SrI:
Dear ANDAL BhakthAs :
During the 1999 Aadi Pooram celebrations , adiyEn posted an article
which is reproduced below and updated . It has substantive references on
the Vaibhavam of GodhA PirAtti . Please browse them . There are
many beautiful pictures of Godhai and SrivilliputthUr there .
BhakthAs of Godhai from all parts of the world are requested to
Participate since this Mutthangi in planning stage will be made up of
four kinds of pearls and will be used by GodhA Piratti on number of
Her Uthsavam days through out the year . Those in India can send their
samarpaNams to GodhA PriyA Society of West Mambalam , Chennai
and others can send their pledges to adiyEn .
ThiruppAvai recitation , detailed meanings of the ThiruppAvai Paasurams
are at the URL :
http://home.comcast.net/~mkkmkk/thiruppavy
Rest of the references on SrivilliputthUr , NaacchiyAr Thirumozhi
and ANDAL's Vaibhavam are provided below .
Please join in the Mutthangi Kaimkaryam for Soodikkoduttha
NaachiyAr this year on Her avathAra dinam at SrivilliputthUr .
Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan
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Friday , August 13,1999
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Dear BhakthAs :
Today is Pramathi Aadi 28th day ; Sukla Paksha
DhvithIyai , Poora nakshthram, Siddha Yogam preside .
We will start with our salutation to our
dear Mother presiding over Her RaajadhAni
at SheNbhagAraNya KshEthram (Sri Villiputthur):
Srimathyai VishNuchitthArya
ManOnandhana hEthavE
Nandha nandhana Sundaryai
GodhAyai NITHYA MANGALAM
Our ThAyAr would be uncomfortable unles we
offer our slautations to Her Lord , "Vada Perum-
Koil UdayAn " for whom She adorned the Flower
galands and then sent them to Him .Let us hence offer
our slautations to Him on this day ,who is
the reason behind Her name , "Soodik Koduttha NaacchiyAr":
Sri BhattanAtha SUrIndhra
MaanasAmbhOja vaasinE
Srimath VaDa MahAdhAma
SwaminE NITHYA MANGALAM
Prior to procceding with the other parts of
the posting , let us salute Sri Andal"s dear
father , who brought her up with great love
and gave her hand in marriage to Sri RangamannAr :
Sri Dhanvi NagarAdhIsa
MangaLAsAsinO anisam
NirNItha Para tattvAya
VISHNUCHITTHAAYA MANGALAM
Approximately 700 years ago , Swami Desikan
arrived at Sri VilliputthUr on a pradhOsham day and
performed His MangaLAsAsanam for Sri Godhai through his
GodhA sthuthi. We will salute later Sri Godhai
in the words of Swami Desikan himself (Part 2).
Prior to that, adiyEn will attempt to summarize
some source information of value for Andal BhakthALs.
Please remember that according to our AchAryAs,
Andal is PrAdhanyam (most important)
in Archai ,Sri Devi is PrAdhAnyam
in Parama Padham , BhU Devi is PrAdhAnyam in
VarAhAvathAram and Nappinnai is PrAdhAnyam in
KrishNAvathAram .We will be focusing on AndaL ,
whose other names are Bhumi Devi, Vasumathi,
KshamA , Sarvam SahA to list a few .
SOURCE INFORMATION ON ANDAL/BHU DEVI
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Sriman Venkat Iyengar of Kharagpur and Sriman MadhavakkaNNan
of Singapore have already offered their moving slautations to
our ThAyAr on Her Thirunakshathram . Here are some things
we can do on this auspicious day :
(1)On this day , we should recite Swami Desikan's
GodhA Sthuthi once . The slOkams and meanings are
available at :
http://www.sadagopan.org/acharyans/sd8.htm
(2)We should look at the most beautiful
pictures of Andal, Sri RangamannAr ,Vatapathra Saayee ,
Sri Villiputthur Divya desam at the Srivilliputthur
Home pages assembled with such love and adoration
by a native of Srivilliputthur ,(viz)., Setaloor
SendalangAra Daasan Venkat S.Iyengar . The URL for
your browsing pleasure is:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/7673
This is an amazing compendium on the Divya Desam
of Sri Villiputthur and its Vaibhavam .The Chennai
GodhA priyA committe has been offering many AabharaNa
Kaimkaryams to Godhai and Sri RangamannAr over
the years and you will have the darsanam of
some of the AabharaNams there on our Thiru ThAyAr.
(3)The third source Information of is the Sri Vaishnava
home pages maintained with great care by Sriman Mani-
VaradarAjan :: http://www.ramanuja.org
Here, please look under the "What is New " section
under the subtitle AzhwArs and pick the hyperlink
on Andal.A wonderful summary of Her life and Her Sri Sookthis
are covered along with lovely images of Her Archai in
the company of Her Lord .
(4)The fourth source of information on Andal is that
assembled for the 1996 Marghazhi ThiruppAvai celebrations
by adiyEn under the title of " Contributed articles
on Andal (http://www.best.com/~mani/new/tp96/pavai96.html/
The greatness of Andal , the Vedic doctrines and
their links to Her Sri Sookthis are covered there .
(5)The fifth source of information for Andal BhakthAs
is the ongoing series of wonderful writings on
NaacchiyAr Thirumozhi by Srimathi KalyANi Krishnamachari
of Illinois. Sri Mani Varadarajan has created a special
section in the Sri Vaishnava pages . The most recent postings
are in the Bhakthi archives. Srimathi Krishnamachari is
at the 9th Patthu dealing with Sri Sundararaajan of
ThirumAlirumchOlai. Please read particularly the AndaL's
VaaraNamAyiram Paasuram section , where She describes with great
joy to Her friends the dream in which she married Her Lord.
The URl for Smt. KalyANi Krishnamachari's postings on
NaacchiyAr Thirumozhi is :
http://www.comcast.net/~vanamali1
(6)The Sixth source of information on AndAL ( Incarnation of
Bhumi Devi ) is the home page for Sri Oppiliappan put
together by Sriman ShrEyas Saarangan with the capable
assistance of Sri S.Rengarajan :
http://www.oppiliappan.org
Here the AndaL of Oppiliappan Koil and Sri TannoppArillappan
offer us their darsanams with divyAbharaNams like RathnAngi,
Mutthangi, MaaNickka KoNdai et al.
SrimathE GodhAyai NamO Nama:
Daasan , Oppilaippan Sannadhi V.Sadagopan
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