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Sri:
Srimathe Ramanujaya Nama:

Dear BhAgavatas,

Something caught my attention in the beautiful posting by
Sri Venkat Iyengar, which I had missed in the past.

--- venkat iyengar <vsiyengar@xxxx> wrote:
>
> Thiruppavai Muppadhaum cheppinaal Vaazhiye
> **********

Note the use of the "um" in the muppathum word. Why was 
this included? One would expect the phrase would go

thiruppavai muppathu seppinAL vAzhiyE

along the lines of

oru nURRu nArpaththi mUnRu (uraiththAL vAzhiyE).

where there is no "um" added to the mUnRu.


I think the reason is that the thirty songs of thiruppavai
are complete in all respects in what they set out to teach
us. That is, it is no more than 30 and no less than 30
(no wonder, our acharyas declare that "kOdhai thamizh 
aiainthum ainthum aRiyAtha mAnidarai vaiyam sumappathum 
vambu"). The thirty together are the essence of all the 
Vedas. The same cannot be said of the 143 verses of 
Nacchiyar Thirumozhi.


An interesting point here is the verse

vEdham anaiththukkum viththAgum

Now, we all know the seed ("viththu") comes ahead of the
tree. So, how come Thiruppavai, which was definitely 
after the Vedas, come to be declared as the seed of the 
Vedas?
Again, I think that the fact that the contents of the
entire Vedas, which took even Swami Nammazhvar, 1000+
verses to condense, was squeezed into a mere thirty by 
our divine mother Sri Goda. That is why, it must have 
been declared as the seed - since it is so compact and
contains everything.

I look forward to corrections to my above ramblings. More
importantly it would be great if someone could post our
pUrvacharya vyakhyanams of these two phrases.

adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan
TCA Venkatesan
http://www.acharya.org

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