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In reading Sri Andal's vaibhavam one comes across 
the following. When she became enamored with the 
Lord and was suffering because she was unable to 
reach Him, she identified herself completely with 
the yadava girls who also suffered in a similar 
fashion from their separation with Sri Krishna. 
Thiruppavai is thus her outpouring while thinking 
like a idaippeN (yadava girl).

Our acharyas have expressed thier amazement that 
even though Andal grew up in a Srivaishnava family 
as Periyazhvar's daughter, she does not once speak 
of Brahmin behaviour such as performing rituals 
and hOmams and instead talks of cows, buffaloes, 
hens, etc.; and that she even knew about things 
such as "erumai siRuveedu mEyvAn paranthanakAN". 
This goes to show that she had fully assumed the 
qualities of the yadava girls and shed her 
brahmin identity. This might explain why she did 
not talk about things such as Ekadasi which is of 
importance in a brahmin household but not else-
where (please correct me if adiyEn is wrong in 
this statement).

Also, she was at an age when she was likely to 
talk about nOnpu's (such as pAvai nOnpu, kAman 
nOnpu) and games such as koodalazhaiththal, rather 
than about rituals. This is seen in Thiruppavai 
as well as in Nacciyar Thirumozhi.

To answer the second question, one has to again 
read Andal's vaibhavam. She was enamored with 
Him completely and in particular Vadabathrasayi in 
Srivilliputhoor and considered herself His bride.
Hence she would wear garlands meant for Him first.
This was also the time when she identified herself 
with the yadava girls (upon the advise of the 
elders). 

In Thiruppavai she was writing mainly about the
vibhavataram of Sri Krishna (and also about other
vibhavatarams such as Sri Rama and Sri Vamana). 
But, she does not write about any archavatarams. 
In Nacciyar Thirumozhi, she does mention Thirumal-
iruncolai Azhagar and Sri Ranganathar. But she 
does not indicate that she thought herself as the 
bride of Sri Ranganathar. In her vaibhavam it 
is said that once she made it clear to Periyazhar 
that she would marry none but Him ("mAnidvarak-
kenRu pEccuppadil vAzhakillEn"), he described to 
her the kalyANa guNams and perumai of the 108 
divyadEsap perumAL's and that is when she selected 
Sri Ranganathar as her groom. Thus, she did not 
write about any archavatarams in Thiruppavai 
including Sri Ranganathar.

If there are any errors in the statements above, 
adiyEn begs the forgiveness of everyone.

madhurakavi dAsan
TCA Venkatesan





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