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. > azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ramanuja/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: ramanuja-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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