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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