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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