Mamunigal - His compositions, contributions - For us today.

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Humble pranam to all devotees on This Holy day of Mamunigal's Thriunakshatram

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Q 4: Mamunigal - What are swAmy mAmunikaL's compositions, contributions?

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Everything he did was directed toward establishing Ramanuja Darshanam.

He added verses about swAmy Ramanuja into the Daily Prayer (ThiruAradhana Krama)

and wrote two lines that are still being chanted by every sri vaishnava who does

daily prayers.

 

" RamanujArya DivyAgnya VardhathAm abhivardhatAm "

 

(May we grow and succeed by following the instructions handed down to us swAmy

rAmAnuja).

He also had his disciple write Sri Venkatesa Suprabhatam and offered it to Lord

Srinivasa

at Thirumala. Even today this is being chanted during morning prayers at all

Sri Vaishnava temples.

 

Most of his contributions were in the form of writing commentaries for existing

works and teaching it to

all those who were interested.

 

There are 18 works attributed to Sri Mamunigal:

Four in Sanskrit - Devaraja Mangalam, KanchidivyadEshastuti, YathirajaVimsathi,

and tAtparya dIpa - A commentary on Bhagawad Gita.

 

Three in Tamil - UpadesaRatnamalai, Thiruvaimozhi Noothandhandhi and

Arthiprabhandham

 

Eleven in MaNipravALa (Mixture of Tamizh & Sanskrit words)

- Commentaries on works of Pillai Lockacharya, Azhagiya Manavalapperumal

Nayanar,

Periyazhwar Thirumozhi and Ramanuja NooRRandhandhi

 

Four indices containing the sources of the Gnyanasara and Prameyasara of

Arulalapperumal Emberumanar.

 

One work is on the daily worship of the Lord (ThiruAradhana Kramam).

 

5. Did he have any other contributions to humanity?

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His Other Main contributions are:

•Temple renovations, administration and management. (After Muslim invasions and

political confusions in the south)

•Spiritual leadership by contributions through commentaries and propagation of

Azhvars

& Purvacharyas Works, Compositions and guidance to the Sri Vaishnava

community.

•Making complex issues on the Philosophical doctrines (Mostly written and

preserved in

Sanskrit texts originally) made easy to understand and accessible to all

interested devotees.

•Following the footsteps of Ramanuja, Mamunigal rebuilt the temples and

strengthened Sri Viashanava Sampradaya. Those days temples were centers

for everything

social and spiritual. Rebuilding and strengthening Temples, he re-built

the society as a whole.

 

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adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan

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