HH Srimath InjimEdu Azhagiya Singar's Vaibhavam : Part III

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Dear SishyAs and AbhimAnis of Sri Matam:

 

Today adiyEn will cover the following Topic

relating to the vaibhavam of HH The 44th Pattam

InjimEttu Azhagia Singar :

 

4) Grantha NirmANam ( Creation of Sri Sookthis)

 

PERSPECTIVE ON GRANTHA NIRMAANAM BY AZHAGIYA SINGARS

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One of the high priority tasks of a SadAchAryan either in

the GrahasthAsramam or in the SanyAsAsramam is to compose monographs

on anushtAnam , SampradhAya Granthams, VyAkhyAnams and polemic

texts. Swamy Desikan demonstrated his commitments to this

important task through the blessing of 130 plus Sri Sookthis.

Some of the Azhagiya Singars have been prolific and the others

have produced a few granthams and instead focussed on either

training the Sri Matam SishyAs through KaalakshEpams on

Grantha ChAthushtyams and other AchArya Sri Sookthis or

engaged in Vaadhams with the Kudhrushtis , who intrepreted

Vedams incorrectly in their darsanams . Others simply

focussed on Nithya AaarAdhanam for MalOlan and travelled to

the villages, Towns and Cities (aasEthu HimAchala paryantham)

as per the command of MalOlan to perform Pancha SamskAram

and Prapatthi to sishyAs .

 

One of the most prolific composers of Granthams was SrivaNN

SaThakOpa Sriman NaarAyaNa YathIndhra MahA Desikan , the 2nd

Pattam Azhagiya Singar , who was hand picked by Sri AdhivaNN SaThakOpa

Jeeyar , the founder of Ahobila Matam .The 2nd Pattam Azhagiya Singar

responded to the command of his AchAryan and composed SIXTY

GRANTHAMS such as ThiruvArAdhana Kramam , NyAsa Dasaka

VyaakhyAnam , SandhyA vandhana BhAshyam et al.

 

The 11th Pattam Azhagiya Singar , who reigned for almost 39 years ,

preferred to use his time on the SimhAsanam to give extensive

KaalakshEpams on Darsana Granthams ( Grantha ChAthushtyams )

and SampradhAya Uthgranthams (commentaries related to them

by PoorvAchAryAs ).

 

The 17th Pattam Azhagiya Singar stayed on the Ahobila Mata

Peetam for nearly 36 years and he had the distinction of

conducting Sri Bhaashyam KaalakshEpam TWELVE times at

Srirangam BhAshyakArar Sannidhi , TEN times Bhagavath Vishayam

KaalkshEpam and FIFTEEN times KalakshEpam on Srimath

Rahasya Thraya Saaram for many sishyAs. We might recall

that Swamy Desikan in hislong life conducted Sri BhAshyam

KaalakshEpam thirty times during his life . This Azhagiya-

Singar did not author any granthams by himself.

 

The 27th Pattam Azhagiya Singar composed many NirNaya Granthams

to remove doubts that VaidhikAs had about anushtAnams

(Sri Jayanthi NirNayam , Sankramana NirNayam , Nathi RajO

DhOsha NirNayam , DasAvathAra dheerga Gaayathri NirNayam,

KaDi Soothra NirNayam and SravaNa DwAdasi NirNayam).

These NirNaya granthams are beacon lights to anushtAthAs

even today. He also composed original granthams , Kaavyams ,

and many SthOthra granthams ( DevarAja Sthavam , Sri LakshmI-

Nrusimha Sthavam ,Sri VeerarAghava Sthavam , Sri Nrusimha

MangaLam , VihagEswara Sthavam , SrivaNN SatAri Gadhyam et al).

He was indeed a renaissance AchAryan .

 

The 30th Pattam Azhagiya Singar composed many PallANDu/ Mangalam

granthams (for Sri Lakshmi Nrusimhan , SrinivAsan , AarAvamudhan ,

RanganAthan and GeethAchAryan/ParthasArathy PerumAL). He also blessed

us with a famous SuprabhAtham for MalOlan , which is recited every

morning before MalOlan's Silver Mantapam by Srimath Azhagiya Singars

and the GhOshti.AdiyEn has been blessed with ManthrOpadEsam from

a great grand daughter of this Azhagiya Singar , when adiyEn was

growing up at Oppiliappan Koil as a teen ager. This was a family

dhanam for the DevanArviLAgam family .

