Thirucchandhaviruttham- 33rd verse- You are SarvashrEshtan! Golden hued one!

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SrI:

SrimathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

Dearest Srivaishnavas,

 

AzhwAr continues and touches upon the Bow usage and

His valour and enters into KrishNAnubhavam in this

verse [and will enjoy subsequent ones on Cowherd Boy

in grand way]

 

minniRatthu yeyiRRarakkan veezha vem charamcthuranthu

pinnavaRku aruLpurindha arasu aLittha peRRiyOy

nanniRatthu Or insol Ezhai pinnaikELva! mannuseer

ponniRattha vaNNAnaaya puNdareekan allaiyE? (33)

 

Oh PundareekA! SarvashrEshtanE! Supreme Lord! The One

who has the greatness of valour to send sharp powerful

arrows and destroy Raakshasan (RaavaNan- who had

lightning like shining teeth) and then coronated his

younger brother VibheeshaNa with lankA raajyam and

blessed him! Lord! The divine consort of Nappinnai

PiraaTTi- who is of grand complexion, who is

unparralelled and peerless; matching You in all

aspects and all respects! Who sought You helplessly

with no other refuge for Her (yEzhai); You are the

Supreme Lord- Pundareekan possessed with most

auspicious attributes (anantha kOti kalyANa guNAs

eternally) and are of golden hued divinely beautiful

form..

 

In last verse- AzhwAr enjoys Lord Rama’s destroying

those who were linked to the raakshasa [RaavaNan] who

had abducted PiraaTTi. In this verse, He takes on

straight on the one who committed his apachAram to

PiraaTTi i.e RaavaNan. That’s the reason all monkeys

joined (and devas incarnated as monkeys) in the

avathAram of Rama- who appeared for their sake and

answering their prayers. His main mission is

abhayapradhAnam. Whoever surrenders- He says, do not

fear- abhayam.

 

Why the teeth of Raavanan are referred to? Sri UttamUr

Swamy writes: the younger brother VibheeshaNan and the

maternal uncle (who had tasted Lord’ valour before)

Maalyavaan kept advising ceaselessly every time

against the abduction of SitA PiraaTTi and advised

Ravana to return Her back to Rama as it is against

saasthrAs to bring someone else’s wife with a wrong

intention. Those advice were not palatable to Ravana

and he expreeses his anger by grinding his teeth

everytime. Hecen they get polished due to his frequent

grinding.

 

aruL purindhu and arasaLitthu- Two different words- He

blessed Vibheeshanan with his merciful glances and

looked at him with extreme love and affection on the

devotee who had surrendered at His feet with an

unflinching faith unconditionally. And then He blessed

him with kingdom. [Read and enjoy Swamy Desikan’s

AbhayapradhAna saaram elaborating this most

beautifully and also Adaikkalappathhu- umadhadigaL

adaiginREn enRu orukkal uraiitthavarai- … thamadhu

anaiithum vazhangi.. When one surrenders at His Feet,

He grants the prapannan everything including Himself-

anakkE thannait thandha kaRpakam- says NammAzhwAr.

 

When He blessed pinnavan (younger one), AzhwAr

remembered the blessing of the Lord on Pinna(i)vaL.

i.e. Nappinnai.

 

Till VihbheeshaNan came- the battle was for getting

SitA PiraaTTi; after VibheeshaNa saraNAgathi, the

mission was to place VibheeshaNan on the throne of

LankA.

 

The third line on Nappinnai can also be addressed as

SitA who later were born as Nappinnai as it is

Vedhavathi who first appeared as SitA and later as

Nappinnai. OR even Lakshmi is addressed as Pinnai. All

adjectives of the third line apply to Lakshmi

naturally.

 

Pon niRattha vaNNan- golden colured Lord- how the dark

hued cloud colured one is golden coloured as well!

ThirukkaNdEn pon mEni kaNdEn- With SrI, as He is

always with, He is seen as golden colour.

Vedas also refer the Lord to HiraNmaya (Gold colour

and Gold itself) meaning He is utmost and greatest

personification of enjoyment for us;.

 

HiraNya kESa: hiraNyasmasru: ; HiraNmaya: purushO

dhrSyathE- are all sruthi vaakyams. Swamy Desikan in

his thaathparya chandhrikA mentions that the most

valuable gold naturally on its own has cloud colour

base.

 

PundareekanE! Red lotus is Pundareekam, His hands,

palms, eyes, feet, navel, the red lips, the divine

charming face are all lotuses. He is the lotus forest.

The Paramapadham itself is called Pundareekam –

Pundareekam ParamdhAma:- says VishnusahasranAmam.

Hence when AzhwAr addresses Him as PundareekanE! He is

greatest and most beautiful like Pundareekam and hence

He is addressed so- as He is SarvOtthaman; nirmalan

(Blemishless); Supran; ShrEshtan. Hence We need to

infer this word as SarvOtthamanE!

 

Thirumazhisai Piraan ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam

Regards

Namo Narayana

dAsan

 

 

 

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