Narayana Narayana
Sriman Narayanan was pleased with Sage Agastya's
unwavering and unfaltering devotion. He said,
"Oh Agastya, I am pleased with your devotion. I am
very happy with your penance. I understand
your desire. Just as the yadu vamsham, cursed by
Yayathi, was sanctified by my birth, just as
the kaveri became more sacred than the holy ganga by
my divine grace, so shall your mother tongue
-the Dravida bhasha (tamil)- be considered equal to
the Daiva bhasha (samskritam). Henceforth,
the southern part of India (Dravida desham) shall be
sanctified by my presence . I shall
incarnate as the son of a king named "Kari", in a
place called as "Kuruka nagari", situated on
the banks of the holy Tamraparni river. I shall be
called as "Shatakopan". In that incarnation,
I shall translate all the Vedas and shastras to your
language-Dravida Bhasha, in thousand verses.
At the same time, all the Nityasuris namely Ananta,
Garuda and Viswaksena, all my weapons namely
Panchjanya, Sudarshana, Koumodaki, Nandaka and
Sharnga, and all my Divya parivaram comprising of
Lakshmi, Srivatsa,Kousthubha, Vanamala, etc. shall
incarnate at the end of Dwapara yugam and at
the beginning of Kali yugam in different places. Some
of them take birth in high class families
like Brahmana and Kshatriya. Some shall take birth in
lower classes. Some of them shall come to
this Earth as "Ayonija"s (not born to humans).
Although they will be born as ordinary humans,
they shall never give up their Divya Jnaanam in their
incarnation. With a mind to uplift the poor
souls in this world and help them cross the ocean of
samsara, they shall recompose all the
shastras and Vedas in your mother tongue-Tamil. The
Divya Prabandham, so composed by me and my
Divya Parivaram, shall amount to 4000 verses. Of
these, the thousand verses that I compose, as
"Shatakopan", will be considered as
"Lokottharam"(supreme-beyond this world). All my
devotees,
called as "Sri Vaishnavas", shall master these 4000
verses. Just as Veda Vyasa compiled the Vedas
and divied them, so too shall I compile all the 4000
verses of the Divya Prabandham, when I
incarnate as "Shatakopan". This will be called as
"Dravida Vedam". This Dravida Vedam shall be
considered as equivalent to samskrita Vedas. Since my
devotees master both the Vedas, they will
be entitled to be called as "Ubhaya Vedanta
Pravarthaka"s."
(to be continued...)
Ramanuja Dasan
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