CONTEMPORARY
SIGNIFICANCE
Sri puthUr KrishnaswAmy iyengar next goes on to
prove that 'sanyAsi-s' of those days were all srEvaishNavites and this has been
corroborated from thol-kAppiyam.
The three charactristics of a sanyAsi,
are
1. yagjnOpavEtham;
2. thri-thaNDam;
3. maNai.
Generally, we see that srEvaishnavite
jEyar's and pontiffs have yagjnOpavEtham and thri-thaNDam.
The third aspect maNai is mentioned as
possession of any sanyAsi. They should be devoid of any attachments is the
significance.
It is indeed surprising that this aspect is very
much significant even today in this contemporary world.
The thol-kAppiyam song
"nUlEa karagam, mukkOal
maNaiyEa,
Ayum
kAlai andhaNarkku vuriya" poruL adhigAram.
The term "mukkOR
pagavargaL" oft quoted in sangam literature should be understood in the
above parlance.
I recall thiruch-chandha vrutham pAsuram in this
regard:
"....siRReyiRRu muRRal mUngil
mUnRu thaNdar onrinar,
aRRa pathar suRRi vAzhum andha nEr
arangamEA" 52
The srEavishNavites who were flocking
thiruvarangam were having thri-thANDam.
(to be continued)
vanamamalai padmanabhan
azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam
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