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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe rAmAnujaya Namaha

Sri vara vara munayE Namaha

Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha

 

?poigaiyAr bhoodhaththAr pEyAr pugazh mazhisai

iyan arul mAran sEralarkOn-tuiyapatta

nAdhan anbartAl thooli narpAnan nankaliyan

edhivar thOtrath thadaivAm engu?

 

?In her divine work thiruppavai, our dear kodhA piratti, soodikodduththa 
nAchiyar Sri Andal, from the sixth to the fifteenth paasuram wakes up the ten 
Azhvars?, enjoys our poorvacharyas in their svabhadeshArtham (these are special 
anubhavams of our acharyas which are near and dear to their heart). Andal is 
regarded as ?anju kudikkoru sandhadhi? (as a daughter to all the Azhvars). In 
the above mentioned ten paasurams andal awakens the Azhvars one by one starting 
with periyAzhvar, andal?s foster father who brought her up and then she goes in 
a descending order till poigai azhvar and in the following seven paasurams 
explains the seven thirunAmams respectively. Then she proceeds to wake up the 3 
azhvars, anbartAl thooli, narpAnan and nankaliyan who are going to take birth 
in future predicting their birth by her jnana drishti.

 

Sri PrathivAdi bhayangaram annangaracharya swamy deeply immerses himself inthe 
anubhavam of andal singing thirupalliezhuchi to the various Azhvars inher 
paasurams and explains the correlations in meanings and words in the lines of 
andal that indicates the Azhvars. Let us also enjoy swamy?s anubhavams to the 
smallest extent possible.

 

 

?pullum silambina kAn?

 

This paasuram awakens periyAzhvar (periyAzhvar thirupalliezhuchi). Andal calls 
periAzhvar as ?pillAi!? One who is ignorant is called as ?pillAi?. What is 
periAzhvar?s ignorance? Periazhvar is ignorant (has forgotten) of the fact that 
perumal is sarva rakshakan (one who is the saviour of all) and hence he does 
mangalasasanams to perumal for the welfare of emperuman. Hence andal calls 
periAzhvar as ?pillAi?. ?jnana vibhAga kAryamAna agnAnaththAlE varumavaiellAm 
adikazhanju perum? says pillai ulagAriyan in his Srivachana bhooshanam. Here 
lokAcharya shows that agnanam is the root for mangalAsAsanam. Since this azhvar 
has spent most of his time in the garden, in this paasuram andal starts the 
paasuram indicating the atmosphere in a garden, ?pullum silambina kAn?. 
?Pullaraiyan? refersto Periya thiruvadi (Sri garudAzhvan). According to the 
guru parampara prabhAvam periAzhvar is supposed to be the avathara of Periya 
thiruvadi (?vainathEyAmsa sambhoodham vishnuchittham aham
bhajE?). Here andal indicates the same and says ?pullaraiyan?. 

 

?vellai vilisangu? is a phrase which has been first used by periAzhvar 
(periAzhvar thirumozhi 4-1-7). Andal repeats the same in this paasuram to 
strongly show the correlation of this paasuram to periAzhvar. ?peimulai 
nanjundu?-- PeriAzhvar, out of all the leelas of Krishna, first talks only 
about the incident of Krishna drinking the poisoned milk of bhoothaki in 
periyAzhvar thirumozhi (seedhakadalul) ?pirangiya pEichi mulai suvaitundittu? 
says periAzhvar in another paasuram. In one another paasuram ?nAlgalOr 
nAlaindhu? periAzhvar combines the incident of sagadAsurabhangam along with the 
above incident. So Andal here also says, ?peimulai nanjundu kalla sagadam 
kalakkazhiya kAlOchchi?. ?vella tharavil thuyilamarindha viththinai 
vullaththukkonda munivargalum yOgigalum? says andal. PeriAzhvar is called as 
?Vishnu chittar?-one whose mind is always filled with the thought of lord 
Vishnu. So the above line of andal also indicates towards periAzhvar.

 

Now that andal has awaken periAzhvar in this paasuram lets see how she awakens 
kulasekara perumAn in the next paasuram in the next posting.

 

Azhvar EmperumAnAr Andal Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam

 

Adiyen rAmAnuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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