RE: moovAyirappadi references

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SrI Anand: A few observations...

 

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> Anand K Karalapakkam [kgk]

> Wednesday, August 01, 2001 3:26 AM

> Malolan Net

> Re: swAmi deSikan - founder of SrI parakAla maTham

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> Original Text : " Bramhatantra Svatantra JIyar-um

> thiruvE~nkaTamuDayAn n^iyaman^appaDikkuth thirumalaiyil

> oru **maDam** kaTTuvitthu adil dESikanai thirupratishTai

> seiduvaitthu aarAditthukkoNDu ....... " . <3000 PaDi>

 

Often swAmideSikan himself is referred to as thiruvEnkatam

udayAn; even otherwise it appears that a maTham structure

(presumably with rajagopuram, etc.) was constructed at the

behest of SreenivAsaperumAL himself.

 

> 3. Successors of this JIyar added " Bramhatantra Svatantra "

> as their title/name/guruparampara for signifying this. It is to

> be recalled that SwAmi DESikan awarded the title " Bramhatantra

> Svatantra " to his disciple SrI PEraruLALan JIyar, after his

> victory over a great scholar of advaita. Hence he was

> addressed by all as " Bramhatantra Svatantra JIyar " itself.

> This Muth was not named as " SwAmi DESikan Muth "

 

adiyEn believes *most* of the maThams in SrIbhAshyakArar's

tradition are NOT named after their founders - e.g. Ahobila

maTham, vAnamAmalai maTham, ANDavan ASramam, etc.

 

> 4. The name " ParakAla Muth " got attached with this Muth only

> at a later stage of its history. The 21st HH JIyar is the

> reverred Peria-ParakAla SwAmi who has written commentaries for

> 4000 Divya Prabandham {Many are not available}. He was very

> popular in his times and all the JIyars after Peria-ParakAla

> JIyar added " ParakAla " to their name. Para-kAla means

> " Yama to other Philosophies " . Hence, this guruparampara

> has been known as " Bramhatantra-Svatantra ParakAla Muth " .

 

According to prakritam parakAlaswAmi, the title " parakAlan "

was accorded to brahmatantra swatantra himself, due to his

prowess in debating opponents - " parA~nkAla iti parakAla: "

PeriyaparakAlaswAmi (21st pattam) was not only a drAvidaveda

bhAshyakAra, but also a chatusSAstravidwan and a master of

the granthachAtuShtayam.

 

> 5. The Muth Headquarters shifted to Mysore from Thirumalai during

> 17th JIyar's time or so.

 

I believe this was actually during the reign of periya

parakAlaswAmi of 21st pattam. It should be quite easy

to clarify this, since it is part of recorded history.

It was the Wodeyar rulers of Mysore who invited 21st

parakAlaswAmi to grace their kingdom as rAjaguru.

 

So it was in periyaparakAlaswAmi's reign (1676-1737),

that parakAlamaTham moved down to SrIrangapatnam near

Mysore, and its maThAdipathis became rajagurus. After

the fall of Tipu Sultan, parakAlamaTham reached Mysore,

where it has its headquarters opposite the Jaganmohan

palace even today.

 

Thus parakAlamaTham began receiving the royal patronage

of the Wodeyars; a tradition which today exists only in

symbolic form (recently SrI SrIkAntadutta narasimharAja

wodeyar, the prince of this dynasty and his pathni were

present at the inaguration of laxmihayagriva samudAya

bhavan in Mysore, where they received perumAL teertham

from parakAlaswAmi - still their rAjaguru).

 

> But, JIyar refused it as per his own commitments as Ahobila

> Muth AchArya {to perform sanchAram as per the orders of

> Malolan} etc. Instead, JIyar taking personal concern, appointed

> a capable successor for the ParakAla Muth to continue its

> tradition of aarAdhana to Lord HayagrIva. This gives more

> closer link/bond between these two paramparas. GhaTikASatam

> AmmAL, the kAlakshEpa AchArya of SrI AthivaN SaThakOpa JIyar

> underwent kAlakshEpam under Bramhatantra-Svatantra JIyar.

> This is the original bondage between these two Guruparamparas.

 

And of course, it was tritIya brahmatantra swatantra jIyar

who, in his moovAryiarappadi - concluded with a description

on the vaibhavam of SrI AdivaNN SaThakOpa jeeyar. Indeed

these two magnificient institutions of parakAla and ahobila

maThams have stood for almost 7 centuries now, as testimony

to swAmideSikan's unparalleled legacy.

 

vAzhi vyaakhyaamuddrak-kai

thooppul thiruvEnkatam udayAn thiruvadigaLE SaraNam

 

-adiyEn

Srinath C.