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VaikAsi VisAkam , PourNami Tithi
Kaancheepuram Garuda Sevai dinam
 
SrI PadmAvathi SamEta SrinivAsa
ParaBrahmaNae Nama:
 
SrImatE HayagrIvAya nama:
 
SrImatE RaamAnujAya nama:
 
SrImatE NigamAnta MahA DesikAya nama :
 
SrI VenaktAdhvari SvAminE nama: 


SrI:

On this Full Moon Day , when Kaanchi
VaradarAjan blesses us with His Garuda
Sevai , adiyEn seeks His anugraham
to commence the Kaimkaryam of
a new web site named "HayagrIvan"
to house the new set of108 ebooks
after poorthy of the Sundara Simham
and Ahobilavalli ebooks Kaimakryams .
 
adiyEn's sincere thanks to the Sundara
Simham and the Ahobilavalli Teams
for making ti possible to create 216
ebooks on our rich Ubhaya VedAntha
sampradhAyam .

The first ebook in the HayagrIvan
series will be SrI Lakshmi Sahasram
bequeathed to us  by MahA Kavi ,
ArasANippAlai SrI VenkatAdhvari .
He belonged to the AtrEya gOtram
and lived some 350 years ago . Great
AchAryans like KidAmbi AacchAn
( MadapaLLI AcchAn , Acharya
RaamAnujA's direct sishyar) ,
ApuLLAr (Swamy Desikan's AchAryan),
AdhivANN SaThakOpa Jeeyar ,
SaakshAth Swamy , Thirukkudanthai
Desikan ( Founder of Munithraya
sampradhAyam ) belonged to this
illustrious Vamsam according to
ChEtlUr SrIvatsAngAcchAr Swamy.
 
ArasANippAlai Swamy had His
SrI BhAshya KaalkshEpam under
Thirukkudanthia Andavan and His
BharanyAsam under the sacred 
feet of SrI SaakshAth Swamy .
 
ArasANippalai Swamy was one of
the greatest poet and author of five
champu KaavyAs, Kaavya NaatakAm ,
StOtra grantams, KaNDana grantams ,
AchArya PanchAsath on Swamy Desikan,
VyAkarana and MeemAmsa grantams.
All in all he has blessed us with 100
SrI Sooktis .

The magnum opus among all of his gifted
compositions is SrI Lakshmi Sahasram.  

SrI Lakshmi Sahasram has 25 staBakams
(chapters/flower bunches used to create
a flower garland ) . The stOtram has
1021 slOkams . These 25 staBakams echo
the thoughts of Swamy Desikan's SrI stuti
housed in the form of  25 slOkams. Each of
these staBakams start with anushtup meter
and end mostly with AryA vruttham . This
organization follows that of Swamy Desikan
in His SrI RanganAtha PaadhukA Sahasram .
ArasANippAlai swamy was a
"poet par excellence"
with extraordinary skills to swim in the oceans of
VedAnta SaastrAs and poetry . His extraordinary
skills in the play with the words and syllables
has earned him the birudhu of
" SlEsha-Yamaka
chakravarty" .
Here slEsha means use of words
with hidden double meaning and Yamakam
refers to " the use of words and syllables in
the same stanza or verse similar in sound but
with different meaning ". 
 
Sri Lakshmi Sahasram arose as a prayer
from ArasANippAlai Swamy , when he lost
his eye sight suddenly . His prayer was to
TriucchAnUr PadmAsani ThAyAr in the form
of 1021 slOkams . Thanks to the adhbhutha 
KaaruNyam of MahA Lakshmi ThAyAr ,
the poet's eye sight was restored . Even today,
people with eye problems recite SrI Lakshmi
Sahasram and seek Her karuNA kaDAksham
to cure them of their diseases .
 
Sri Krishna sabha of Mumbay released most
recently a beautiful book on SrI Lakshmi
Sahasram . U.Ve. ChetlUr SrIvatsankAcchAr
Swamy has provided a scholarly introduction
to each of the 25 chapters of this SrI sookthi
besides a general introduction . Sri PatrachAryAr
swami of SrI KrishNa Sabha  has summarized
the general introduction of SrI Chetlur Swamy ;
adiyEn will use SrI PatrAcchAr Swamy's  crisp
summary to introduce the 25 staBakams  starting
from PrAramba staBakam to Phala staBakam .
adiyEn is thankful to Sri Veeraraghavan Swamy
of Chembur for sending a copy of this book . 
 
Dr. NavalpAkkam KaNNan Swamy , who is
the Vice Chancellor of Federal University of
Hyderabad and winner of the prestigious
Ramanujam prize for Mathematics ,
continues to write every month
scholarly articles on the individual slOkams
of each staBakam in SrI Ranaganatha
PaadhukA of SrI Andavan Aasramam;
he has arrived now at chitra staBakam .
He has only three more staBakams
( sankeertana , NirvEdha and Phala
staBakams ) to conclude this Kaimkaryam .
Sriman KaNNan Swamy's writings have been an
eye opener to the great scholarship of
the NavalpAkkam AchArya Paramparai .   
 
We have already covered the 17th chapter ,
" Naama Vaibhavam " in the Sundara Simham 
ebook series ( 100th ebook ). It has 42 slOkams . 
I have followed the writings of Sriman KaNNan
Swamy there and will continue to benefit from this great
Scholar's writings in covering SrI Lakshmi Sahasram .
 
Let us now have a synopsis of the 25 chapters of 
SrI Lakshmi Sahasram based on SrIvatsAngAcchAr
Swamy's brilliant introduction . After that synopsis ,
adiyEn will take the slOkams of individual chapters
for annotated commentaries . 
 
( To Be continued ) 
 
Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan   
 
   
 
   


   

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