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 ThathAyath thAthma sadhdhAthim rAmAnuja munim bhajE Adding to the kainkaryams in vanamamalai, ponnadikkAl Jeeyer swamy also made and submitted a crown and other jewels (thiruvAbharanams) for thirukurungudi nambi, renovated the madhis (walls) and gopurams over there and also built a kaisikOtsava mahA mandapam and many other mandapams as part of his kainkaryams in thirukurungudi. Swamy thereby stayed with the kainkarya sri. At that time, one-day swamy bathed in settruthAmarai and finished his anushtanams when one of swamy?s shisyas chinniammAl came and payed homage to swamy?s divine feet. Swamy enquired her about her whereabouts as a seriesof questions. For which chinniammAl answered as follows (the dialogue shows how great a srivaishnavite she was): Oh lady! Which is your Country: Thiruvazhudhi nAdu (place of nammazhvar) House: PandudaiyAn veedu (or pandE adimaiyAgakkonda eraivan veedu, paramapadam) Kulam: Achchudha kulam VEdam: Dravida vEdam (thiruvAimozhi) Sootram: Ramanuja sootram KArigai: parakAla kArigai (parakAlan is thirumangai mannan) Kudi: Anju kudi (andai is praised as ?anju kudikku oru santhadhiyAi?) Friends: Athma bandhus (those who are not physically related to usbut mentally related) Relation: One who knows to join Relatives: uttradhum vumadiyAr (those who do service to the servantsof lord) Father: DeivanAyakan Mother: Srivaramangai Nachiyar Inlaws place: VanamAmalai Husband: Varamangai muni (samAsrayanam is equal to marriage between the shisya and acharya) Father-in-law: kAnthOpayanthA (Sri Manavala mAmunigal) Job: bhAgavata kainkaryam Payment: The job itself is a payment (svayamprayOjanam) Eligibility: sarvAdhikAram (have the right to do all types of kainkaryams) Nishtai: panchamOpAya nishtai (Acharya pratipaththi) UpAyam: charmOpAyam (last among the 5 upayas viz., karma, jnana, bhakthi, prapaththi and acharya bhakthi) AbhimAnam: BhAgavatAbhimAnam Prayer: kainkarya prarthanai Highly pleased with the great intelligence and devotion of the lady, swamy blessed her with the divine abode of emperuman. (To be continued) Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam Adiyen Ramanuja dasyai Sumithra Varadarajan P.S: The earlier postings have been archived at http://www.geocities.com/sumivaradan/General.htm --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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