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Dear Sri Rajagopalan ,
 
Thanks very much for inviting the attention of  devotees to the difficult situation at ThiruppErnagar dhivya desam . It is sad to hear about the struggle of the Archakar Swamin at ThiruppErnagar to provide even daily naivEdhyam for PerumAL .
 
Dear AasthikAs and Dhivya Desa AbhimAnis:
 
Please read the note  from Sriman Rajagopalan at the end first and continue w thereafter with
the rest of my Mail.Thanks. 
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Two years ago , I visited this dhivya dEsam on the southern bank of Cauvery river .PerumAL is AppakkudatthAn  , who is blessing us from Bhujanga Sayana ThirukkOlam . He has a pot of Appam ( Fried specialty from rice flour and Jaggery) .Appam is His special food . Appams are of many kinds : Neyyappam , VeLLayappam , Sojjiappam , Paalappam .The NaivEdhyam is probably Neyyappam , which is made with fermented rice flour , Jaggery and ghee . This is a snack dear to KaNNan and prepared on GokulAshtami days.
 
At this dhivya dEsam equidistant from BhUtalUr and Laalgudi , PerumAL blesses with His serene sevai with Kamalavalli ThAyAr ,while resting under Indhra VimAnam and holding under His right hand a pot of appams and earning the name of AppakkudatthAn .
 
Four AzhwArs ( PeriyAzhwar, Thirumazhisai, Thirumangai and Swamy NammAzhwAr) have performed their MangaLaasAsanams at this dhivya dEsam with 33 Paasurams :
 
1) PeriyAzhwAr : 2.6.1: ( kOl koNDu vaa Paasurams):
 
" Kongum Kudanthayum KottiyUrum PErum
  Yengum tirinthu viLayAdum yenn mahan
  Sankam paidikkum Tadakkakikkut-takka , nall
  angamudayathOr kOll koNDu vaa
      arakku VazhitthathOr kOll koDu vaa
 
" PEr" here stands for ThiruppEr Nagar dhivya dEsam .
 
PeriyAzhwAr :2.9.4: Baala Kreedai Paasuram: KaNNa PirAn KaRRa Kalvi
 
KONdalvaNNA ! ingE pOtarAyE !  KoyiR-PiLLAy ingE pOtarAyE !
TeNDirai Soozh ThiruppEr Kidantha ThirunAraNA ingE pOtarAyE !
UnduvantEnammaenRu solliyOdi aham puha Aaycchi taanum
kaNDetirE senRedutthukkoLLak-KaNNapirAn KaRRa Kalvi taanE 
 
2)Thirumazhisai AzhwAr:Naanmuhan ThiruvandhAti: 36th Paasuram
 
NaahatthaNaik-Kudanthai Vehhaa ThiruvevvuLL
NaahattaNaiyarangam PEr-anbil
naahataNaip-pArrkkadal kidakkumAdhi nedumAL
aNaippAr KarutthanAvan 
 
3) Thirumangai AzhwAr MangaLAsAsanams:
 
After MangaLAsAsanam of Sri Ranganathan at Srirangam , Kaliyan arrives at ThiruppEr Nagar and enjoys the Lord's anugraha sakti . AzhwAr celebrates the anugrahams that he recieved from the soulabhyam and Dayaa of AppakkudatthAn of ThiruppEr Nagar :
" YengaL Maal IRaivan nAmamEtthi naan UyntavARE " , Vaanavar Talaivan Naamam Vaazhtthi naann uyntavARE , Chakakrac-chelvan ThenthiruppErt-Talaivan taaLadainthu uythEnE". Thirumangai sees and enjoys the Lord as KaNNan :
 
" VeNNaithAnamuthu seyya vekuNDu-mattAycchiyOcchi 
   KaNNiyAr KuRnkayiRRAl kattavettenRirunthAn ".
 
One can see now the connection to his  favorite food  VeNNai and its necessity to 
spread on the Appam from His Kudam . 
 
Thirumangai praises the glories of ThiruppEr NagarALan thru 9 more exquisite Paasurams .  
 
