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Sri:
Srimathe Ramanujaya nama:
Dear Sriman Lakshmi Narasimhan,

Accept my pranams. In the process of explaining rAdhA as 
a good candidate for nappinnai,you have overlooked the "fundamental" 
aspect of our sampradayam. ANdAL very clearly says "eththanaiyElum 
pirivARRakillAyAl thaththauvam anRu.." and this clearly tells 
that "nappinnai" is nothing but "Sri/Mahalakshmi/periya piratti". 
ALso keep in mind "akala killEn..." of nammAzhvAr. So RAdhA 
is "absolutely" ruled out. None of the 10 AzhvArs have referred to 
rAdhA in their works(please correct me if I'm wrong). So why would 
ANdAl refer to her when her father hasn't and imagined himself as 
yashOdha? As far as I know gOpikas are lovers not wives. And ANdAL 
considers herself as the foremost gOpika(rAdhA is the prime among the 
gOpikAs). SriKrShNa had 16 thousand wives. In SriRamavathara,16 
thousand sages/rshis wanted to unite with PerumAL and SriRama 
couldn't fulfil their wishes as he had taken a vow of "Ekapatni 
vratha" and so he told them that he would do it in the next 
incarnation. SriKrShNa married the 16000 women(apart from other 
queens) who were held captives in narakAsura's palace. Please correct 
me if I'm wrong. 

Now let us see whether ANdAL would fit. ANdAL who clearly 
says in all her pAsurams "bhattarpirAn kOdhai sonna sanga thamizh 
mAlai" or "AyanukkAga thAn kaNda kanAvinai vEyap pugazh villipuththur 
kOn kOdhai sol" and so on and so forth,could have said,if she 
wanted,"kOdhai kongai mEl vaiththuk kidandha malar mArbAy" or "nandha 
gOpAlan marumagaLE kOdhai" or "kOdhai nangAy thiruvE thuyil ezhAy". 
But she doesn't say so. Just because EmperumAnAr fulfilled her 
wish,as an elder brother would do for his younger sister,that does 
not mean "nappinnai" refers to "ANdAL". It is only in this context 
she is called as "perumputhur mAmunikku pinnAnAL vAzhiyE". Moreover 
ANdAL's period is much later to those of some other AzhvArs like 
mudhal AzhvArs,nammAzhvAr etc. And nammAzhvAr has referred to this 
name nappinnai and hence he couldn't have referred it to ANdAL. 
Chances are very remote for this type of analogy.

We are now back to language problems. I have heard(could 
be false) that NAlAyira Divya Prabandham employs 75% of samskrt words 
with tamil syntax. If that be the case then nappinnai could actually 
be a "samskrt" word na+bhinna. Tamil is the most economic langauge
(hence the supreme)with least alphabets. In my opinion,any language 
which is able to cover the most/all with least alphabets is the best 
language. Since in tamil there is only one "pa"(applies to other 
alphabets too) for the samskrt equivalent "pa/pha/ba/bha" the 
word "nappinnai/nabhinna" has to be pronounced according to the 
context. We don't say "padhari nArAyaNan" but "badharinArAyaNan". 
Bhinna means something separable. Nabhinna would then mean 
something "inseparable". Who/what is "inseparable" from the Lord? It 
is "Sri/Mahalaskhmi" only. Not rAdhA or ANdAL. In Tamil,this word 
must have been employed as nappinnai due to the lack of alphabets to 
exactly mimic the samskrt letter "bha". If saTakOpa is written as 
sadagOpan and if people split sadagOpan as "sada+gOpan" it would not 
make any sense. But if we split the samskrt word "saTa" +"kOpa" it 
makes all the sense.

Above all,I'm pretty sure that Sri ParAshara Bhattar,who 
even addressed his wife as mother,would not have composed that 
thaniyan "nILAthunga sthanagiri...gOdhA thasyai nama idhamidham bhUya 
EvAsthu bhUya:"[another confirmation for you that gOdhA is not nILA] 
with the thought that "nILA" refers to someone other than Sri. I 
strongly feel that in this thaniyan "Sri" is "degenerated" to "nILA".
SriKrShNa "conquering seven bulls" is famous only in south. The 
possibility is that "thAyAr/Sri" could have incarnated as "nappinnai" 
and could have married the Lord and since He is from "Ayarkulam" she 
would only be classified as "AyarpAvai/nandhagOpAlan marumagaLE". Sri 
bhUvaracaraya swami says rukmiNi is "sri" amsam. This is what 
confuses me. I remember my mother(my mother had not done any research 
in SV and whatever she had learnt/heard from her elders,without 
questioning,was imparted to us who have questioning mind)telling me 
that nappinnai refers only to "sri/thAyAr" and she named me so 
because I was born the day before AdipUram. AzhvArs are very smart 
and genius and they must have given clues. I request learned 
bhAgavathAs to throw more light on this to have clarification. 
Please forgive if I,with the questioning mind, had said anything 
wrong. 

AzhvAr EmperumAnAr JIyar thiruvadigaLE sharaNam
NC Nappinnai 





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