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Chiranjeevi Mani Varadarajan,
As you are aware, Sri Bhattar's SriranGa-rAja-stavam is recited on eight days of the tiru-vAi-mozhi-t-tiru-nAL (irA-p-pattu, the latter half of the 20-day tiru-adhyayana-utsavam of the kArtikA/dhanur month). This is popularly known as the vaikuNTha-EkAdasee utsavam.
As you know, the originally ten-day adhyayana utsavam was dedicated to the exclusive recital of the GeervANi vEdam. It was tiru-manGai AzhvAr who supplemented this with the recitation of tiru-vAi-mozhi and, bless his grand initiative in the days (circa 9th cent.AD) of difficult access and transport, he made it an annual feature to
carry (the onnRAna / Original) nammAzhvAr from AzhvAr-tiru-naGari on the banks of tAmra-parNee, all the way to Srirangam for the sacred ambience of recitation. AzhvAr and the retinue (parijanam) were encamped in the tiru-k-kuRaL-appan (SrivAmana) shrine at the southern end of Srirangam.
[In later times, SrirAmAnuja discontinued this practice as hazardous, and consecrated the AzhvAr shrine, next to the Grand GaruDa, in the Great Temple itself.] SrinAtha-munikaL, in the excultation of his rediscovery of the entire corpus of divya-prabandham, extended the festival to 20 days, with the addition of the other three Thousand. In his time, Sri Ramanuja assigned the Third Thousand, iyaRpA, to tiruvaranGattu-amudanAr, to be recited on the day after AzhvAr-beatitude, at the end of the festival.
The SriGuNa-ratnakOSam of Sri Bhattar is recited, same as with SriranGa-rAja-stavam, in the psalmodist GOshThee (which has a high presence of the descendants of Sri Parasara Bhattar and of Sri Vedavyasa Bhattar), on the sand-stretch (maNal-veLi azhakiyAnn, west arm of the fourth enclosure known as Ali-nADan tiru-c-chuRRu, after tiru-manGai who apparently planned for it by leaving the vast space unbuilt). The AzhvAr-s reach the grand palm-thatch pavilion on the next outer enclosure, while AzhvAr, para-kAlan, and uDaiyavar reach the GOshThee site for the recitation which begins as soon as Our Lord (nam-perumAL) sets out for the 'araiyar-sEvai' in the 'thousand-pillared' tiru-mA-maNi maNDapam. It is totally transporting to witness the manner in which Our Lord reaches in long strides to meet the prapanna-ultimate, AzhvAr, and the high-key recitation of the
concluding verse, "GuNa-tunGatayA tava ranGa-patE..." The SriGuNa-ratnakOSam is recited on the seventh day of the irA-p-pattu. This part of my report is from personal observation while sitting behind my brother Sri Kannan reciting in the GOshThee.
I am not wiser than you, Mani, but Sri Guna Ratna Kosha is perhaps written SriGuNa-ratnakOSam as indicated. It is not a mere prefixing of the Sri honorofic, but signifies the treasure of the benignities of Sri. As befits the SrivaishNava sampradAyam.
Best wishes from
tirumanjanam Sundara Rajan
(Srirangam)
srimate ramanujaya namah
Dear Friends,
A western scholar with whom I'm in touch was curious about how Sri Bhattar's
"Sri Guna Ratna Kosha" was used formally, whether it is used in any particular worship
at home or in temples. If any of you can fill me in, particularly those of you
who are familiar with the kramas in Divya Desams, I would be greatly obliged.
Please email me directly if possible.
with regards,
adiyen ramanuja dasan
Mani
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