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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha

Sri VanAchala mahA munayE Namaha



SrisailEsa dayA pAthram deebhakthyAdhi gunArnavam

Yateendra pravanam vandhE ramya jAmataram munim



RamyajAmatru yOgeendra pAdha rEkhA mayam sadhA

thathAyaththAthma sadhdhAthim rAmAnuja munim bhajE



HH Sri Vanamamalai Chinna saTakOpa ramanuja Jeeyer 1883-1896 (Twenty-Third 
pattam)



Swamy's Kainkaryams (Contd)



While swamy was in thirunarayanapuram, in two or three days it happened to be 
thiruvadippooram. Swamy enjoyed the darshan of chellapillai along with ubhaya 
nAchiyar, Andal and udaiyavar. Chellapillai along with his consorts, andal and 
udaiyavar visited the mutt and underwent the divine thirumanjanam followed by 
divya prabhanda ghosti and special thaligai (offerings) and ended with the 
sattrumarai. After sattrumarai the divine couples honoured swamy and then 
proceeded with their veedhi purappadu and returned back to the temple. Then 
with the permission of emperuman swamy proceeded towards north. The king 
ordered special honour to swamy and hence the king's men till the 
border-bellAri accompanied swamy. 



Then swamy crossed mAlyavAn area, tungabadra and krishnavEni and reached 
'Kingdom of vanaparuththi' and proceeded to Sri Rangarajapuram. There swamy had 
the divine darshan of Sri Rangarajar, Andal, PeriAzhvar and pattarbiran swamy. 
At that time the king of that place requested swamy to undergo his chAturmAsa 
viratham in his kingdom itself. Swamy accepted and took the sankalpam, stayed 
there for two months and completed the vratham. At that time swamy educated the 
interested folks over there with many intricate matters in vishistAdvaita 
philosophy. After completion of the sankalpam, the vanaparuththi king invited 
swamy to his samasthAnam and honoured swamy in a special manner. Swamy showered 
his grace on the king and then proceeded the journey.



On the way, the king of Athmakoor honoured swamy. Accepting the same, swamy 
proceeded to bhAkyapuram. There swamy had the darshan of devaperumal and the 
charama stalam of pattarbiran swamy. In bhAkyapuram, many specially honoured 
swamy and then swamy proceeded towards east. Then swamy's journey proceeded via 
anuman kondA mattavAdA, shObhanAdri in noojvEdu samsthAnam. Honoured by many 
over there swamy visited the kingdom of noojvEdu as per their request. The king 
with great regard welcomed swamy and honoured swamy appropriately. Swamy 
blessed the king and then reached sanivArapettai. The then king over there did 
all the honours to swamy as per the practice of his elders and requested swamy 
to stay there for some days. Swamy stayed there and accepted the properties 
that had been left for the mutt by the king's ancestors that haven't come to 
the possession of the mutt till date. Then swamy started from there crossed 
godAvari and reached meedApuram. The king over there specially welcomed swamy 
honoured swamy and submitted two elephants and wealth to swamy. Swamy accepted 
the same, blessed the king and via nellore reached thiruvallikeni. Swamy did 
mangalasasanams to Parthasarathi emperuman. Swamy then did mangalasasanams to 
edavendhai endhaipiran and kadalmalli stalasayanatuRaivar. 



Then as per the request of many devotees swamy visited pondicherry. Swamy 
stayed there for some days and established a strong, big mutt over there. From 
there swamy visited srimushnam, nAdamuni mannAr sannadhi, nAthan sannadhi and 
rAjamannAr sannadhi and with great thirst reached Srirangam. After having the 
divine darshan of periya perumal swamy proceeded to sirivaramangala nagar. 
Swamy was welcomed by deivanAyakan with prasadam and other respective honours. 
Swamy with great pleasure accepted the same and along with all the pattu 
peedhAmbharam and other offerings submitted by various devotees all through his 
journey proceeded to deivanayakan sannadhi to do mangalAsAsanams.



On seeing the divya dampathis after a long time swamy stood in front of perumal 
and piratti with tears rolling down his cheeks. Swamy enjoyed the divine 
darshan like a highly thirsty person quenching his thirst. Emperuman pleased to 
see swamy, blessed swamy with his theertham, Srisadagopan, and other prasadams. 
Swamy accepting them with great pleasure returned back to the mutt. In the mutt 
swamy did mangalasAsanams to aranganagarappan and then prostrated Azhagiya 
varadan (kalashepa mandapam) and seated himself on the peedam. Swamy showered 
his grace on all the devotees assembled in the mandapam.



Swamy then submitted one of the elephants given to him during the yathra to 
chOranAthan, emperuman in Sri vaikundam. With the wealth obtained during the 
journey swamy purchased to villages, malaiyadiputtur and koyilammAlpuram for 
lease. After some days, swamy decided to make a beautiful golden ratham for 
Sirivaramangai and deivanAyakan. The chariot was made of properly selected teak 
wood with beautiful woodcarvings. Further beautiful carved brass plates were 
used for decoration in appropriate places. After completion of this 
arrangements were made to coat the chariot with gold. As large amount of gold 
was required for this purpose swamy arranged for capable persons to help out in 
this kainkaryam. In between this swamy offered huge amount of wealth for the 
vimana pradhistai of the temple. But before the completion of the chariot 
kainkaryam swamy fell sick.



In this way, swamy remained with great endowments fighting over all the 
prathivAdhis (people of other philosophies) and establishing the ramanuja 
siddhAntham strongly filled with vairakhyam, jnanam surprising everyone and 
making all to admire if swamy was none other than periya jeeyer himself or was 
he an incarnation of periya vanamamalai jeeyer. Swamy stayed in the peedam for 
13 successful years with a day-to-day increase in the number of shisyas, along 
with continued and extended kainkaryams to the divya dampathis of vanamamalai 
and aranganagarappan along with increase in the wealth and property to the mutt.



Further swamy realized his time to ascend to the nithya kainkaryam of emperuman 
was approaching and hence started to think about the next successor to the mutt 
and was reminded about the one who was from the family of vanamamalai vidhvans, 
one who had surrendered to the divine feet of madurakavi swamy and who has also 
been his close disciple well-versed in ubhaya vedAntha and capable of taking 
care of the mutt a special Srivaishnava. Swamy called him and named him 
pattarbiran ramanuja jeeyer and made him the next peedAdhipathi. Then Sri 
SadakOpa ramanuja Jeeyer swamy meditating on his acharya's divine feet attained 
paramapadam.



CharamAnusandhAnam



ApthE durmukhinAmakE gujadhinE mAsE vrukshE poornimAsajyAyAm cha dithow divA 
subhakarE thArEhyadhoorAdhakE I traiyendhadvaya pAraka: subhagunAmbhOdhi 
sidheeslAgitha: Sri vAnAdri sadAri nAmayadhirAt svAryAngri padmam yayow II



Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharNam



Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam



Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee,

Sumithra Varadarajan





























































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