Kaliyan with Kannan

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Dear All,

 

Pranams!

 

engkaLgadhiyE! iraamaanusamuniyE!

sangkaikedutthaaNda thavaraasaa -- pongkupugazh

mangkaiyarkO Nneendha maRaiyaayiramanaitthum

thangkumanamnNeeyenakkuth thaa

 

aDiyEn would like to touch up on some of the anubhavams of Kaliyan on Krishnan.

It will look little odd to combine Kaliyan and Kannan when compared to the

anubhavam of Periyazhwar, Andal and Nammazhwar on Kannan. ADiyEn would like to

draw reference form 3 Divya Desams from Kaliyan’s pasurams.

 

Periyazhwar starts with the birth of Kannan in Thirukkoshtiyur. Since the Goshti

discussion on Kannan’s avataram happened there, Azhwar decided to call that as

the place of birth. Kaliyan, on the other hand is a great sishyan of

Thirukkanapuram Sowrirajan. He learnt the meaning of Ashtakshara mantram from

Sowrirajan. He spoke about the birth of Krishnan in one of his pasurams on

Sowrirajajan. Here is it,

 

thanNdhai kaalil vilaNGgaRavanNdhu thONnRiya thONnRalpiNn, thamiyENnRaNn

 

Let us look into Azhwar’s anubhavam of Kannan when singing on his favourite

Thirunaraiyur Nambi,

 

uRiyaar veNNe yuNdura lOdum kattuNdu, veRiyaar koonthal pinnai poruttuAn

venRaanoor, poRiyaar maNYNYai poompozhil thORum nadamaada, naRun aaN malarmEl

vaNdisai paadum naRaiyoorE

 

Kaliyan discusses about Kannan’s mischievous activity in the above pasuram. He

was eventually tied to the ural (mortar). Incidentally, Yasodha is the only

blessed soul of all the times to have tied both 'akAram' and 'AkAram' . He

discusses about Kannan's stealing activity in Siriya Thirumadal,

 

cheeraar thayir kadaindhu veNNai thiraNdadhaNai vEraar nudhal madavaaL vErOr

kalaththittu naaraaruriyERRi nankamayayaiththathanai pOraar vErkaNmatavaaL

pOndhanaiyumpoyyurakkam Oraadhavanpol uraNgiyarivuRRu thaaraar thadanthoLgaL

uLLaLavum kaineettii 32 aaraadha veNNaivizhuNgi -- arukirundha mOraar

kudamurutti munkidandha thaanaththE

 

Kanna always likes things in natural form. He does not like butter milk. He

likes butter and strong curd. After eating the butter He just rolls out the

vessel with butter milk. He feels very happy to hear the noise of that rolling

vessel.

 

Azhwar says that Kannan, as a kid did not know that he cannot get more butter

just because he can try to insert more of his hand in the pot. He could get

butter only to the length of his small hand. He immediately pretends as if he is

sleeping after doing all the mischievous activity of stealing butter and rolling

the pots.

 

Let us look at the anubhavam of KrishnAvatAram in Srirangam Perumal (Unique for

Him in terms of number of pasurams, 50).

 

Kaliyan talks about some unique aspect in KrishnAvatAram,

 

 

 

‘mAgam mAnilam muzhutum vandhirainjum….’

 

KrishnAvatAram was the only avatAram where all the kinds of souls have done

kaimkaryam to Perumal.

 

mAgam refers to Nityasuris. Adhi Seshan did kaimkaryam immediately after Kanna

was born. He acted as the umbrella, when Kannan was carried by Vasudevar to

Gokulam.

 

mAnilam refers to the bhadhAtmAs – This is very obvious. Vidhura, the Gopikas an

people in AyarpAdi have done kaimkaryam to Him in some way or other.

 

muzhuthum – refers to Devas. Indran did kaimkaryam and surrendered at the feet

of Perumal to protect him.

 

aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,

 

ramanan

 

 

 

 

 

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