dEAR sRI ta varadhan swAmi,
Yes, the avathArigai is the gem on our asset base. The greatness of our
vyAkyAnAs lie in the avathArikai-s. It brings sharply the meanings of the
'thriu-voi-mozhi' in a nutshell, highlights the subject matter, creates
coherence-bridges between the earlier thiru-voi-mozhi and the present one,
brings forth into our vision AzhwAr's feelings.
The avathArikai also in some places presents different interpretations.
But what about sriyappadhippadi?
regards
vanamamalai padmanabhan
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From: tavaradhan
To: ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 8:28 AM
Subject: [ramanuja] thiruvaymozhi - a small project
srImathE saTakOpAya namah
srImathE rAmAnujAya namah
srImathE anantArya mahAguravE namah
srImathE vara vara munayE namah
dear bhagavathas,
Today being the day in which vEda adhyayanam is normally started for
the year, adiyEn is embarking an a small project. For us, the tamizh
vEdam is in many ways more dear than the samskrit vEdam. In the
tamizh vEdam, thiruvAymozhi occupies a dear portion. There have been
several commentaries on thiruvAymozhi, and several anubhavams by our
AchAryAs on this divine work. Words cannot begin to describe the
greatness, beauty, sweetness and utility of thiruvaaymozhi to us.
For people like me, the meanings of thiruvAymozhi are very hard to
understand and requires me to listen the upanyAsam from an AchArya
multiple times. The vyAkhyAnams are hard to read, and are open to
misinterpretation without the help of an AchArya. However, one great
AchArya - perhaps the greatest SriVaishNava AchArya of the 20th
century - srI prativAdi bayankaram aNNangarAchariAr svAmi has done
all of us a great upakAram by writing and publishing a set of
commentaries known as "divyArtha deepikai" on all the naalaayira
divya prabhandham paasurams. This divyaartha deepikai is so sweet &
simple to understand that it brings tears to ones eyes. It is the
most perfect condensation of what all of our AchAryAs have taught
us, and is presented in a simple, easy to understand manner in
simple tamizh.
Each paasuram in the naalaayira divya prabhandham is linked to the
previous and next paasurams. So is each set of 10/11 pasurams
(decades). In thiruvaaymozhi, every commentary has what is usually
termed as "pravESa" (introdutory material/preface/entering material)
to each decade. This is a very beautiful section where the
connection between the previous and the current decade is given, and
in most cases a small summary of what is said in the current decade
is provided. By understanding the pravESas to all the decades, one
can get a good idea of what thiruvAymozhi says, and is something
that is enjoyable to do.
adiyEn's small project is to translate the simple versions of the
pravESas of all the 100 decads in thriuvAymozhi from the divyaartha
deepikai. adiyEn will attempt to do the translation only for the
very simple version of the divyArtha deepikai. This version is found
in a book titled "aNNa svaamiyin amudha mozhi aayiram", and is the
501st to the 600th amudha mozhi in the book.
I request all bhaagavathaas to bear with, point out and correct any
errors, and forgive me for the errors that will come in the
translation. All errors are mine and mine only, and if there is any
good in these postings, all the credit goes to adiyEn's AchArya -
srI thirumalai anandAnpiLLai krishNamAchAriAr svAmi, and other
AchAryAs that adiyEn has had a bhAgyam to learn from/listen to
upanyAsams from in some form or the other, some of whom are -
current day srI rAmAnuja, srI srI srI tridaNdi srIman nArAyaNa
chinna jeeyar svAmi; srI prativaadi bhayankaram aNNangarAchAriAr
svAmi, srI embAr rangAchari svAmi, srI E.S.Bhoovarahaachariaar svAmi
and srI vELukkudi krishNan svAmi.
AzhvAr emperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam,
adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan,
thirumalai anandAnpiLLai srinivasa varadhan
azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam
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