Gaganagiri Muni Guru paramparA prabhAvam-29 (Nineteenth Jeeyer contd.)

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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

 

thathAyaththAthma sadhdhAthim rAmAnuja munim bhajE

 

 

 

HH Sri Vanamamalai Periya Pattarbiran jeeyer 1843-1853 (nineteenth pattam)

 

 

 

Swamy’s kainkaryams (Contd.)

 

 

 

Then swamy stayed two or three days in Srirangam and then after getting the

permission from Periya perumal started his journey towards east and did

mangalasasanams to all the divya desams in chola desam. Receiving the

respective honours in the various divya desams, swamy proceeded towards north

and finally reached thiruvallikeni.

 

 

 

Swamy did mangalasasanams to “parthan than thEr mun nindran” (the lord who stood

in front of the chariot of arjuna otherwise called parthan) geethAcharyan, Sri

Parthasarathi emperuman. There swamy was greatly honoured by Srivaishnavas and

others. While swamy stayed in thiruvallikeni, a wealthy person prostrated swamy

and was highly attracted by swamy’s charm and swamy’s speaking talent and with

great regard for swamy submitted an elephant for adorning swamy’s ghosti. Swamy

also gracefully accepted the same.

 

 

 

Meanwhile, Srivaishnavas in Sriperumbudur came to know about swamy’s stay in

thiruvallikeni and rushed to swamy’s sannadhi to invite him to grace the divine

occasion of thirupradhistOtsavam of swamy EmperumAnAr. Swamy was very happy to

be able to obtain such a kainkaryam to serve emperumAnar, the jagadAcharya who

established our vishistAdvaita sampradayam and made the world realize parathvam

and hence attain the divine feet of emperuman, and with joy reached sri

bhoothapuri.

 

 

 

Swamy did mangalasasanams to EmperumAnAr and wanting to do the jadibhandhana

pradhistai of perumbudur mAmunivan without any flaws in manthra or thantra,

arranged for scholars well versed in Sanskrit and dravida vedas to recite the

vedas respectively and invited great srivaishnavas to do ithihasa purana,

sribhashya, bhaghavat vishaya and rahasya grantha pArAyanam (reciting). Not

stopping with flawless vaidhika proceedings swamy also arranged for filling the

stomach of all with variety of prasadams. Swamy honoured all the scholars and

srivaishnavas who recited the vedas and did ithihasa purana, sribhashya and

bhagavat vishaya pArAyanam with grand vastrams (clothes) and sambhavai (money).

Swamy submitted a beautiful hamsa vAhanam to the jagadAcharyan Sri udaiyavar.

In this way swamy celebrated the thiruprathistOtsavam of Swamy udaiyavar in a

very grand manner. Happy with the celebrations arranged by swamy some

srivaishnavas who have come from the north requested swamy to undergo a

vadadEsa yAthra and grace the people in the north. Swamy also accepted the

invitation and decided to go to vadamadurai, sAlagramam, thuvarai and ayodhya

and do mangalasasanams and thereby first reached thirumalai.

 

 

 

(To be continued)

 

 

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

 

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee,

 

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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