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Sri
Srimathe Rangaramanuja Mahadesikaya Namaha
Srimathe Srinivasa Ramanuja Mahadesikaya Namaha


Sri Srinivasa Ramanuja Mahadesikan (Srimath Kadanthethi Andavan)
Thirunakshatram: Aavani-Moolam

Thanian
Srimath Srivasa yogi pravarasa kaaruNa paanghasanghaadha BHangaath
VEdhaantha dvandva vidhya madhu rasa laharich chanchari kaayamaaNaha
thEnaachaaryENa ranga prabhu charaNa yugE daththa rakshaa BharaSri:
Srimath Srivasa raamaavaraja muNimaNis santhatham srEyasEsyaath

Srimath KAdandhEthi Andavan's Life history and PrabhAvam - Part -2

Swami?s Manthra Sidhi (..contd)
At Nagapattinam, on a request from the town?s Tashildar Sri Rangaswami
Nayakkar, Sri Varada Vedanthachariar swami displayed his Satavadhana
skills in Vellipalayam Krishna Sannidhi. (Sathavadanam is a skill where
the person performing this skill will tackle 100 questions or acts at
the same time). The people were awed by this display. At the end, he
asked a palanquin to be brought and he got into the palanquin. He asked
it to be lifted only in the back of the palanquin. With his manthra
sidhdhi he went on a procession in the palanquin, with no one lifting
the front side of the palanquin.

At Tirupathi/Tirumalai
After sometime in Nagapattinam, Sri Varada Vedanthariar swami left again
on a yathra. The king of Kalahasti learnt this mahAn?s prathApam from
Chittoor collector office sirasthadhar Sri Krishnaswami Iyer and invited
him to his samasthAnam. The king gave a village called Vallisembedu and
also gave a portion of the income from another village called Jangapalli
to swami as a gift (sanmAnam) and kept him at his samasthAnam with due
respects.

After some time, Sri Varada Vedanthachariar swami left Kalahasthi to
Thirumalai. Here he displayed his satavadhanam skills in front of Sri
Mahanth BhagavAn dAs. At ThiruchAnoor, swami was presented with a house
by a person called Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Pantulu. A son was born to
swami in this house and was named Venkatakrishnan. At Thirumala, he was
gifted an ivory Planquin as a sanmAnam on one occasion. He later donated
this palanquin to Swami Desikan Sannidhi at Thirucherai. He stayed in
Thirupati till he completed 60 years.

At Thirukkudanthai
After celebrating his sasthiabdapoorthy at Tirumala, he desired to come
and live in Thirukkudanthai. He sold his properties at Tirupathi and
came to Thirukkudanthai. He purchased a house in Sri Aravamdhan Sannidhi
Street and stayed there. He did many kainkaryam and ubhayam at the
sannidhi of Sri Aravamudhan. He was very much devoted to Sri Komalavalli
Thaayar and donated a Simha Vahanam for Komalavalli ThAyAr.

Swami?s Compositions
Sri Varada VedanthachAriar?s friend TashildAr Sri RangaswAmi nayakkar
once challenged swami if there is some work in Sanskrit similar to the
tamil work ?Thirukkural?. Swami said he will compose one in a week?s
time and created a grantham called ?Adbudha vAmanam?. He also composed a
grantham called ?Aaraat Prabhandham?. The above granthams have not been
found now, although the copies are belived to be somewhere in
Thiruvananthapuram, Madurai or Thiruvaduthurai. He also composed a
grantham called ?Swapna Sathakam? and sthothras on Thiruvengadamudayan.
When his eyesight had weakened considerably due to his old age, he
composed a grantham called ?Sri Komala Dandakam? on Thirukkudanthai
Komalavalli Thaayar. By reciting this wonderful grantham he regained
his vision completely.

(to be continued with a concluding part detailing the significance of
Sri Varada Vedanthachariar taking up Thureeyasramam as Srimadh
Kadanthethi Andavan in the year 1905)

Srimath Andavan Thiruvadi,
Shyamsundar Sreenivasan


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