Sri Varamangai muni Vaibhavam-25

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha

Sri VanAchala mahA munayE Namaha

 

SrisailEsa dayA pAthram deebhakthyAdhi gunArnavam

Yateendra pravanam vandhE ramya jAmataram munim

 

RamyajAmAtru yOgeendra pAdha rEkhA mayam sadhA

ThathAyath thAthma sadhdhAthim rAmAnuja munim bhajE

 

On the way to Srirangam, swamy remembered the verse of alwar, “villiputtur

vuraivAn than ponnadi kAnbhadhOr AsaiyinAl” (Due to the wish of having darshan

of the divine feet of emperumAn in srivilliputtur) and with the same wish

proceeded to srivilliputtur and halted in the kannan sannadhi at the outskirts

of villiputtur. At that time, nAchiyAr pleased with the arrival of Jeeyer swamy

sent her “uduththukalaindha peedhaga vAdai” (the divine dress adorned by her

earlier), vanamAlai (her garland from her chest) and abhaya-hastham (the

impression of her divine hand in abhaya mudra) in a golden plate, along with

many adiyars and srivaishnavas. All the Srivaishanavas came to welcome swamy

accompanied with the sound of divine instruments and words of praise for

ponnadikkAl Jeeyer swamy.

 

They came to swamy submitted all the honors viz, thiruparivattam, thirumAlai,

abhayahastham etc in the appropriate order. Swamy accepted them with due

regards and then along with the parivAram of Andal (the srivaishnavas

representing Andal) and his own shisyas went into the town towards Andal

sannadhi. Swamy prostrated before the dvajasthambham when nAchiyAr sent her

Srisadagopan, indicating her personal welcome to swamy. Accepting the same with

due regards swamy proceeded inside with great amount of joy and gratefulness to

nAchiyAr’s sannadhi.

 

Swamy did mangalAsAsanam to andal starting with “neelAtungastanagiri” and

enjoyed the darshan of andal along with rangamannar. Then after accepting all

the prasAdams of andal given to swamy by the archakar, swamy then proceeded to

have darshan of vadaperunkOIl udaiyAn and periyAzhvAr. After that swamy started

from srivilluputtur and proceeded towards thirumAlirunchOlai. Swamy bathed in

the noopura ganga, finished the appropriate anushtanams and proceeded further to

do mangalAsAsanam to mAlirunchOlai sundarar. On the way, swamy was greeted by

the kainkaryaparas from azhagar sannadhi and swamy was taken with appropriate

honors to the perumal sannadhi.

 

As swamy reached the gopura vAsal (temple entrance), perumal happy to welcome

Jeeyer sent his Srisadagopan in thirukkaiththalam (in the hands of the

archakar). Swamy accepted the same with due respects and proceeded towards the

sannadhi. Swamy did mangalAsAsanam to ‘mAlirunchOlai nindrAn’ (one who stood in

malirunchOlai) as per our alwars paasurams. Pleased with Jeeyer, perumal with

all his grace on swamy said, “Oh! Jeeyer you are an avatar as par with Periya

Jeeyer and hence seeing you is like seeing Periya Jeeyer himself” and then

blessed swamy with his parivattam, thirumAlai and other honors.

 

Grateful with the krupai showered by perumal on him swamy stayed in

thirumAlirunchOlai for three more days and then further proceeded his journey.

Travelling for few more days, swamy finally reached ‘ponnisoozh’ thiruvarangam

(srirangam surrounded by ponni river).

 

(To be continued)

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

P.S: The earlier postings have been archived at

http://www.geocities.com/sumivaradan/General.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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