Thebetween Different Azhagiya Singars with partiuclar reference to DeavanAr ViLAgam Azhagiya Singar

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Dear BhakthAs and AbhimAnis of Sri Matam :

 

A question came up from an erudite reader

regarding the links between the HH The 43rd Azhagiya Singar's

family and its links to other Azhagiya Singars .

I had commented : " It is all in the Family " some what

lightly.What I had in mind needs a little elaboration :

 

1) The 27th pattam Azhagiya Singar: Sri VeerarAghava

YathIndhra MahA Desikan (AasthAnam : October 1 , 1829

to August 17, 1831).This Jeeyar is the son of

HH The 26th Azhagiya Singar , Sri RanganAtha YathIndhra

MahA Desikan (AasthAnam : Nov 21, 1811 to October 12, 1828).

At the time of His ascent to Sri Vaikuntam on August 17, 1831

HH The 27th pattam Azhagiya Singar asked the GaddhavAL RaajA ,

His dear Sishyan to help select His successor. For an year

and 11 months after HH The 27th Azhagiya Singar's ascent

to Sri Vaikuntam , there were no candidates for the Peetam.

 

Now , coming back to HH The 27th pattam Jeeyar , He had in

His poorvAsramam a daughter by name SrirangammA .She had

no issues and adopted in her fifties Partthipattu ThiruvEnkatAcchAr ,

who would become the father of HH The 43rd Jeeyar later.

When SrirangammA brought ThiruvEnkatAchAr as a boy for

Pancha samskAram to the then reigning Atthippattu

Azhagiya Singar ( HH The 34th Jeeyar, Sri SatakOpa RaamAnuja

YathIndhra MahA Desikan /AasthAnam : 1879-1882), latter

blessed the boy ThiruvEnkadAcchAr with SamAsraYaNam; The Jeeyar

also asked his sishyan, Sri Chakravathi RaamAnujAchAr , the brother of

the would-be 30th pattam Azhagiya Singar ( Sri SrinivAsa

VedAntha YathIndhra MahA Desikan/AasthAnam: March 1837- Sep 1842)

to give his 6 year old daughter in marriage to the young boy,

ThiruvEngatAcchAr.

 

The marriage took place between the two sub-teen agers as was

the custom in thise days . ThiruvEngadaacchAr grew up , acquired

property at DevanAr ViLAgam as well besides his native

Paritthupattu and was a wealthy land owner .Years went by

and ThiruvEngadaacchAr Swamy did not have any children .

As was the custom in those days, SrirangammA identified

a Kannikai from nearby PoundarIkapuram as the second wife .

Due to Bhagavath KatAksham ( MalOlan and Oppiliappan's anugraham),

a boy was born in 1901 to ThiruvengadAcchAr and his second wife

followed by two more sons and a daughter. The first boy was the One ,

who later ascended the Sri Matam Peetam ( AasthAnam : March 1953

to November 1957)as the 43rd Pattam Jeeyar.

 

Interesting is the account behind the first son of ThiruvEngadAcchAr

receiving the naamakaraNam of Lakshmi Narasimhan. The time was between

the 37th and 38th Azhagiya Singars. HH The 37th Azhagiya Singar

ascended parama Padham on Dec 16, 1899 . For the next 5 years and

seven months , the Sri Matam Peetam was empty . Thirukkudanthai

Sri ChakravarthyAcchAr Swamy became the 38th Peetam Jeeyar after

this huge gap on July 17, 1905. Thus between Dec 1899 and July 1905,

there were no Azhagiya Singars as PeetAdhipathis. Our Devanaaar

ViLAgam Jeeyar was born in 1901 during this gap . A devotee

representing the Sri Matam predicted few days before the birth of

the first son of ThiruvengadacchAr that latter will have a boy and

the child should be named Lakshmi Nrusimhan. On Kaarthikai

PoorAdam , a boy was born and ThiruvEngadAcchAr duly named him

Lakshmi Narasimhan .

