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Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Dear All,
This question triggered my to get clarification on one more less 
popular but authentic historical event. I do not know how is this is 
correct, but I had been thinking that it is authentic. Learned 
scholars kindly clarify.

I heard that though Swami Desikan was more on to the ShriVaishnavam 
on the Sanskrit Literary front in his initial stages, it seems, swami 
Periyavacchan Pillai gave him a orientation towards the greatness of 
Azhwars' prabandhams. He did that by taking up Amalanathipiran 
pasurams it seems. It goes as follows:
The ten prabandhams of Amalanathipiran starts with the following 
words:
Amalan
Uvandha
Mandhi
CHAduram 
PAram
THUunda
KAI
Pari
Aalam
Kondal

If you see the first three pasurams, the first letters give you A U M 
which is the pranavam, fourth is CHA which means and in sanskrit. The 
next three give PA THU KAI - PATHUKAI which means the thiruvadi of 
the supreme lord Shriman Narayanan. A U M CHA PADHUKAI and I couldn't 
find out what came out of the last three. Does anyone have 
information on this? Kindly let me know. It seems, after aacchan 
pillai exposed the greatness of the azhwars prabandhams using this as 
the beginning lesson, swami Desikan got inclined more towards the 
Dravida Vedham and also composed a lot of tamizh literary works.

I hope no one misinterprets this mail as the one that talks inferior 
about swami desikan or anything like that. I have no intent to 
attempt to or prove that any of our acharyas as inferior to anyone 
else. To me everyone is great and I see no discrimination amongst 
them and I request the readers of this mail to interpret this mail 
the same way.

Yatheendra Pravanam Vandhe RAMYA Jamataram Munim

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan,
Lakshmi Narasimhan

--- In ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "amshuman_k" <amshuman_k@xxxx> wrote:
> Shrimate Ramanujaaya namaha.
> 
> Is there a composition called Lokacharya stuti written by Shri 
> Vedanta Desika? Where can I find it, if it exists?
> 
> Regards,
> KK




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