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SrI:
 
Dear BhakthAs of GodhA Devi :
 
I am so happy to brief  you that the ANDAL Muthtangi SamarpaNa
Kaimkaryam was successfully completed Yesterday (Aug 8)
at SrivilliputthUr thanks to the participation by few of you .
 
As you can imagine , this is the PradhAna festival at
SrivilliputthUr and this small village had thousands of
devotees waiting to have a glimpse of ThAyAr and PerumAl
climbing the six story ThEr to the accompaniment of
Nathasvaram , Thavil , Dheepam , Veda GhOsham and
Dhivya Prabhandham . ThEr was drawn around the Maada
Veedhis duirng  the final day of Uthsavam .
 
My sister , VidvAmsini Padma VeerarAghavan  made her
second trip from Chennai to Srivilliputthur to present
the new Mutthangi to ANDAL on behalf of all  of us.
Earlier on Aug 3 , my sister and her crew had the bhAgyam of
arangERRam of the two hour long new dance drama based on
NaacchiyAr Thirumozhi before ANDAL and recieved Her blessings .
 
During this trip , the Bhattars adorned ANDAL with the Noothana
Mutthu KoNDai and the Mutthangi , while She was seated on the ThEr
with Her lord , RangamannAr . My sister said that the Sevai of ANDAL
was indescribably beautiful . You might recall that we had time to
complete ANDAL's Mutthangi only due to time pressures . The angis
for RangamannAr and PeriyAzhwAr will be ready only in 2 months
time and will be presented then ( ~ October 10 ).
 
The most interesting thing happened now according to my sister .
To give you the significance of the incredible sankalpam of
RangamannAr on this day of the avathAram of ANDAL, one
has to describe the structure of the constructed Mutthangi :
 
The Mutthangi is in two parts . One Part  is an Upper garment like
a body shirt built on form-fitting copper plates and with velvet
over it with pearls stitched together in novel patterns .  The second
part is like a form-fitting pant serving as  an angi for the body from waist down to
the ankles . The Mutthangi looks therefore like a Pant Suit in the western
parlance .
 
When the Mutthangi was presented , the intent was for ANDAL
to adorn it ( the Upper as well as the lower garments as a unit).
Something inspirational and spontaneous happened right there.
ArchakAs adorned ANDAL first with the Mutthangi Pants over
the Red Saree She was wearing and then said that the Lord can not
be left out of this special occasion and decided to adorn His broad chest
of the Lord with the upper garment  of Soodikkoduttha NaacchiyAr .
The dhivya dampathis shared the Mutthangi during this occasion .
This made me think of the famous slOkam of GodhA Sthuthi ,
where Swamy Desikan visiualizes the travel of PeriyAzhwAr
from His nandha vanam carrying on His head the flower garlands
worn by ANDAL for the benefit of Her Lord (Vadapathra Saayee
That time) . Those garlands resting on a bamboo container were covered by
the upper garment of ANDAL during their travel to the Lord's sannidhi.
Sri Vadapathra Saayee ,  a great rasikan had the great joy of not only wearing
the garlands worn earlier by ANDAL as per His request  but also enjoyed
the divine fragrance (Dhivya ParimaLam ) of ANDAL's upper garments .
 
On this August day , it was His sankalpam that must have goaded the archakAs
to adorn Him with the Upper Part of His divine consort's Mutthangi . He could not
wait until His angi would be ready in the near future . ANDAL must have been
chuckling over Her Lord's limitless love for Her .
 
Here is the relevant GodhA Sthuthi SlOkams of Swamy Desikan :
 
ChooDApadhEna parigruhya TavOtthareeyam
   maalaAmapi ThvadhaLakair-adhivAsya dhatthAm
prAyENa RangapathirEsha Bhibarthi GodhE
   SoubhAgya sampadhabhishEka mahAdhikAram ---18th SlOkam 
 
(Meaning) : Oh  GodhE ! How can we describe the glories of Your 
Upper garment ! How can be venture to describe the glorious garland
that You adorned and sent to Your Lord for Him to enjoy by adorning it ?
Your Lord takes with great affection Your upper garments that covered 
the flower garlands and adorns it on His crown as a Parivattam . He accepts
with joy the garlands used earlier by You and brought to His side by Your
dear Father and He wears that also on His head .Through these acts  , He 
becomes filled with auspiciousness and blesses His devotees in turn with 
that auspiciousness. This pride of sambhandham with your flower garlands
and Your upper garments that covered them becomes His great Iswaryam .
 
This is what seemed to have happened yesterday at SrivilliputthUr .
What Swamy Desikan visualized and recorded in the form of the above
slOkam some 700 years ago was reenacted it seems!
 
Thank you all , who particpated in the Muhtthangi SamarpaNam for ANDAL .
adiyEn expects some photos of the Mutthangi , KoNDai and the Uthsavam
soon . adiyEn will be pleased to share them with you all .
 
Sri ANDAL SamEtha Sri RangamannAr ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam ,
Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 


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