 

Atthipattu Azhagiya singar, the 34th Pattam Jeeyar was another

scholarly grantha NirmAthA . Some of his Sri Sookthis are:

(1) Commentary for Swamy Desikan's AdhikaraNa SaarAvaLi

(2) NyAya Vimsathi VyAkhyAnam (3) Brahma SoothrArtha Manjari

(4)DevarAja Sahasra GaNi DhaNdakam . This Azhagiya Singar was

a skilled poet in Tamil language as well . His Sri Sookthi ,

Sri Lakshmi Nrusimhan Adaikkala Patthu is recited even today

in Sri Sannidhi during NithyAnusandhAnam as well as in the homes

of Sri Matam SishyAs on all important occasions.

 

The 37 th Pattam Azhagiya Singar belonged to the Ilayavalli

Vamsam and was known as Saptha Tanthra Vaachaspathi .He composed

Sixteen granthams. Prominet among them are Sri AdhivaNN SaThakOpa

YathIndhra MahA Desika Vaibhavam , AchArya sapthathi , NyAya

SiddhAnjana Grantha Gandham and Swamy Desikan MahOthsava Vaibhavam

dealing with the Uthsavam at ThiruvahIndrapuram during PurattAsi

SravaNam.He spent an year at ThiruvahIndhrapuram and renovated

Swamy Desikan's ThirumALikai.

 

The 41st Pattam , SrivaNN SaThakOpa Sri Lakshmi Nrusimha SaThakOpa

YathIndhra MahA Desikan is important for us since He is the One,

who initiated Sri InjimEdu RanganAthAcchAr Swamy into SanyAsa

Aasramam and appointed latter as the 42nd pattam Jeeyar. He was

a great Vedic scholar in his own rite. The 41st Pattam Azhagiya Singar

was known as Kaarukuricchi Azhagiya Singar and blessed us with

the following granthams: (1) Sri Lakshmi Nrusimha DhyAna sOpAnam

modelled after that of Sri Bhagavath DhyAna SopAnam (2) Sri Veda-

PaadhAsIthi sthavam (3) Sri DasAvathAra Veda Paadha Sthavam

(4) Sri Nithya PrArTanA KaarikAvaLi (5) Sri AchArya DinacharyA

and (6) Sri Mahaa Lakshmi Gadhyam dealing with Atthipattu

Azhagiya Singar's Vaibhavam .

 

GRANTHAMS OF HH THE 42nd AZHAGIYA SINGAR

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With the rich background of the compositions of the predecessor

Azhagiya Singars going back to five centuries , HH The 42nd

Azhagiya Singar blessed us with the following 8 Granthams besides

Introductions to Tatthva Deekai , 41st Pattam Azhagiya Singar's

sathAbhishEka Malar and many articles in VedAntha DhIpikai ,

the predecssor journal for Sri Nrusimha PriyA founded by him .

The 8 Granthams authored by HH The 42nd Pattam Jeeyar are:

 

(1) NyAsa NishtA MeemAmsA . He had performed Bhara SamarpaNam

before Kanchi VaradarAja PerumAL as a Grahasthar and the rites

were performed by SrimushNam SvarNam Swamy . (2) Ukthi NishtAbharaNam

and (3) UkthiNishtAbharaNOthyOdham dealing with the Ukthi Nishtai

in practise at Sri Sannidhi (4) GeethArtha Sangraha VyAkhyAnam

(5) KritthikA DhIpa Kaala NirNayam (6) UpAkarma Kaala NirNayam,

which came in handy this year , when there was so much confusion

on the determination of the dates for the UpAkarmA at different

parts of the world for Sri Matam SishyAs (70 Sri RahasyathrayA

VyAkhyA:Sri Saara BOdhini and (8) VisishtAdhvaitha VedAntha KOsam .

The many talented SishyAs , who performed KaalakshEpam under

this great AchAryan ( Prakrutham Srimath Azhagiya Singar,

Purisai KrishNamAcchAr Swamy , PerukkAraNai Swamy and others)

have captured and stored the great insights of this MahA Desikan

and blessed us with their own Sri Sookthis .

 

In the next posting , adiyEn would cover HH 42nd Jeeyar's

SanyAsa Aasrama SveekaraNam , PattAbhshEkam and Karthavya-

PraTig~nyai (Vows about the Things to be done during His reign

as Sri Matam Jeeyar ) just as AchArya RaamAnujA vowed to do

to fulfill the last wishes of Swamy AlavandhAr.

 

Srimath NaarAyaNa YathIndhra MahA Desikan Thiruvadi,

Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil varadAchAri SatakOpan