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Srimathe Ramanujaya nama:

Dear Nappinnai:

Sorry about the delayed response.

Both Acharyan and thAyAr (as Sri Venkateshan eloquently described in 
an earlier message) have a very important role in our sampradAyam, 
i.e., purushakAratvam. Swamy madhura kavi and godha piRATTi 
underscore the role of purushakArathvam in accessing perumAL's 
thiruvaDi.

Azhwars sang thiruppaLLiyazhicchi to perumAL, vishwamitra did so for 
chakravarthitthirumagan, only AnDAL has the thani sirappu (lone 
glory) that she sang thiruppaLLiyazhicchi to Bhagavathas (thiruppAvai 
6-15) before she begins to access vAnOrgaL and then talks to 
KrishNa. In doing so, she highlights the role, importance of 
bhAgavathas, Acharyan in purusing perumAL's feet (there is so much 
material on this issue by our Acharyas, swamy PVP et al, that we will 
need a life time just to enjoy the wonderment that our Acharyas feel 
about thAyAr, AnDAL's siRappu).

In any case, the point I was making was not about examining all these 
issues. That there is an inherent need to accept the word of swamy 
mAmunigaL, because, after all, he (and no one else) is perumAL's 
acharyan.

When swamy maNavALa mAmunigaL counts azhwars as ten, there is really 
very little need for discussion (or justification) beyond that.

aDiyEn yatheendra pravaNa dAsan,

sridhar

--- In ramanuja@xxxx, "vaidhehi_nc" <nappinnai_nc@xxxx> wrote:
> Sri:
> Srimathe Ramanujaya nama:
> 
> Dear Sridhar,
> I need clarification regarding the no. of AzhwArs. Is it 
> not 11 with the exception of Madhurakavi who sang on NammAzhwAr 
> unlike the rest who sang on PerumAL. I can understand Madhurakavi's 
> being bhAgavatha sESatvam but not ANdAL's. ANdAL's is bhagavath 
> sESatvam too. I'm not convinced by your statement of ANdAL's 
> bhAgavath sESatvam.
> 
> Relation of Madhurakavi-NammAzhwAr-PerumAL is parallel to the 
> relation of Satrugna-Bharata-SriRama 
> 
> AzhwAr EmperumAnAr Jeeyar TiruvadigaLE saraNam
> nappinnai





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