KurEsar's Sri VaradarAja Sthavam: Part VI

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Dear BhakthAs:

 

In the previous posting ,I referred to

the bestowal of Jn~Ana Chakshus to KurEsar

by Lord VaradarAjan .

 

Over the period of time , Varadhan has blessed

many with eye sight after they lost that faculty

to earn the Title of " Kacchi Tanil KaNN Kodukkum

PerumAL " by Swamy Desikan.

 

In his 35th slOkam of Sri VaradharAja Sthavam ,

KurEsar has explained that the eyes of the Lord

of Kaanchi are : " karuNArasavaahi veekshaNOrmE:

prEma-maya pravAha BhAja: dhrukchala sindhu: "

( That large ocean of eyes with the waves of DayA

and flow of deep vAthsalyam from them for

His BhakthAs).

 

Here are a few instances from PurANams that summarize

who else besides KurEsar had received the boon of

eye sight from the boon-granting Varadhan :

 

1) Haritha-vArana Bhruthyar/Pacchai VaaraNa PerumAL

ThoNdar, the Grand father of Thirukkacchi Nampi :

He was blind from birth.KurEsar himself refers to him

in Sundara Baahu Sthavam (SlOkam 126). This MahAn , who

devoted his life to the kaimkaryam of Poovirunthavalli

PerumAL (pacchai VaaraNar) had the greatest desire to

have the darsanam of PeraruLAL a perumAL atleast ONCE

in his life.The great boon-giving Varahdar invited

Pacchai-VaaraNa PerumAL ThoNdar to come to Hasthigiri

with his grandson, Thirukkacchi Nampi and blessed

him with eye sight ( Karigiri Varadha! HarithavArana

Bhruthya samAhvayam apoorvkAm dhrusam alampaya yEva hi?).

 

2) There were twins by the name of Sankar-Vihithar,

who were known for their scholarship on Dharama

Saasthrams. Vihithar was blind from birth. Through

worship of Varadhan , he was blessed with eye sight.

 

3). Anthaka kavi VeerarAghava MudaliyAr gained his

eye sight as well through the boon-giving prowess

of Varadhan . He was a great Tamil poet.

 

4). ArasANIppAlai VenkatAdhvari was a great Sanskrit

Scholar and poet. His eye sight began to fade at

one stage in his life. He composed 200 slOkams in

praise of Varadhan in his VishNu Sahsaram and got

his eye sight restored. These 1000 slOkams of

VishNu sahasram have 200 slOkams each on the following

5 dhivya desa EmperumAns: Sri RanganAthan, Thirumalaiappan,

VaradarAjan , Sundarabaahu of ThirumAlirum Cholai

and Thirukkudanthai AarAvamudhan. We have today the 200

slOkams of Vishnu Sahsaram dealing with Varahdan known

as SravaNAnandham alone available to us . This great

poet from whose vamsam , VaikuntaVaasi SevA Swamy arose(?),

is also the author of Lakshmi Sahsram on PerumdEvi ThAyAr

of Kanchipuram .

 

5) Dheeragatamas Maharishi , the son of Sage Udhathyar

who had lost his eyes even as an embryo due to the curse of

Bruhaspathi worshipped Lord Varadhan after birth and got

his eye sight restored according to ChEtlUr SrivathsAngAcchAr

Swamy .

 

Thus from Maha Rishi's times to that of AlavandhAr's time

and onto KurEsA's time , Varadhan has blessed many with

eye sight after they lost that faculty and blessed them

with His darsana SoubhAgyam. AchArya RaamAnujA , who

had received the AaaRU Vaarthais from Lord VaradarAjan

through Thirukkacchi Nampi , was fully aware of Varadhan's

history of restoring eye sight (Maamsa and Jn~Ana

Chakshus)to those , who have lost them .Hence , AchArya

RaamAnujA took his prime disciple to Varadhan's sannadhi

to seek the restoration of eye sight by Varadhan.Out of

that visit arose the dhivya Sookthi of Sri VaradrAja Sthavam.

 

Atthigiri AruLALap PerumAL VanthAr

aanai pari thErin mEl Azhagar vanthAr

KACCHITANIR KANN-KODUKKUM PERUMAAL VANTHAAR

Karutha varam tharu Dhaivap perumAL VanthAr

Mutthi mazhai pozhiyum muhil VaNNar VanthAr

MoolamEyena Olam ida VallAr vanthAr

UttharavEdhikkuLLE UthitthAr vanthAr

Umbar Thozhum kazhaludayAr VanthAr ThaamE

 

--Swamy Desikan's Meyviratha Maanmiyam: Paasuram 17

 

(meaning): That Lord standing on top of Hasthigiri came.

That most beautiful One came on the back of elephant ,

horse and thEr. That parama DayALu , who blessed BhakthAs

with eye sight arrived. That generous One , who grants

the boons sought by His dear devotees has now arrived .

That Lord with the hue of rainy season cloud pouring

down the torrential rain of Moksham has indeed arrived .

That One , who responded in great haste to the aartha dhvani

(lamentation and sorrowful cry ) of GajEndhran (GajEndhra

Varadhan ) has come now. That One , who arose out of

the Uttara Vedhi of Brahma on top of Hasthigiri has

arrived to stay.That Lord , DevarAjan , whose holy feet

are forever worshipped by Nithya Sooris has certainly

arrived now.

 

Sri VaradarAja ParabrahmaNE nama:

Daasan, Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SatakOpan