4) Swamy NammAzhwAr: 11 Paasurams of ThiruvAimozhi: 10.8
 
At the time of Swamy NammAzhwAr , this dhivya dEsam was surrounded by  " KodikkOpura-mAdangaL " and " KiLi taaviya sOlaikaL". Swamy NammAzhwar says in wonderment : " The Lord of ThiruppErnagar today came into my heart , filled it thoroughly  and announced --I will not stir out from here--" . AzhwAr responds and states that he has contained the Lord in his heart lotus.
 
In the next Paasuram , SatakOpar says: " I clung to the Lord's feet fast . Thereby , I could eliminate births in future. ( PiditthEn PiRavi kedutthEn PiNi saarEn )." Azhwar rejoices over the experience of having the Lord of ThiruppEr Nagar entering and staying inside his heart and declares: " My eyes rejoice , all my limbs rejoice; my heart revels and dances . What all these limbs longed for long to enjoy has come about. All this was conferred on me by the Lord of ThirppEr Nagar". AzhwAr hears the Lord saying " I am granting you Parama Padham " and says" great undeed is my good fortune. To me who has enjoyed Him thus , what more is wanted hereafter . He has made me today a worthy substance. I am grateful to His grace for this ? ".
 
ThiruppEr Nagar was the last dhivya dEsam that Swamy NammAzhwAr performed MangaLAsAsanam before gaining Moksham . In this next decad , he describes his travel thru archirAdhi maargam (ThiruvAimozhi 10.9) and the next one, the final decad , he concludes with the last Paasuram of ThiruvAimozhi in  a mood of Parama Bhakthi:
" Oh indweller of Moola Prakriti and Mukta Jeevans ! Oh the unique possessor of sankalpa Jn~Ana , which extends even beyond the above two and exist as pure and intrinsic Ananda! My yearnig to join You was even larger than Your sankalp Jn~Ana in magnitude . But You covered me up , quenched this yearning . I became a drop in Your vastness of nectar ocean. My long time ambition has been fulfilled ".
 
The ThiruppEr Nagar MangaLAsAsanam of Swamy NammAzhwAr occupies thus a key place in ThiruvAimozhi and NammAzhwAr's Moksham . It is so sad to read about the current state of affairs at such a glorious dhivya dEsam . 
 
Please help by sending what ever you can to Sannidhi Kaimkaryam Sri Varadaraja Iyengar  Swamy  thru Sri Sriraman of Chennai , who is copied on this note . He can size up the local situation and can help coordinate the flow of funds to help . Please do not go away after helping once. Please adopt this temple as the Lord has adopted us and is protecting us wherever we are . 
 
The HayagrIvan Likhita Kaimkarya committe is preparing new ebooks on Sayanak-Kola
dhivya dEsa EmperumAns and we plan to include ThiruppEr Nagar dhivya dEsam as  
the subject matter of our next ebook in the series :
 
http://www.srihayagrivan.org
 
SrI Kamalavalli SamEta Sri AppakkudatthAn ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,
DhAsan , Oppiliappan Koil V.Sadagopan                      
 
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Raja" <rajagopalan.c@xxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 4:05 AM
Subject: [divya_desam] Temple Renovation Request

> In January I visited a number of temples near Mayavaram
> (Vaidheeswaran Koil, Koothanoor, Thirumayyichoor, Srirangam and
> Koviladi).
>
> Among these the famous temple at TirupperNagar (Koviladi) is in a
> very bad state, and renovation is being planned. This is EIGHTH
> among the 108 divya desams.
>
> There is one family taking care of the temple and the Gurukkal & his
> wife told me that it is becoming increasingly difficult even to make
> the Neivedhyams on a daily basis. The Neivedhyam here is 'Appams',
> and the reclining Lord is known as 'Appakudathaan'.
>
> If wish to contribute to the temple, please send in your donations directly to:
>
> Shri V. Varadaraja Iyengar, Sannadhi Kainkaryam,
> Koviladi Aghraharam, Koviladi, 631 105,
> Thanjavur District, TamilNadu, India
>
> Raja


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