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Dear Esteemed Members,

I do not want to get too much into matters of history,
but I certainly do find it conceivable that the following
took place. After the ransacking of Periya Perumal's tirukkOyil
Malik Kafur and his hordes, the great temple was without
worship for a period of thirty to forty years. During this
time many acharyas and other bhagavatas attained parama-padam,
and we know anecdotally that many of the traditional practices
of the great temple were forgotten and had to be remembered
with great difficulty. It is also well established that
Swami Desika was one of the few people alive during the
reestablishment of the great temple who was also old and
scholarly enough to remember the practices from before
the invasion. There are two slokas by Swami Desika inscribed 
on the temple prAkAra which document his presence at the
resuming of worship there.

At this time, there may have been a few people who,
unaware of the ancient practices of Divya Prabandha
pArAyaNa and adhyayanotsava objected to the reestablishment 
of these things because of the use of loka-bhAshA and
because the authors were not brahmins. The story of Swami 
Desika's defense of Alvar paasuram recital may find 
its origin here. Swami Desika, no doubt a paramount 
authority on both Vedantas and a remarkable debater,
would have had the skill to convince these objectors
that this practice was indeed in consonance with the
shastras.

Just my opinion,
With regards,
aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,
Mani






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