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
Oppiliappan Koil Varadachari Sadagopan http://www.sadagopan.org
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