Pasuram24-anru ivvulagam
anru ivvulagam aLandhAi adi pOttri
chenranguthennilangai chettrAi thiral pOttri
ponracchagaam udhaitthai pugazpottri
kanru kuNila erindhai kazal pOttri
kunrukudaiyai edutthAi guNam pOttri
venru pagai kedukkum nin kayil vel pOttri
enrenrum un sEvagamE EtthipparaikoLvAn
inru yAm vandhOm irangElorempavai
Glory to your feet ! You measured this world once.You went and conquered Lanka, we praise your valour. You kicked the cartwheel, glory to you. You killed the asura who came as a calf by using him as a catapult.Praise to your feet! We praise your mercy in holding the hill as an umbrella. The spear in your hand be praised for its vanquishing the enemies.We have come today to serve you ever and obtain your grace Have mercy on us.
When the Lord arrived and is seated on his throne, offered by the devotion of Andal, she forgot to talk about 'vandha kAriyam,' for which she entreated Him to listen in the prevoius pasuram and started praising Him offering mangalASAsanam, saying pOtri,pOtri. After all she is the daughter of Periazvar who sang PallAndu for the Lord. The episodes mentioned here praise the glory of His feet and the mangalASAsana seems to be the talisman for the trouble His feet underwent.
1. anru ivvulagam aLandhAi- The episode of Mahabali is mentioned here.The Lord had promised that He will not kill any descendant of Prahlada and hence punished Mahabali by sending Him to pAthAla.Moreover
2.senrangu thennilangai chettrai- If Rama wanted to kill RavaNa he could have done it from AyodhyA itself and need not have taken the trouble of going to the forest at all. But He went to dhandakaraNya in order to give refuge to the rshis there.So the feet which walked all the way to DhandakAraNya are praised here. Thennilangai chettrai does not mean that Rama destroyed Lanka because he did not. He has given Lanka to VibheeshaNa already and would not harm it.The word means, then=beautiful , nilam = country, kai= kaikkonda , one who had it in his hands, that is, Ravana. So the phrase means ' praise be to you who destroyed Ravana.'
3. ponracchgadam udhaitthai-Another feat of the feet, kicking the wheel of the cart, to kill the asura who was disguised therein.Srimadbhagavatham says that YasOdha did not believe the words of the boys who said that the cart went to pieces because
4. kanru kunilA erindhAi-It was the arms which threw the asura who came in the form of a calf but Andal praises his feet, kazal pOttri, because when he threw up the calf, the posture he was standing in drew the attention to his graceful and lotus-like feet.
5. kunru kudaiyai edutthai- Here also his feet are to be praised because it is the feet the gopas surrendered when oppressed by deluge-like rain.Krishna held the mountain as an umbrella which means that he grasped it with all his fingers and inverted it like an umbrella. The words in Bhagavatha 'cchathraakam iva ' like an umbrella has been taken to imply that He inverted the mountain, by Desika and Azvar.
In srimadbhagavatha the lifting of the mountain is described thus. 'Ithyukthvaa ekena hasthenakrthvaa govardhanaachalam dhadhaara leelayaa krishnah cchathraakamiva baalakah'
The word pOttri repeated six times denotes that
According to vaishanva sampradhaya this word pOtri repeated six times denote the six angas, constituents of saranagathi. These will be elaborated in the commentary of the pasuram 'malE maNivaNNa.'
anru----alandhai- the whole world has the stamp of His foot to which the devotee do parapatthi, that is, saranagathi.
Senrangu thennilangai chettrai-then=beautiful, nilam- field, khethram which means the body, as mentioned in the Gita, 'idham sariram kounthEya kshEthramithyabhidheeyathE, this sarira is called kshethram.' kai denotes the mind which has sarira in its control. The Lord subdues the mind and leads it along the right path which is meant by chettrai.
ponracchagadam udhaitthAi- The wheel of karma which He destroys (ponra)
kanru kuNila erindhai-He throws away the sins which come is succession like calving.
kunrum kudaiyai edutthai-He protects with His grace like an umbrella from the shower of sins .
Nin kaiyil vEl- his will is like the spear removes the obstacles to His service.
All this is achieved by surrendering to His feet.
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