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Sri Parthasarathi thunai
Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Pranams,
"Meshe chitta samuthbhootham yethinadha padhashriyam
Sri venkatesa sathbhaktham Ananyaryamaham Bhaje"

Thanks to shri Varadan for his excellent posting on Shri Anandhazhwan on his Thirunakshatram day.
Can any of the learned members of this group please tell me what the first line in Shri Ananthazhvar's Vaazhi Thirunamam refers to? The vaazhi Thirunamam is as follows:
"malayil venkatavarkku maamanaar vaazhiye
manichudarkoon anantanena vandudhithan vaazhiye
vulagor tanjamena udithtaruluvon vaazhiye
vulagamunda maaladiyai vuganduinthan vaazhiye
ilagu chittirai thannil chitiraiyon vaazhiye
endhai ethirasar enaiyadiyon vaazhiye
alarmelmangai thiruvukku appanaar vaazhiye
Anandhazhvan thiruvadi anvaradham vaazhiye"
  I would like to know the inner meaning of the 2 lines which are underlined.

Thirumalai Ananthazhvan Thiruvadigale charanam

Alwar Emperumanar Jeeyer Thiruvadigale charanam.

Thanks in advance,

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai 

sumithra varadarajan


--- tavaradhan@xxxx wrote:
> srImathE rAmAnujAya namah
> srImathE anantArya mahAguravE namah
> srImathE krishNa sUrayE namah
>
> dear bhAgavathAs,
>
> today (chittirai-yil chittirai), is the
> thirunakshattiram of svAmi anantAzhvAn as well. Many
> other people have written about svAmi and some
> episodes of his life. The following is just a
> tidbit..
>
> the thaniyan for svami anantAzhvAn is believed
> by some of us to have been given by
> thiruvEnkadamudaiyAn Himself. The brief version of
> the hagiology is as follows:
>
> Once, there was a group of srIvaishNavAs who came
> to do maNgaLAsAsanams to the Lord - It is said that
> this group was led by srI nadAdUr ammAL from
> kAnchipuram. They were climbing up the hill to the
> temple, and were delayed due to the wildness of
> the hills and they were very tired and hungry.
> Seeing this, the Lord, not wanting to see His
> devotees suffer, came in the form of a brahmAchAri
> to provide food to the group. Naturally, srI
> nadAdUr ammAL questioned who this person was before
> partaking the food. The brahmAchAri immediately
> answered that he was the sishyA of srI anantAzhvAn,
> and that he had sent food to these srIvaishNavAs.
> Not trusting the brahmAchAri completely, srI nadAdUr
> ammAL asked him to recite the thaniyan of his
> AchArya. Then, the brahmAchAri recited as follows:
>
> "akilAtma guNAAvaasam agnyAna thimirApaham |
> aasritaanaam suSaraNam vandhE anantArya dEsikam ||"
>
> (I bow to AchArya anantAzhvAn, who is the repository
> of knowledge, mercy and wisdom, the one who
> removes ignorace and is a eminent refuge for
> disciples)
>
> srI nadAdUr ammAL then questioned how the thaniyan
> had no reference to rAmAnuja. The brahmAchAri
> replied that there were two thaniyans - one
> referring
> to the glory of anantAzhvAn and the other referring
> to his connection to rAmAnuja, and proceeded to
> recite the second
>
> "srImad rAmAnujAchArya srIpAdAmbOruha dhvayam |
> saduththamAnga sanDhAryam anantAryam aham bhajE ||"
>
> (I prostrate before anantAzhvAn who is equal to the
> lotus feet of srI rAmAnuja and who is worshipped
> by srIvaishNavAs from all over)
>
> Convinced that the brahmAchAri indeed was a sishya
> of anantAzhvAn, the srIvaishNavAs took the prasAdam
> that he brought.
>
> After arriving at thirumala, they were received by
> anantAzhvAn himself, and when this incident was
> mentioned, it was a surprise to everyone. srI
> anantAzhvAn had not sent anyone to do so, and no
> other srIvaishNava had sent anyone either. So,
> they concluded that it is indeed the LOrd Himself
> who played this act to (i) ensure that His devotees
> did not suffer and (ii) show the greatness of
> anantAzhvAn and His own affection for anantAzhvAn.
> Also, the second thaniyan shows the amount of
> reverance that srI anantAzhvAn had for rAmAnuja,
> and to this day, the "thiruvadi nilai" for rAmAnuja
> in thirumala is called "anantAzhvAn".
>
> There is an idol of anantAzhvAn in madhurakavi
> AzhvAr sannadhi in the gOvindarAja-p-perumaL temple.
> Today, srI anantAzhvAn and svAmi madhurakaviAzhvAr
> will go to the perumAL sannadhi (gOvindarAjar) and
> will be given prasAdams and honours from the Lord.
>
> adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan,
> varadhan
>
>
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