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Dear Bhagavathas,

Today Dec. 15th, 2003 (Karthigai - Magam) is the Thirunakshtram day
of
one of the foremost and illustrious acharyas of Srirangam
Srimath Andavan PeriAsramam, Srimath ChinnAndavan ?Sri PAdukA sEvaka
rAmAnuja mahA dEsikan.

Adiyen is reposting the life history of Srimath Chinnandavan from
Archives for the benefit of all
======================================================

Let us all recite this mahan's thaniyan on His
thirunakshatram day.

Sriman naatha muneendra yaamuna muni Srisamya mindraathmanaha
Sri Srivasa muneendra dEsika maNE: praapthaaga maanthath dvayam
Sri rangEsha padhE thadharpithaBHaram Sri paadukasevaka
Sri raamaanuja yoginam guruvaram vandhe dayaasaagaram


This mahAn was born in the year sarvadhari (1828), in the month of
Karthigai in a hamlet called vELiyanallur. His janma nakshatram is
Magam. He belonged to satamarshana gothra.

His father, Sri Krishna ThAthAchAryA. named his son as
SrinivAsarAghavan. It is a great coincidence that two other AchAryas
in this illustrious lineage who adorned the peetam were also named as
SrinivAsarAghavan in their poorvAsramam namely Srimath PeriAndavan
who was Srimath ChinnAndavan's direct predecessor and the other
AchAryA was none other than the famous Srimath Thirukkudanthai
Andavan who was instrumental in spreading the PeriAsrama parampara to
length and breadth of the country and made it reach dizzy heights of
glory in our sampradaya.

Younger days of Srimath ChinnAndavan

Sri Krishna ThAthAchArya performed upayanam and other vaithika
samskArams to his son at the right age. SrinivAsarAghavan swami also
underwent veda adhyayanam and learnt kAvya alankAra grantham. After
havinglearnt them very well, He became very eager to learn Nyaya
sAstrAs and hence proceeded to Mysore. There He met Sri Rama Sastri
who was the AsthAna vidwAn of the Mysore rAja samsthAnam. He learnt
nyAya sAstrAs and advaita philosophy under his tutelage and thus
became an exponent and a very well qualified pundit. He continued to
stay with Sri sAstri in Mysore and helped him during his research on
sAstras with his radiant brilliance. Sometimes it was such that he
even cleared the doubts Sri sAstri encountered on sAstraic research
and earned his awe and accolades. In particular, swami was extremely
proficient in tharka sAstrAs.

With the rich Knowledge Swami acquired in sAmAnya sAstrAs, He wanted
to learn adhyAtma sAstrAs under a sadhAchAryan through kAlakshEpams .
He went to Srirangam in pursuit of the same and reached the holy
hermitage of Srimath pEriAndavan who was the paragon of GnAna and
vairAghyA and prayed at His holy feet for the same. Observing
SrinivAsarAghavan Swami, Srimath PeriAndavan was very much pleased
with His modesty and His sAstrAic knowledge and accepted Him as His
sishya. He rendered Grantha chathustayam ( namely Srimath Rahasya
thraya sAram, Geetha BhAshyam, Sri BhAshyam and bhagavath vishayam)
and satha dhooshani to SrinivAsarAghavan. Upon the completion of
kAlakshEpam. SrinivAsarAghavan swami went back to vELianallur.

Incident in kAlakshEpam

More than 70 vidwAns used to attend the kAlakshEpa goshti of Srimath
pEriAndavan. As a general norm during the kAlakshEpam, goshti would
very keenly observe the rendering of their AchAryan and whatever
doubts they may have would get them cleared after its completion for
that day. They would not indulge in any kinds of discussion or debate
when it was in progress. This tradition was unfortunately broken once
when the sishyAs got engaged in a debate and lengthy discussions even
in the presence of Srimath PeriAndavan. Srimath pEriAndavan felt
upset and told the audience that he would not render the kAkakshEpam
and hence left the place. All the sishyAs felt very bad about the
incident and later proceeded to their destination. But
SrinivAsarAghavan swami was pained beyond one can imagine and He
never moved from the place where he sat during the kAlakshEpam.
Obviously he was gloom personified and got very much distressed for
the apachAram that got committed inadvertently by all the sishyAs in
front of their revered AchAryA.

Srimath pEriAndavan came to know about this and called for
SrinivAsarAghavan swami. He was very happy to see SwAmi's AchArya
bhakti and His VairAghya and He gladly resumed rendering kAlakshEpam
to his beloved sishyA.

British Raj's Respect towards swami

Knowing the profound mastery swami had on all the vEdAs, sAstrAs,
kalpa sutras and other scriptures, british raj made use of
swAmi's immense knowledge on these subjects, approaching Him and
asking for His guidance in their task of constituting various laws
based on Hindu philosophy specifically in the areas of manu smriti
and yAjyavalkyA smriti.