 

Our " Jeeyar-to-be " received pancha SamskAram from the 40th Jeeyar

(AasthAnam : 1913-1923). He started his Sri BhAshyAdhi KaalkshEpams

with that Azhagiya Singar and completed them under the 41st

Azhagiya Singar ( AasthAnam : 1923-1941) during his twenties.

 

If I remember right , the Thirukkudanthai Azhagiya Singar

(HH The 38th Pattam; AasthAnam:1905-1909 ) were related to

one branch of the Parutthipattu Vamsam of Srimath Azhagiya Singar

(Jeeyarpuram NadAdhUr branch , whose relatives were the other

family (Chinna sEtthi Paritthipattu Lakshmi AmmAL family)

living in the DevanAr ViLAgam hamlet ). Sri Lakshmi Narasimhan of

Boston , who is married into HH The 43rd Azhagiya Singar family

can help clarify this link .

 

Thus from the 27th pattam Azhagiya Singar time (ILanagar-

GathAdharapuram Sri VathSanga vamsa Azhagiya Singar's time)

to 38th pattam Azhagiya Singar's time ( Thirukkudanathai-

ILanagar-GadhAdharapuram-SrivathSangam vamsam descendant),

there has been connections ( 1829 through 1909 C.E). Those

links continue for the DevanArviLAgam Jeeyar (43rd Jeeyar)

thru AchArya sambhandham further from the 40 th Jeeyar thru

the 45th Jeeyar.The 40th and The 41st Jeeyars blessed him (43rd

Jeeyar )with KaalkshEpams ; The 42nd Jeeayr appointed him to

succeed him ; The 44th Jeeayr was His Aasthaana VidvAn and

Sri Kaaryam . He was at the 43rd Jeeyar's side as He ascended

Parama Padham at NaimisAraNyam . The 45th Jeeyar peformed

BharanyAsam with the 43rd Jeeyar of DevanAr ViLagam .

 

Thus the many links of DeavanAr ViLAgam Jeeyar from His

father's days (1880 C.E) to today , a span of 121 years

covering the reigns of 27th Pattam Jeeyar to the current Jeeyar ,

Sri NaarAyaNa YathIndhra MahA Desikan.The links can be traced

earlier to the 25th pattam and the 26th pattam Azhagiya Singars

since the 25th pattam and the 26th Pattam Azhagiya Singars are

also from the ILanagar -GadhAdharapuram-SrivathSangam Kulam .

The 26th Azhagiya Singar was the son of the 25th Azhagiya

Singar ( AasthAnam: March 1776- November 1811 C.E). The 35 years of

reign of the 25th pattam Azhagiya Singar , who is regarded as

the VainathEyAmsam , were golden years . His son , who succeeded

His father as the 26th Azhagiya Singar is regarded as the amsam

of ANDAL (AasthAnam : 1829-1831).The links of the DeavanAr ViLAgam

Azhagiya Singar , asmath AchAryan , are thus deep indeed !

 

To gain a time perspective , it is appropriate to recall

that from the time of the Founding AchAryan of Sri Matam ,

Adhi VaNN SatakOpa Jeeyar (AasthAnam: 1399-1458 C.E ) to

the 27th pattam Azhagiya Singar's kaalam (AasthAnam: 1829 C.E),

there were 27 Azhagiya Singars , who adorned the throne of

Sri Matam across the time span of 430 years. From the Time of

the 27th Pattam Azhagiya Singar ( Aasthanam : 1829 to 1831 C.E))

to Prakrutham Azhagiya Singar , the time span is 172 years.

The sishyAs of Sri Matam celebrated the 600th anniversary of

the founding of Sri Matam by MalOlan thru Adhi VaNN SatakOpar

in September 1999.

 

It is our prayer to MalOlan that He blesses the Prakrutham

Jeeyar , who will be celebrating His 75th Thirunakshathram

this November , to perform MalOlan's AaarAdhanam for many,

many years to come and bless us all and grow this blessed

Sri Matam with direct links to MalOlan and Swamy NammAzhwAr

from day to day !

 

Srimath DeavanAr ViLAgam Azhagiya Singar ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,

DaasOham , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SatakOpan