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Srimathe Rangaramanuja Mahadesikaya Namaha:

Here is a report sent by a sishya who attended Srimath Andavan's
thirunakshatram in Madras yesterday. The official website
www.andavan.org/monthly.htm has some additional details.
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Srimathe Rangaramanuja Mahadesikaya Namaha:
The celebrations of His Holiness Srirangam Srimath Andavan Sri
Rangaramanuja Mahadesikan's Thirunakshatram took place in a very grand
manner in Srimath Andavan Ashramam in Azhwarpet, Chennai. We have no
words to express the the amount of joy we all experienced when we were
witnessing the function. Right from early in the morning huge number of
Srivaishnavas started swelling the auditorium. Sri Parakala Matham
Jeeyar His Holiness Srimadh Abhinava Vageesha Brahmatantra Parakala Maha
Desikan also graced the occasion coming specially from Mysore to
participate in Srimath Andavan's Thirunakshatram. It was a wonderful
sight to see the two yatheeswaras, Sri Parakala Jeeyar Swami and
Srimushnam Andavan performing morning Ijyaradhanam simultasneously to
their respective salagramams. Parakala swamy added vigrahams also and
Srimushnam andavan performed for Padukas of poorvacharyas.

The entire sea of the bhagavatha ghosti was seen wearing traditional
clothes with purushas with panchakachams and Dvadasa Pundrams and
sthrees in 9 yards sarees. With more and more sishyas joining in the
hall there was no place even to stand. Many sishyas were directed
towards mini hall and then the corridors and dining hall and even to the
pathways on the street till end of the road leading to the Ashramam.
Thousands of people joined in the recitation of the sarrumurai. It was
a very hard task for the volunteers to make way in the crowd for both
acharyas to move and distribute Perumal theertham. It took more than one
and half hours for perumal theertham viniyogam alone. When prasadam was
distributed to entire ghosti, there was no place to move anywhere.

As per adiyen's rough estimates, there would have been about 3000+
sishyas for the theertha ghosti. After peria sarrumurai, His Holiness
was sitting on the dias. All sishyas wanted to offer pranams and get
manthrakshadai. Since it would take too much time for all to offer
pranams and for receiving matrakshadhai, His Holiness decided to step
down from the platform and walk in the middle of the hall and the
people squeesed themselves to make way for isle without touching on His
Holiness. His Holiness blessed the sishyas with manthralshadai all
around in the crowd on both sides when walking through the isle. Then
Malai Mariyadhai was offered from divyadesams and awards were offered to
dignitaries.

Srimath Andavan's Chatusloki Vyakyanam was published as a book by the
Ashramam. The audio cassettes of His Holiness's rendition of Chathusloki
and Daya Sathakam were also realeased which was followed by speeches by
various vidwans and scholars. His Holiness honoured Sri U.Ve. Vaduvoor
Srinivasa Desikachariar Swamy and Sri U.Ve. Payyampadi
Srivathsangachariar Swamy who were recent recipients of Presidents award
for Sanskrit mastery. Sri U.Ve Ramadesikachariar and Sri Madurai
Krishnan(a carnatic musician) was also honoured by the Ashramam.

Finally the eagerly awaited anugraha bhashanams by both Acharyas took
place. Many of the sishyas participated in the thadeeyaradhanai which
concluded at 3.00 PM.

dasan,
an andavan thiruvadi.


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