Taking up sanyAsa

When swami was in vELianallur observing his panca kala
anushtAnams and leading a very regimented life of a true srivaishnava
paramAIkAnthi, Srimath PeriAndavan due to His severe penance and
austere life became very emaciated. For the sampradaya to continue to
flourish and grow, Srimath pEriAndavan wanted to choose His successor
and hence decided to conduct a test for the same. He decided that
whoever successfully qualified in his "pareekshA" would succeed him
as the next AchAryA ofpEriAsramam. So He decided to do this to three
of His most qualified sishyAs who underwent kAlakshEpams under Him
and were explempary scholars in their own right.

SrinivAsarAghavan swami was one of those sishyAs,Srimath pEriAndavan
wanted to test. So He commanded one of his disciples toprepare 3
individual sets of "ThirumaNN katti" wrapped in a banana leaf and
askedhim to hand it over to his 3 sishyAs. He also commanded his
disciple to know their reaction and feedback upon receiving the same
and asked him to duly report back the proceedings. Except
SrinivAsarAghavan swami, the other two sishyAs received the material
and said to him that it was Srimath pEriAndavan's blessings that they
received it and kept it as their treasure.

When SrinivAsarAghavan swami received it, He looked at the "ThirumaNN
katti" and took it to his gruham and applied "Sri ChoorNam" to it and
wrapped the "ThirumaNN katti" back into banana leaf and prayed to the
disciple to hand it over to Srimath pEriAndavan. When the disciple
went back and reported the incident to Srimath pEriAndavan,
pEriAndavan was very much pleased and decided that SrinivAsarAghavan
swAmi was the right person to succeed Him as the AchAryA of the
pEriAsramam. In the meantime, pEriAndavan's health deteriorated.

After a few days, SrinivAsarAghavan swAmi went back to Srirangam from
vELianallur and prostated before srimath pEriAndavan and prayed to
him that he be granted sanyAsA. With great modesty, he went through
the explanation of qualification of oneself to take up sanyAsA
thereby indicating his readiness for the same. Like Vibheeshana's
conversation with Lord Sri Rama, swAmi told srimath pEriAndavan that
he did "Sarvasanga parithyAgam", completely renouncing samsAra
bhandham and prayed to Srimath pEriAndavan to grant Him sanyAsA.
Srimath pEriAndavan was filled with extreme happiness to have chosen
the right successor and granted SrinivAsarAghavan swAmi ,sanyAsA on
an auspicious day. He was given the title "Sri PAdukA sEvaka rAmAnuja
mahA dEsikan". Since both were AchAryAs together at the same time,
they were fondly called as pEriAndavan and chinnAndavan by the
sishyAs and admirers alike. This period lasted for a very short
duration though with Srimath pEriAndavan reaching parama padam within
4 months of Srimath chinnAndavan taking up sanyAsA.

Srimath chinnAndavan was serving as guiding light of the sampradaya
and authored rarest of several granthAs when he was the AchAryA of
the periAsramam? They are as follows:

1. AhnikArtha prakAsikai
2. Sri Jayanthi nirNayam
3. ukthyAchArya nishtA vichAram
4. sathpadha rakshai
5. JanmAshtami nirNayam
6. thathkrathu nyAya vichAram
7. AchArya sambhAvanA kramam
8. yathi dharama samucchayam
9. Aasowcha sangraham

Sishya parampara

Several erudite scholars became the disciples of
srimath chinnAndavan, foremost being

1. EyuNNi Sri VaradAchAr swami ( who later became
ThErezhundur Srimath NammAndavan)
2. Sri villiputhur AmmALAchAR swami
3. vidwAn uKKur SrinivAsarAghavAchAr swami
4. Akkur SrinivAsAchAriAr swami
5. vidwAn Thenbirai rAmabhadrAchAriAr swami(who later
became Srimath thenbirai Andavan)


yAthrA and attaining ThirunAdu

Srimath chinnAndavan traveled to Sri kAnchi from Srirangam and gave
several sampradAyic pravachanams( discourses) during His yAthrA and
came back to Srirangam.

Srimath ChinnAndavan attained ThirunAdu at the age of 68 leaving
behind grieving disciples in the year Vijaya(1895), on the sukla
sapthami thithi in the tamil month of Thai.
===============================================================


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--- In ramanujamission@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Venkat Sreenivasan 
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             SrImathE ranga rAmAnuja mahA dEsikAya namaha

     SrimathE pAdukA sEvaka rAmAnuja mahA dEsikAya namaha
             SrI ranganatha Divya maNi pAdhukAbhyAm namaha

Dear Bhagavathas,

Today Nov. 27, 2002 (Karthigai - Magam) is the Thirunakshtram day of 
one
of the foremost and illustrious acharyas of Srirangam
Srimath Andavan PeriAsramam, Srimath ChinnAndavan ?
Sri PAdukA sEvaka rAmAnuja mahA dEsikan. 

