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Dear Shri Varadhan,
Thanks for continuing this thread for some more time.
Kindly allow me to enlighten Shri.Vijaysarathy and many more others 
of his kind and clear their doubts, if at all genuine.

Dear Shri.Vijaysarathy,

If you consider the  the physical appearance of the vigrahams alone -
vigrahams  of Acharyas with right hand  in upadEsa mudra and left 
hand holding the sacred text is not the copyright for Vedanta Desika 
vigrahams alone. You  many note that the vigrahams of Nathamunigal, 
Periya Nambi and Pillai Lokacharya also appear thus. 
The vigraham of Sri Desika at Kanchi Varadarajaswamy temple and the 
idol of Sri Desika at the Tiruvallur temple can,  by the above 
logic,  be taken to be that of Sri Pillai Lokacharya.

Moreover have you seen the Molavar vigraham of svAmi emperumAnAr in 
Kanchi and that of the Molavar vigraham  of svAmi emperumAnAr 
(Thanana Thirumeni) in Srirangam and that in Thirukkurungudi  - all 
are with right hand in preceptor's pose (upadEsa mudra ) and left 
holding the sacred text. So is that of svAmi emperumAnAr in Thondanur.

Before trying to draw some vague analogy with the vigraham of swami 
Manavalamamunigal - note that in Srirangam all utsavar idols of 
Acharyas will be with Anjali Hastham ( in your words koopiya 
karangal ) only. 
This is only to bring out that the vigrahams ( Molavar and Utsavar ) 
of Acharyas  in every divya desam has some significance unique to 
that place, which elders of that divya desam alone can explain.

Ofcourse, people ,who so far till recently ,had no raditional link / 
attachment with
divya desams, initially, can fall into a trap - like the one you have 
fallen,  because they did not have the chance of association with the 
practices and customs unique with that sketram. So when someone comes 
and tells them otherwise they accept it without realising that the 
logic is flawed.
 Your  logic is defeated, because your physical  observation of 
the vigraham,  on which you have based your conclusion is wrong!!!
If at all you have observed the vigraham more closely, you would not 
have hurried to make such outlandish statements with an intention of 
creating mischievous, malignant distortions. If only you had taken 
time to observe the vigraham more closely you would have not missed 
the following :-

1) The vigraham of svAmi emperumAnAr is present with the right hand in
upadEsa mudra , but
2) The left hand holds nothing and is left uncovered. So the analogy 
that it is of Sri Desika collapses because universally all Sri Desika 
vigrahams is supposed to hold the sacred text in left palm.

In your next visit to tirumala kindly  observe closely the vigraham 
of svAmi emperumAnAr.
So, please do a little homework before you try to pose innocent 
questions borne out of genuine thirst for knowledge.
 Elders recall that such kattu kadhais are in vogue for some time 
now, and such myths have been exploded time and again, only to 
resurface after some time. In this case of tirumala it was 
sucessfully propagated for some time that the left hand was holding 
the sacred texts but purposefully hidden within the folds of the 
Saffron robe!!! In those days it seems that people propogating such 
blasphemy and in order to make it appear genuine even invited their 
innocent listeners to take a trip to Tirumala at their cost and 
verify the truth, and when challenged ran for cover. It only proves 
that such people nor their forefathers were never associated with 
svAmi emperumAnAr sannidhi in Tirumala, otherwise they would never 
have dared to propagate such blasphemy.

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,
Narasimhan


--- In ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "tavaradhan" <tavaradhan@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> srImathE rAmAnujAya namah
> 
> dear srI dhivya nAdhan,
> 
> I encourage you not to make conclusions based on baseless 
hypotheses 
> (kattu kadhais) that people propogate due to sectarian reason.
> 








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