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Dear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer,

Before taking up any other point eulogizing / describing my colourful lord 
krishNa, the meaning for the charaNam of the OVS krithi 'pachchai iLam' krithi 
- which I postponed.

charaNam:
maamaayai thaaNdi ninRa guNakkadalE thayir 
maththaNaiyum kaiyiRaNaindha eyiRRu ezhilE
aamaarum arindhaarum aRRa nilaiyE 
aththai naan unakku enraal piththa nilaiyE [pachchai]

meaning:  hey krishNa, you are
        *       the ocean of noble characters and these characters transcending 
the great maaya 
        *       the one who has the mark in the stomach from the rope embracing 
the curd churning rod, 
        *       one who has the state of beyond vEdhaas and knowledge. 
When I claim I am your aunt then it is my madness.

[the word eyiRu means tooth or gum above the tooth. This also means a horn. But 
when the rope of churning rod is meant, it leads to the stomach only - my 
krishNa as dhaama udharan. May be there is a mistake in print in the book from 
which I have taken the krithi. It is same case in V.Chandhra sekaran's web site 
on OVS. So please excuse me]
    
(madhyamakalam)
aRindhu seidha oru paapam ilEn enakku adhuthaan laksham kOti 
aayinum unadhu iru padhamalar adiyinai anavarathamum thudhi paadi 
aanandamaanadhu kOti kOti aagaiyinaal unaith-thEdith thEdi 
alaivadhum thirivadhum alaRuvadhum aRa aruLa vENum enai naadi naadi [pachchai]

meaning: dear krishNa, I do not have any sin accumulated out of actions with my 
full knowledge, sin from actions without my knowledge may be lakhs and crores. 
But because of singing the praise of your lotus feet, I have crores of 
pleasures and happiness. Please shower your grace on me by reaching me, and 
removing the search for you, for I scream, screech and wander in search of you 
repeatedly. [pachchai]. 

[since this charanam does not add any points to my topic on colour, I just 
postponed the giving of meaning.]  

Now going back to 'munnai vaNNam' - This paasuram dealt with colours in 4 
different yugams. Is this word vaNNam deals only with colours or the roopam or 
some thing more - see the verse from kamban on the 'vaNNam'.
 
ivvaNNam nigazhndha vaNNam ini indha ulagukku ellaam
uyvaNNam anRi maRRu Or thuyar vaNNam uRuvadhu uNdO?
mai vaNNaththu arakki pOril mazhai vaNNaththu aNNalE un 
kai vaNNam angu kaNdEn kaal vaNNam ingu kaNdEn 

24 - baala kaaNdam aghaligai padalam kamba raamaayaNam

meaning: sage visvaamithra says "oh raamaa, the rain coloured lord, I saw your 
hand's colour [valour] there - in the killing of that black coloured raakshasi 
thaatakai thus  saving my yagnam. Here in this place of sage gouthama, I see 
your leg's colour [power of the legs converting the dead stone into a beautiful 
women ahalyaa]. This happening also shows that hereafter there is no more 
suffering and liberation for the world through your hands.

[one doubt may arise why sage visvaamithra should praise raama as 'ulaghu 
uyvaNNam anRi maRRu uNdO' on ahalyaa's release? kamban puts these words through 
visvaamithra. For visvaamithra has already said 'aham vEdhmi maahaathmaanam' to 
dhasaratha - I know how raama is greatest, when dhasaratha was reluctant in 
sending raama along with visvaamaithra. 

Also visvaamithra is a 'vaak visaaradha' as addressed by janaka - as said in 
vaalmeeki ramaayaNam - see slOkam - which kamban also uses to glorify 
visvaamithra by multiple usage of this single word vaNNam - so establishes that 
'vaak visaaradha:' name calling  of vaalmeeki] 

Evam uktha sa dharmaathmaa janakEna mahaathmanaa |
prathyuvaacha munir veeram vaakyam vaakya visaaradha: || 1-66-4

mahaathmanaa + janakEna = noble souled [foreseer] by janakan; 
Evam + uktha: = thus said; 
dharmaathmaa = virtue souled [pre-sager]; 
vaakya + visaaradha: = sentence expert [wordsmith]; 
sa: + muni: = that sage [visvaamithra]; 
veeram + vaakyam + prathyuvaacha = to valiant janakan, words, in reply said.

Meaning: When said thus by the foreseer janakan, [who can foresee as to why 
visvaamithra came with raaghavan this far, and thus asked him as to what next 
is to be done,] that sage visvaamithra, for he is pre-sager and wordsmith, [and 
who knows what is to be done next,] said these words in reply to that valiant 
king janakan. [1-66-4]

Now let us see the specialty, that word 'vaNNam' is being used in different 
meaning - the specialty of tamil language - 

        a.      ivvaNNam - indha vazhiyil or indha muRaiyil - in this way - 
here vaNNam means way or pattern
        b.      [nigazhndha] vaNNam - nigazhndha padi - the manner or type in 
which that happening did take place - here vaNNam means type.
        c.      uyvaNNam - uyyumaaRu - the route for liberation - so here 
vaNNam means route - gathi - maargam
        d.      thuyar vaNNam - siRidhaavadhu varuththam - traces of sorrow - 
so here vaNNam means traces - small quantity.
        e.      my vaNNaththu arakki - karuppu niRa arakki - black colour 
raakshasi - here vaNNam means colour.
        f.      mazhai vaNNaththu aNNalE - mega vaNNaththu raamaa - the rain 
coloured raamaa - cloud coloured - dark colour -  here also vaNNam means colour.
        g.      kai vaNNam - kaiyin thiRamai - the power of the hand or valour 
of fighting with bow and arrow using the hand - vaNNam here means sleight - 
power
        h.      kaal vaNNam -kaalinaal seidha kaariyaththin perumai - glory of 
the feet - so vaNNam here means glory.

Dear bhakthaas - this is one of few verses glorifying the specialty of language 
and the kavi chaathuryam of kamban, besides glorifying the lord, and sage 
visvaamithra, using that special word  'vaNNam'. 

Do that leg of raama has the kaariyaththin perumai only or some thing else 
also. Yes the beautiful colour - like a lotus flower - in colour - in that 
green body a lotus colour feet - even to spread that in the mind - the feet 
expands and gives a beautiful scene before inner eyes. See that thru the eyes 
of aazhvaar. Only a small change - instead of kaal here the word used is adi - 
which also means kaal or paadham -

adi vaNNam thaamarai anRu ulagam thaayOn
padi vaNNam paarkkadal neer vaNNam mudi vaNNam
Oraazhi veyyOn oLiyum akhdhanrE
aaraazhi koNdaaRku azhagu.  - 5 - moonRaam thiruvandhaadhi

let that vaNNam - colourful picture be expanding in the mind and stay till we 
have the meaning in next post.

Dhasan

Vasudevan m.g.






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