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THIRUMANTHIRAM
Our commenataries are full of
thatvam-s directly correlating to the aruLich cheyal.
The rahasyArtham-s namely,
Thirumanthram, DvyAm, Charama slOkam,artha panchakam- are all embedded into
the AzvAr-s divine outpourings. These are wonderfully unravelled, like cracking
out the atoms and bringing out immense power by our beloved vyAkyAna
karthAs.
Thirumanthiram has been spelt out
by AzvAr-s in subtle manner and sometimes openly.
For examples the akAram, ukAram and
makAram have been used as first syllables in the first pAsurams of TiruvAimozhi
and AmalanAdhippirAn respectively.
Tirumangai AzvAr, at the
outset, realises the potence of The Tirumanthram and promptly explains the
efficacy.
After talking about Tirumanthram,
for five pAsuram-s he gives the piece
'empirAn endhai
ennudaicch sUTram enakkarasu-ennudaiya vANAL...'
Sri Periya vAchAn PiLLai analyses
this as if fitting the jigsaw puzzle and gives us to us in a golden
salver.
AzvAr-s have the practice of doling
out Tirumanthiram and following that with the meaning of this great manthiram,
appropirately or sometiemes the meaning is given before.
Accordingly, Kaliyan also does this
and we know that from the VyAkyAna Chakravarthi-s great
works.
empirAn
endhai
ààààààààà
ààààà
The sixth pAsuram of periya
thiru-mozhi:
"empirAn
endhai enakku arasu ennudai vAnAL,
ambinAl arakkar
verukkoLa nerukki avar vuyir segutha em
aNNal, vambulAm sOlai
mA-madhiL thanjai mAmaNik
kOilEa vaNaNgi,
nambikAL vuyya nAn kaNdu koNdEan
nArAyaNA ennum
nAmam"
swAmi periya vAchAn
piLLai:
Two important points are
highlighted regarding this pAsuram
i. idhu
thanakku (thirumandhrathukku) artham en enna aruLich
seigiRAr.
ààà àààààà
(àààààààààààààààà àààààààà ààà àààà ààààààà àààààààà.
thirumangai mannan commences
thiru-mozhi -bang with thiru-mandhiram. Having commenced so, he explains the
meaning of the thiru-mandhiram in this pAsuram.
What is the need for mentioning the
meaning of thiru-mandhiram, when even the recital of text will yield the desired
results?
...arthAnusanthAnathAlEa pEARu enRu thamakku pakshamAgaiyAlEa
arthathaich sollugiRAr.
..ààààààààààààààààà
àààà ààààà àààààà àààààà ààààààà àààààààà àààààààààààà.
Comprehending the meaning will
yield the desired effect is the school of thought of sri kaliyan. Hence, he
blesses us with the meaning of thiru-mandhiram in this
pAsuram.
ii. Is there a precedence for this?
of course, sri nam-AzhwAr, if he mentions thiru-mandhiram will bless the meaning
after that or before that.
nam-AzhwArum
thiru-mandhiram OridathilEa prashtuthamAnAl-munEyAdhal, pinnEayAdhal arthathai
sollip pOruvar.
àààà ààààààààà
ààààààààààààà ààààààààààà àààà
ààààààààààà-ààààààààààà ààààààààààà àààààààà àààààààà
ààààààà.
Did not svAmi Nam
AzvAr bring this out in 'OrAyiramA'
-àààààààà-àààààààààààà-9-3.
and excellently pointed out in
IDu?
(to be
continued)
vanamamalai
padmanabhan Oppiliappan Koil Varadachari Sadagopan http://www.sadagopan.org
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