Adiyen is reposting the postings adiyen had attempted last year. This 
has been
compiled from Panguni Pushyam malar(1981) during 74th
birthday celebrations of H.H. Srimath Thirukkudanthai
Andavan(Kannan swamigal) and Andavan Asramam varalaru
published in 1967 by Srirangam pEriAsramam.

======================================================

Let us all recite this mahan's thaniyan on His
thirunakshatram day. 

Sriman naatha muneendra yaamuna muni Srisamya
mindraathmanaha
Sri Srivasa muneendra dEsika maNE: praapthaaga
maanthath dvayam
Sri rangEsha padhE thadharpithaBHaram Sri
paadukasevaka
Sri raamaanuja yoginam guruvaram vandhe dayaasaagaram


This mahAn was born in the year sarvadhari (1828), in the month of 
Karthigai in a hamlet called vELiyanallur. His janma nakshatram is 
Magam. He belonged to satamarshana gothra. 

His father, Sri Krishna ThAthAchAryA. named his son as 
SrinivAsarAghavan. It is a great coincidence that two other AchAryas 
in this illustrious lineage who adorned the peetam were also named as 
SrinivAsarAghavan in their poorvAsramam namely Srimath PeriAndavan 
who was Srimath ChinnAndavan's direct predecessor and the other 
AchAryA was none other than the famous Srimath Thirukkudanthai 
Andavan who was instrumental in spreading the PeriAsrama parampara to 
length and breadth of the country and made it reach dizzy heights of 
glory in our sampradaya. 

Younger days of Srimath ChinnAndavan

Sri Krishna ThAthAchArya performed upayanam and other vaithika 
samskArams to his son at the right age. SrinivAsarAghavan swami also 
underwent veda adhyayanam and learnt kAvya alankAra grantham. After 
havinglearnt them very well, He became very eager to learn Nyaya 
sAstrAs and hence proceeded to Mysore. There He met Sri Rama Sastri 
who was the AsthAna vidwAn of the Mysore rAja samsthAnam. He learnt 
nyAya sAstrAs and advaita philosophy under his tutelage and thus 
became an exponent and a very well qualified pundit. He continued to 
stay with Sri sAstri in Mysore and helped him during his research on 
sAstras with his radiant brilliance. Sometimes it was such that he 
even cleared the doubts Sri sAstri encountered on sAstraic research 
and earned his awe and accolades. In particular, swami was extremely 
proficient in tharka sAstrAs.

With the rich Knowledge Swami acquired in sAmAnya sAstrAs, He wanted 
to learn adhyAtma sAstrAs under a sadhAchAryan through kAlakshEpams . 
He went to
Srirangam in pursuit of the same and reached the holy hermitage of 
Srimath pEriAndavan who was the paragon of GnAna and vairAghyA and 
prayed at His holy feet for the same. Observing SrinivAsarAghavan 
Swami, Srimath PeriAndavan was very much pleased with His modesty and 
His sAstrAic knowledge and accepted Him as His sishya. He rendered 
Grantha chathustayam ( namely Srimath Rahasya thraya sAram, Geetha 
BhAshyam, Sri BhAshyam and bhagavath vishayam) and satha dhooshani to 
SrinivAsarAghavan. Upon the completion of kAlakshEpam. 
SrinivAsarAghavan swami went back to vELianallur.

Incident in kAlakshEpam

More than 70 vidwAns used to attend the kAlakshEpa goshti of Srimath 
pEriAndavan. As a general norm during the kAlakshEpam, goshti would 
very keenly
observe the rendering of their AchAryan and whatever doubts they may 
have would get them cleared after its completion for that day. They 
would not indulge in any
kinds of discussion or debate when it was in progress. This tradition 
was unfortunately broken once when the sishyAs got engaged in a 
debate and lengthy
discussions even in the presence of Srimath PeriAndavan. Srimath 
pEriAndavan felt upset and told the audience that he would not render 
the kAkakshEpam and hence left the place. All the sishyAs felt very 
bad about the incident and later proceeded to their destination. But 
SrinivAsarAghavan swami was pained beyond one can imagine and He 
never moved from the place where he sat during the kAlakshEpam. 
Obviously he was gloom personified and got very much distressed for 
the apachAram that got committed inadvertently by all the sishyAs in 
front of their revered AchAryA. 

Srimath pEriAndavan came to know about this and called for 
SrinivAsarAghavan swami. He was very happy to see SwAmi's AchArya 
bhakti and His VairAghya and He gladly resumed rendering kAlakshEpam 
to his beloved sishyA.

