAnusar HIMself) and Sri

Kooratthu AzhwAr arrived there with their disciples Sri embAr and

other 4 shishyALs. That time Sri thiru arangatthu amuthanAr was

about completing the 105th pAsuram " sezhum thirai pAr kadal.. " . On

Seeing Sri emperumAnAr and his AchAryAL appearing with their 5

shishyALs, Sri thiru arangatthu amuthanAr was overwhelmed and

poured out his feelings and delivered the last three 3 pasurams of

Sri irAmAnusa nooRRu anthAthi ex-tempore and infront of them

spontaneosuly.

 

In many ways this is similar to Sriyapathi perumAL and thAyar (2

of them) and their pachAyutham (5 of them) appearing when the

first 3 pasurams were delivered. This time it was emperumAnAr

instead of emperumAn (or Sri irAmAnusar). Sri KooratthuAzwAn was

in place of thAyAr as he was his AchAryAL and mediatrix and as

well as " perum kAruNyar " as similar to thAyAr. Sri irAmAnusar and

Sri koorratthu AzhwAr were the two divine couple. The 5 shishyALs

are similar to the pachAyuthams. The appearance of sriyapahti with

panchAyutham gave the validity and prathyakshanam for the

beginning of 4000 and they stood as the " rakshai " at the

beginning. Sameway, the 4000 ended with these last 3 pasurams.

ie., These 3 pasurams were also validated by the prathyaksha

darshanam of Sri emperumAnAr, Sri Koorathu AzhwAr and their

shishyALs. Sri emperumAnAr, Sri AzhwAn and shishyALs stood as the

" rakshai " this time around, and provided the protection for the

4000 at the end of it. (**)

 

Srimadh Azhagiya singar thiruvadikaLE saraNam

Sri thiru arangatthu amudhanAr thiruvadikaLE saraNam

Sri Ramanujar thiruvadigaLE saraNam

Sri thAyAr samEtha Sri AdikEsava perumAL thiruvadikaLE saraNam

Sri RanganAyikA samEtha Sri RangarAjan thiruvadikaLE saraNam

 

thiruk kudanthai Sampath Rengarajan

 

note: (*) - Please refer to the excellent postings of Sri

V. Sadagopan in the following url on muthal AzhwArs vaibavam.

http://www2.be.com/~mani/bhakti/archives/aug97/./0012.html

http://www2.be.com/~mani/bhakti/archives/oct98/./0177.html

http://www2.be.com/~mani/bhakti/archives/oct98/./0182.html

http://www2.be.com/~mani/bhakti/archives/oct98/./0186.html

 

(**) - Similar to the first 3 pasurams of muthal azhwArs, periya

perumAL Sri Ranganathar and thAyar ended this irAmAnusa nooRRu

anthAthi with the last 3 pasurams. This gives a good understanding

that this grantham is indeed a part of 4000 as against some belief

on contrary.

 

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