Azhvargal thiruppalliezhuchi in Andal's thiruppAvai-1

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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

 

Srimathe rAmAnujaya Namaha

 

Sri vara vara munayE Namaha

 

Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha

 

 

 

“poigaiyAr bhoodhaththAr pEyAr pugazh mazhisai

 

iyan arul mAran sEralarkOn-tuiyapatta

 

nAdhan anbartAl thooli narpAnan nankaliyan

 

edhivar thOtrath thadaivAm engu”

 

 

 

“In her divine work thiruppavai, our dear kodhA piratti, soodikodduththa

nAchiyar Sri Andal, from the sixth to the fifteenth paasuram wakes up the ten

Azhvars”, enjoys our poorvacharyas in their svabhadeshArtham (these are special

anubhavams of our acharyas which are near and dear to their heart). Andal is

regarded as “anju kudikkoru sandhadhi” (as a daughter to all the Azhvars). In

the above mentioned ten paasurams andal awakens the Azhvars one by one starting

with periyAzhvar, andal’s foster father who brought her up and then she goes in

a descending order till poigai azhvar and in the following seven paasurams

explains the seven thirunAmams respectively. Then she proceeds to wake up the 3

azhvars, anbartAl thooli, narpAnan and nankaliyan who are going to take birth in

future predicting their birth by her jnana drishti.

 

 

 

Sri PrathivAdi bhayangaram annangaracharya swamy deeply immerses himself in the

anubhavam of andal singing thirupalliezhuchi to the various Azhvars in her

paasurams and explains the correlations in meanings and words in the lines of

andal that indicates the Azhvars. Let us also enjoy swamy’s anubhavams to the

smallest extent possible.

 

 

 

 

 

“pullum silambina kAn”

 

 

 

This paasuram awakens periyAzhvar (periyAzhvar thirupalliezhuchi). Andal calls

periAzhvar as “pillAi!” One who is ignorant is called as “pillAi”. What is

periAzhvar’s ignorance? Periazhvar is ignorant (has forgotten) of the fact that

perumal is sarva rakshakan (one who is the saviour of all) and hence he does

mangalasasanams to perumal for the welfare of emperuman. Hence andal calls

periAzhvar as “pillAi”. “jnana vibhAga kAryamAna agnAnaththAlE varumavaiellAm

adikazhanju perum” says pillai ulagAriyan in his Srivachana bhooshanam. Here

lokAcharya shows that agnanam is the root for mangalAsAsanam. Since this azhvar

has spent most of his time in the garden, in this paasuram andal starts the

paasuram indicating the atmosphere in a garden, “pullum silambina kAn”.

“Pullaraiyan” refers to Periya thiruvadi (Sri garudAzhvan). According to the

guru parampara prabhAvam periAzhvar is supposed to be the avathara of Periya

thiruvadi (“vainathEyAmsa sambhoodham vishnuchittham aham

bhajE”). Here andal indicates the same and says “pullaraiyan”.

 

 

 

“vellai vilisangu” is a phrase which has been first used by periAzhvar

(periAzhvar thirumozhi 4-1-7). Andal repeats the same in this paasuram to

strongly show the correlation of this paasuram to periAzhvar. “peimulai

nanjundu”-- PeriAzhvar, out of all the leelas of Krishna, first talks only about

the incident of Krishna drinking the poisoned milk of bhoothaki in periyAzhvar

thirumozhi (seedhakadalul) “pirangiya pEichi mulai suvaitundittu” says

periAzhvar in another paasuram. In one another paasuram “nAlgalOr nAlaindhu”

periAzhvar combines the incident of sagadAsurabhangam along with the above

incident. So Andal here also says, “peimulai nanjundu kalla sagadam

kalakkazhiya kAlOchchi”. “vella tharavil thuyilamarindha viththinai

vullaththukkonda munivargalum yOgigalum” says andal. PeriAzhvar is called as

“Vishnu chittar”-one whose mind is always filled with the thought of lord

Vishnu. So the above line of andal also indicates towards periAzhvar.

 

 

 

Now that andal has awaken periAzhvar in this paasuram lets see how she awakens

kulasekara perumAn in the next paasuram in the next posting.

 

 

 

Azhvar EmperumAnAr Andal Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

 

 

 

Adiyen rAmAnuja dAsee

 

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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