Intro to Iraamaanusa nooRRanthAthi...

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SrI:

SrImathE Ramanujaya namah:

Dearest all,

 

This is the most wonderful set of 108 sweet tamil

verses sung by Thiruvarangatthu amudhanAr [sishya of

KooratthAzhwAn- and also a contemporary of Sri

Ramanujacharya. ] These 108 verses are considered as

part of 4000 verses – those of 12 AzhwArs.

 

Let us look at how these verses add upto to 4000.

Let us end this post with the invocatory verses on

AmudhanAr [thaniyans on Iraamanusa nOORRanthAthi]

[from Sri Sadagopan Swami’s write up]

 

There are four Taniyans for IrAmAnusa nooRRandhAthi

attributed to Vedhap PirAn Bhattar, SOmAsi ANDAn and

another author. We will salute AmudanAr through these

invocatory paasurams (Taniyans) and then cover the

charithram of AmudanAr, the contemporary of AchArya

RaamAnujA.. before enjoying the individual verses of

nooRRanthAthi

 

Taniyan 1 by Vedhap PirAn Bhattar:

 

munaani vinai ahala Moonkirkkudiyamudhan,

ponnang kazhark kamalap pOthiraNDum--yennudaya

sennik kaNiyAhac chErthinEn, tennpulatthArkk-

kennaik kadavudayEn yann

 

(Meaning): All of adiyEn's ancient paapams have been

banished with the smaraNam of the sacred feet of

AmudhanAr. He was born in the village of Moonkirkkudi.

His sacred feet are the most desirable and lovely like

the lotus flower. AdiyEn is wearing them as the

aabharaNam for my head. How can adiyEn become the

target now of the Yama kinkarAs and their tortures ?

No way.

 

Taniyan 2 by Vedhap PirAn Bhattar:

 

nayam taru pErinbhamellAm pazhuthenRu naNNInar paal

sayam taru keerthi RaamAnusa Muni thALiNai mEl

Uyarntha guNatthut ThiruvarangatthamudhOnkumanbAl

iyampum KalitthuRaiyandhAthi Odha visai nenjamE

 

(Meaning): Here, the prayer is to one's nenju to

agree to recite the sacred prabhnadham of IrAmAnusa

nooRRandhAthi of AmudhanAr.

 

EmperumAnAr is the glorious One, who blesses us with

victory over the afflictions of SamsAram, once we seek

His sacred feet as refuge after clearly recognizing

that the material pleasures are evanescent and

ephemeral. Oh My mind, Please agree to recite the

Prabhandham of AmudhanAr set in kalitthuRai metre in

the form of an andhAthi;

AmudhanAr's dhivya prabhndham originated from his

saraNAgathi with MahA visvAsam at the sacred feet of

RaamAnujar and the love that flowed from that sacred

rite taking the shape of RaamAnuja

nooRRandhAthi is for our ujjeevanam.

 

Taniyan 3 by SOmAsi ANDAn :

 

sollin thohai koNDu unathadip pOthukkut thoNDu seyum

nallanbharEtthum unn naamamelAm yenRan naavinuLLE

allum pahalum amarumpaDi nalhu aRu samayam

vellum Parama, IrAmAnusa! ithenn viNNappamE

 

(Meaning): Here SOmAsi ANDAn wishes his tongue to

recite the TirunAmams of IrAmAnusan eulogized by His

adiyArs.

 

Oh RaamAnujA, who has the glory of winning over the

six darsanams and demonstrated that they are no match

to Sri VaisNava darsanam ! This is my prayer to You !

May Your ThirunAmams celebrated by your adiyArs in

their paasurams stay on my tongue day and night for my

enjoyment and ujeevanam.

 

Taniyan 4 used in mElnAttu Thiruppathis:

 

iniyenn kuRai namakkemperumAnAr ThirunAmatthAl

muni tanatha nooRRettu SAAVITHRI yennu nuNNporuLai

kani tantha senjcholl KalithuraiyandhAthi

paaDithanthAn punithan ThiruvarangatthamuthAhiya

PuNNiyanE

 

(meaning): We have nothing missing in our lives, now

that we have the prapanna Saavithri -- the 108

pasurams of RaamAnuja nooRRandhAthi celebrating our

AchAryan's sacred name set in kalitthurai andhAthi,

blessed by the puNya moorthi, ThiruvarangatthamudanAr.

Meditating on the deep meanings of this Prabhandham,

we do not have any more wants in this world. We do

not lack any thing.

 

Achaarya saarvabhouman SrI Bhaashyakaarar

ThiruvaDigaLE saraNam

Regards

Namo Narayana

dasan