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SrImatE rAmAnujAya namah

Dear Bhagavatottamas,

namaskAram.

As ordered by SrImAn C.Rangarajan swAmI, Committee Member, Sri Udayavar 
Kainkarya Sabha, Triplicane, I am sending you the following appeal.

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan
Srimahavishnu Vinjamuri

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Sri Parthasarathy Swamy Temple, Thiruvallikkeni, has a special importance in 
the life of Sri Ramanuja, the founder of Visishtadwaita philosophy. As per 
sthala puraanam, Sri Pillailogam Jeeyar Swamy in his work "Ramanuja Divya 
Charithai" has stated that Sri Asoori Kesava Somayaji, father of Sri Ramanuja, 
performed Putrakaameshti Yagam here at Kairavini praying to the Lord 
Parthasarathy to bless Him with a son. Lord Himself appeared in his dream and 
blessed him and informed him that He Himself would be born as his Son in order 
to give real import of teachings of His Gita for the benefit of mankind.

In conformity of the above tradition and in accordance with the customs of this 
temple, during the annual festival, Sri Udayavar has independent processions 
both in the morning and evening with Mandapapadi at Gangai Kondan Mandapam 
including on Satthumurai day. During the ten days of annual festival, Sri 
Udayavar is housed in the Kannadi Arai (Glass Room) on equal footing with Lord 
Parthasarathi (during brahmotsavam).

In addition to conducting monthly and annual festivals of Sri Udayavar, our 
Sabha has periodically presented ThiruAbharanams like Karna patram, Anjali 
hastam, Yagnopaveetam, Hasti kireetam, Gemset tridandam to be adorned on 
festival days, ordinary Thridandam for daily use and Nalmuthu Kondai. Last 
year, we presented Velvet Pannagam fully decorated with embroidary work for the 
big golden pallanquin and a complete Seelai set (Kalasam, umbrella, Thumbai, 
Kooralam Corner Flags etc.) for use in the small car (Ratham) of the temple. 

In our temple, Lord Parthasarathi has Sri Sadagopam made out of gold. Two years 
back,Sadagopam made of gold called Ponnadiyam Senkamalam was presented to 
Acharya Sri Manavala Mamunigal by Sri Manavala Mamunigal Kainkarya Sabha. 
Considering the importance of Sri Udayaver in this temple, in the last general 
body meeting, members keenly felt the absence of a golden Sri Sadagopam called 
"Mudaliyandan" for Sri Ramanuja and in order to fulfil the long felt need, all 
members of the Sabha resolved unanimously to make collections to prepare and 
present the golden Mudaliyandan to Sri Udayavar at the earliest.

Total cost of the project is roughly estimated to be Rs. 4 lakhs.

We appeal to all philanthropic public, members and devotees to avail the golden 
opportunity and come forward with libveral contributions of not less than Rs. 
1000/- for the noble kainkaryam and also to request their relatives and friends 
both in India and abroad to contribute. Persons donating Rs. 5000/- and above 
will be presneted with a valuable memento. This can also be paid in instalments.

This appeal may be treated as personal request and donations many be sent 
either in cash or cheque or DD drawn in favour of "Sri Udayavar Kainkarya 
Sabha" and sent to Secretary, 12, Arumuga Chetty Lane, Triplicane, Chennai - 
600005. The receipt will be sent promptly.

On completion of the work "Sri Mudaliyandan" will be displayed at the temple 
and all the donors will be invited to have a close look at it and thereafter it 
will be presented to the temple.

We request your full cooperation to make our endeavour a success and receive 
the blessings of Lord Parthasarahy and Sri Udayavar, the foremost of our 
Acharyas.

Managing Committe Members
Phone: 91-44-8440550


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