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Dear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer,
 
I was going through the mudhal thiru andhaadhi paasurams for their specialties 
[of poigai aazhvaar] as suggested by my good friend sri T.Madhavan swamy of 
triplicane. I was struck by the greatness of this wonderful paasuram no 74, 
which I want to share with you all.

[Incidentally sri madhavan swamy is also the proofreader of the 4000 
prabhandham book published by sri vara mangai naachchiyaar sabha triplicane 
chennai. This is the book, which I refer / use regularly].

First the lines of paasuram no 74. 

ERRaan puLLoornthaan eyileriththaan maarvidanthaan
neeRRaan nizhal maNi vaNNaththaan - kooRRorupaal
mangaiyaan poo magaLaan vaar sadaiyaan neeL mudiyaan
gangaiyaan neeL kazhalaan kaappu. 

As stated in this aazhvaar's thanian he is really a kavignar pOr Eru - a 
warring lion, or a warring ox - rishabham - among poets - a "poet par 
excellence". These words aptly and fully describe the marvel in this paasuram. 
Nowlet us go into the details how this verse is great.

1.      In the first line, there are four words, fours past tense verbs - 
vinaich choRkaL. In the next three lines four pairs of nouns are given 
[ezhuvaai]. [Just to recall, in the previous post on the special paasuram it 
was first two lines nouns and second two lines verbs]. Here the same is in 
reverse order.

The order of giving four verbs is another special viz. The first and thirdverbs 
are pertaining to sivan's actions. The second and fourth verbs are pertaining 
to naaraayaNan's actions.

Similarly the four pairs of nouns in lines 2, 3, and four are also in the same 
alternating way - first sivan, then naaraayaNan, third sivan, fourth 
naaraayaNan, and so on.

This is one specialty in the paasuram construction.

Now let us see how it is appearing actually.

Related to sivan        related to naaraayaNan
verbs
ERRaan puLLoornthaan 
eyileriththaan maarvidanthaan

nouns
neeRRaan nizhal maNi vaNNaththaan 
kooRRorupaal mangaiyaan poo magaLaan 
vaar sadaiyaan neeL mudiyaan
gangaiyaan neeL kazhalaan 

Now mix the 2 verbs and the four nouns of sivan - you have eight sentenceseach 
standing on its own. Similar is for naaraayaNan.

sivan:
neeRRaan ERRaan                         
neeRRaan eyileriththaan 

kooRRorupaal mangaiyaan ERRaan  
kooRRorupaal mangaiyaan eyileriththaan                  

vaar sadaiyaan ERRaan           
vaar sadaiyaan eyileriththaan

gangaiyaan ERRaan 
gangaiyaan eyileriththaan

naaraayaNan:
nizhal maNi vaNNaththaan puLLoornthaan 
nizhal maNi vaNNaththaan maarvidanthaan 

poo magaLaan puLLoornthaan
poo magaLaan maarvidanthaan

neeL mudiyaan puLLoornthaan
neeL mudiyaan maarvidanthaan

neeL kazhalaan puLLoornthaan
neeL kazhalaan maarvidanthaan

2.      Coming to the second specialty in the paasuram construction

Related to sivan        related to naaraayaNan  specialty in common between two

ERRaan puLLoornthaan vaahanam - vehicle 

eyileriththaan maarvidanthaan   act of destruction

neeRRaan nizhal maNi vaNNaththaan colour of body

kooRRorupaal mangaiyaan poo magaLaan identity with wives

vaar sadaiyaan neeL mudiyaan    hair care

gangaiyaan neeL kazhalaan body part special

How it is, we will be able to appreciate more, when we take the meaning.

Now to go for meanings: 

ERRaan - (1) sivan, (2) one who accepted, (3) one who has the ox as his 
transport vehicle - ERu +aan - ERu - the rishaBham - the kaaLai. 

puLLoornthaan - to be split as puL oornthaan - one who travels on the bird- puL 
- garudan - oornthaan - crawled - garudan does not crawl but flies -it is 
poetic license to say flying as oorthal - crawling. 

eyil eriththaan - burnt the boundary wall of thripuram - eyil means boundary 
wall - madhiL suvar.

maarvidanthaan - maarbu idanthaan - broke open the chest - ba - va 
interchanging is permitted both in tamil and sanskrit grammar.

neeRRaan - thiruneeru poosiyavan - one who adorns the sacred ashes all over his 
body and by virtue of that white colour in appearance

nizhal maNi vaNNaththaan - nizhal is shadow, mani is gem, vaNNaththaan is 
coloured person - here it means one who is dark in colourand shiny, like the 
blue jaguar.

kooRRorupaal mangaiyaan - kooru is part of the body, oru paal is one 
side,mangaiyaan is one who possess/ has the lady -full meaning - one who has 
the lady in part of his body - ardha naareesvaran. 

poo magaLaan - poo is flower, magal is daughter, magaLaan is one who owns her - 
one who owns the daughter of the flower - mahaalakshmi - born out of lotus 
flower.
         
vaar sadaiyaan - vaar is belt - sadai is the hairdo - one who has his hairdo in 
belt like strips.

neeL mudiyaan - one who has long hairdo.

gangaiyaan - one who supports river ganges in his head.

neeL kazhalaan - one who has very long foot - in his thrivikarama avathaaram 
lord had such a big foot that the whole world was measured with his one foot. 
Such big feeted lord.

Now go back to each of the 16-word combination above, and you will be ableto 
appreciate the uniqueness in this paasuram.

3.      This 'nizhal maNi vaNNaththaan' is a very special usage available here. 
Nizhal is shadow and is always dark and cool. MaNi is gem and bright in colour. 
Sri uththamoor swamy quotes nizhal mani is blue coloured gem which hasblue 
cool, at the same time bright rays. Neela neeradha samaneeyan.

4.      nizhal maNi vaNNaththaan' - How dark shadow and bright gem both can be 
combined. Just think of 'agalagillEn enru alarmEl mangai uRai maarba' - she is 
golden hued. She shines as a bright gem in the chest of the dark body ofthe 
lord. That is why this special usage of nizhal maNi vaNNaththaan. Learned 
bhagavathaas can quote availability of this particular 'special' usage in other 
paasurams.

5.      This nizhal maNi vaNNaththaan' and kooRRorupaal mangaiyaan can also be 
attributed to naaraayaNan, for when she is inseparable from the chest, 
naturally she also forms part of his body - mangaikku oru kooru koduththavan 
thaanE. Then that is also another additional special point here.

Hope it is enjoyable. We will see more from mudhal thiru andhaadhi in 
subsequent post.

Dhasan

Vasudevan m.g.





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