Dear Bhagavatas, I wish to clear some points regarding Madurantakam temple. While returning from lanka Ramas pushpakavimanam got struked with a mountain near by while crossing this placecalled vakularanyam. magizhamarakkadu.Then Rama remem bered the word given to sage Vibandaka that he will visit him with Sita while returning back. So he got down and gave darsan to the sage who is also present even now in moolasthanam. Actually Sita is holding the hands of Rama and not as said before.Ramanuja got pancha samskara under the Sthala vrukha vakulam H.H. 42 nd pontif of Ahobila mutt started a sanskrit college here which celebrated golden jubili recently dasan kaasyapah LakshmiNarasimhan SrinivasaRaghavan <lsriniva@xxxx> wrote:Dear Sri. Sadagopan Iyengar Your account of the Englishman's Prappathi was enthralling to read. Adiyen has a small story to add to this prapatti. 1. Lakes (Eri) in villages are used for irrigation, bathing, drinking, etc. etc in olden days. Even now, Madurantakam Eri is surrounded by 25 villages and all these villages depend on this eri very much. In short any lake protects its villages. Similarly Swami Ramanuja protects everyone. So, Swami Ramanuja is an "Eri" too. As Swami Ramanujacharya got his panchasamaskaram under a tree (which is behind Andal Sannidhi in the temple) from Sri PeriyaNambigal in this temple, this Rama saved our Ramanuja by having his panchasamaskaram done at Madurantakam. Hence, this Raman is none other than "Eriyagiya Ramanujanai Katha Raman". Adiyen remembers this story from one who was doing kaimkaryam in Sri Ramanujar Sannidhi at Madurantakam. If there any mistakes in the story, please accept my apologies. 2. Only in this kshetram, Swami Ramanuja will be wearing "Silver White Veshti" as at the time of having panchasamaskaram , our acharyan was still a gruhasthan. Beside him is present his acharyan, Sri Periya Nambigal. Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan Lakshminarasimhan S. ---------------------------------------------------------- Srimathe Lakshminrusimha divya pAduka sevika srivan satakopa Sri Narayana Yathindra MahadesikAya Namaha ----------------------------------------------------------
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