British Raj's Respect towards swami

Knowing the profound mastery swami had on all the vEdAs, sAstrAs, 
kalpa sutras and other scriptures, british raj made use of
swAmi's 
immense knowledge on
these subjects, approaching Him and asking for His guidance in their 
task of constituting various laws based on Hindu philosophy 
specifically in the areas of
manu smriti and yAjyavalkyA smriti.


Taking up sanyAsa

When swami was in vELianallur observing his panca kala
anushtAnams and leading a very regimented life of a true srivaishnava
paramAIkAnthi, Srimath PeriAndavan due to His severe penance and 
austere life
became very emaciated. For the sampradaya to continue to flourish
and grow, Srimath pEriAndavan wanted to choose His successor and hence
decided to conduct a test for the same. He decided that whoever
successfully qualified in his "pareekshA" would succeed him
as the 
next AchAryA ofpEriAsramam. So He decided to do this to three of His 
most qualified sishyAs who underwent kAlakshEpams under Him and were 
explempary scholars in
their own right. 

SrinivAsarAghavan swami was one of those sishyAs,Srimath pEriAndavan 
wanted 
to test. So He commanded one of his disciples toprepare 3 individual 
sets of  
"ThirumaNN katti" wrapped in a banana leaf and askedhim to
hand it 
over to 
his 3 sishyAs. He also commanded his disciple to know their reaction 
and 
feedback upon receiving the same and asked him to duly report back 
the proceedings. Except SrinivAsarAghavan swami, the other two sishyAs
received the material and said to him that it was Srimath 
pEriAndavan's
blessings that they received it and kept it as their treasure. 

When SrinivAsarAghavan swami received it, He looked at the "ThirumaNN 
katti" and took it to his gruham and applied "Sri ChoorNam" to it and 
wrapped the
"ThirumaNN katti" back into banana leaf and prayed to the disciple to 
hand it over to Srimath pEriAndavan. When the disciple went back and 
reported the incident to Srimath pEriAndavan, pEriAndavan was very 
much pleased and decided that SrinivAsarAghavan swAmi was the right 
person to succeed Him as the AchAryA of the pEriAsramam. In the 
meantime, pEriAndavan's health deteriorated.

After a few days, SrinivAsarAghavan swAmi went back to Srirangam from 
vELianallur and prostated before srimath pEriAndavan and prayed to 
him that he be granted sanyAsA. With great modesty, he went through 
the explanation of qualification of oneself to take up sanyAsA 
thereby indicating his readiness for the same. Like Vibheeshana's 
conversation with Lord Sri Rama, swAmi told srimath pEriAndavan that 
he did "Sarvasanga parithyAgam", completely renouncing samsAra 
bhandham and prayed to Srimath pEriAndavan to grant Him sanyAsA. 
Srimath pEriAndavan was filled with extreme happiness to have chosen 
the right successor and granted SrinivAsarAghavan swAmi ,sanyAsA on 
an auspicious day. He was given the title "Sri PAdukA sEvaka rAmAnuja 
mahA dEsikan". Since both were AchAryAs together at the same time, 
they were fondly called as pEriAndavan and chinnAndavan by the 
sishyAs and admirers alike. This 
period lasted for a very short duration though with Srimath 
pEriAndavan reaching parama padam within 4 months of Srimath 
chinnAndavan taking up sanyAsA. 

Srimath chinnAndavan was serving as guiding light of the sampradaya 
and authored rarest of several granthAs when he was the AchAryA of 
the periAsramam? They are as follows: 

1. AhnikArtha prakAsikai 
2. Sri Jayanthi nirNayam 
3. ukthyAchArya nishtA vichAram 
4. sathpadha rakshai 
5. JanmAshtami nirNayam 
6. thathkrathu nyAya vichAram 
7. AchArya sambhAvanA kramam 
8. yathi dharama samucchayam 
9. Aasowcha sangraham 

Sishya parampara 

Several erudite scholars became the disciples of 
srimath chinnAndavan, foremost being 

1. EyuNNi Sri VaradAchAr swami ( who later became 
ThErezhundur Srimath NammAndavan) 
2. Sri villiputhur AmmALAchAR swami 
3. vidwAn uKKur SrinivAsarAghavAchAr swami 
4. Akkur SrinivAsAchAriAr swami 
5. vidwAn Thenbirai rAmabhadrAchAriAr swami(who later 
became Srimath thenbirai Andavan) 


yAthrA and attaining ThirunAdu

Srimath chinnAndavan traveled to Sri kAnchi from Srirangam and gave 
several sampradAyic pravachanams( discourses) during His yAthrA and 
came back to 
Srirangam. 

Srimath ChinnAndavan attained ThirunAdu at the age of 68 leaving 
behind grieving disciples in the year Vijaya(1895), on the sukla 
sapthami thithi in the tamil month of Thai. 
===============================================================



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