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The subscribers to the Sri Ramanuja internet, and the
entirety of Srivaishnava-s outside of it, are in a
debt of gratitude to Sri N.S. Padmanabhan svami, for
reminding us of the ?SatAbhishEka mahOtsavam?
(December 8 2004) of Sri ?Sudarsanar? (Puthur) S.
Krishnaswami aiyyangar svami.   

Sri NSP?s steady ?adhyApaka-GoshThee kainkaryam? in
the festivals of the tiru-alli-k-kENi divya-dESam is
the self-evident propellant for his other equally
vital ?kainkaryam? of aruLi-c-cheyal expositions.

Sri NSP has favoured us with an 8-part sketch of
Sudarsanar?s milestone contributions to our
?sampradAyam?, as under ~

(1) publications are of various categories: 
(2) sangath thamizh sudharsaNar
(3) 'thirumAl' The Lord of all the Regions

(4) 'thirumAl' the Lord of marudham also 
(5) ThirumAl the Lord of neidhal nilam
(6) CONTEMPORARY SIGNIFICANCE
(7) sriman nArAyaNa - the root of creation 
     thirumAl the only Lord who can grant salvation.
(8) "srEmAn" - the person who has wealth of good
words,            
     nalla vArthai-AgiRa sollai vudaiyavan.

In this context, I wish to make mention of my own
booklet entitled ?Word in Fragrance? published by Sri
A. Krishnamachari Svami of the ?SriVaishnavaSri? 214
East Uttara St., Srirangam-620006 (akchari@xxxxxxxx)

This publication is an amplification of my paper [on
the Contribution of S. Krishnaswamy Aiyyangar to
Srivaishnava Exegetic Tradition].  The paper was
presented to the Seminar (17-19 February 2002) on
Srivaishnava Commentary Tradition, organized by that
extraordinary visionary, Prof. M.A.
Lakshmi-tatacharya, Director of the Academy of
Sanskrit Research, Melkote.

I was given to understand that this booklet will be
issued as part of the Sudarsanar-SatAbhishEkam
souvenir.

The booklet (of 28 pages) is in 3 parts.  It starts
with a brief factual biographical write-up on ?Puthur?
Sudarsanar svami. This is followed by somewhat
detailed recapitulation of the Srivaishnava?vyAkhyA?
tradition, organized under the following captions ~
·       vyAkhyA and sampradAyam.
·       The Srivaishnava Tradition.
·       The vyAkhyA curriculum.
·       The Word in Fragrance.
·       The ?maNi-pravALam? legacy.

The third part highlights Sudarsanar?s specific works,
such as the variorum one-volume edition of the entire
classical commentaries on tiru-p-pAvai, and the
5-volume (3676 pages) commentary-exposition of Sri
Ramanuja?s bhAshyam on Srimad Bhagavad Gita.

Sudarsanar?s aforementioned scholarly works apart, he
is well-known for his polemical works systematically
exposing the mischief of an array of influential
misrepresenters and falsifiers authoring spurious and
pseudo-scriptural works. ?Religion of the Tamils of
Sangham Age?, from which Sri NSP has given interesting
illustrations, is what conclusively establishes that
Lord Sriman Narayana is God Supreme as adored in the
religion of the ancient Tamils. ?Religion of Kamban?
is a major study, paraphrasing in captivating Tamil
prose certain crucial verses of the world-renowned
classic, as demonstrating that Kamban as much owed to
the ancient Tamil religion as to the scriptures of the
Azhvar mystics.

My booklet concludes with the account of the vigilant
re-affirmation made by Sudarsanar svami that
Srivaishnavam is a monotheistic religion.

?Sudarsanar? Sri S. Krishnaswami Aiyyangar remains the
basic aesthete who receives and cherishes the
other-worldly fragrance (?surabhi nO mukhA/karat?) of
the sacred Word, as emanating from our precious
inheritance of the vyAkhyA literature, encompassing
the venerated ?divya-prabandham?/aruLi-c-cheyal of the
Blessed Azhvar saints.

aDiyEn rAmAnuja-dAsan,
tirumanjanam Sundara Rajan.

  






                
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