Dear Sri Sampath kumar, Thank you for your wishes. Probably you have missed my earlier postings about the prabhandam and the author. Please check out for the postings underthe following topics in the archives: "mazhisai paranadiyE vAzhththu" "Ezhil chandhaviruththamum azhagiya andhAdhiyum" If you are unable to find them then let me know adiyen will send it to you. Alwar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam Adiyen ramanuja dAsee Sumithra Varadarajan Sampath Kumar <drsam@xxxx> wrote: SrimatheE rAmAnujaya Namaha SrimatheE rAmAnujaya Saranam Saranam Prapathye Dear Smt. Sumithra Varadarajan Pranams. We are all very happy that you are attempting to write commenteries on "nAnmugan thiruvandhAdhi". We pray to emberuman and emberumanar and all our great acharyaas that your efforts will succeed and they will be with you to guide you through the process. However, I have a simple request. For people like me, who is in the very elementary stages of learning, please provide an introduction of what is "nAnmugan thiruvandhAdhi" and the vaibhavam of the prabandham and also about the author. If the foundation is set well, the understanding of the prabandham will be much more enjoyable and fruitful. Alwar EmperumAnAr Acharyan thiruvadigale saranam Adiyen Sampath Kumar.. sumithra varadarajan wrote: >Sri Parthasarathi thunai >SrimathE rAmAnujaya Namaha >Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha >Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha > >Dear bhagavatas, > >Meditating on the divine feet of Sri rukmini samEtha Sri Parthasarathi >emperuman and the divine grace of asmad Acharyan HH Sri Vanamamalai Jeeyer >swamy and the blessings of all the bhagavatas adiyen is venturing into this >daring effort to write about the divine work of Sri bhakthisArar >(thirumazhisai pirAn), nAnmugan thiruvandhAdhi. Adiyen wants to take this task >as a process of learning and enjoying the greatness and divine anubhavams of >the arulicheyal with our poorvacharya vyakhyanams with you all. Adiyen >requests all the learned bhagavatas to correct me wherever necessary and >prevent any wrong interpretations spread to many ignorant people like adiyen. >Adiyen?s writeup will be based on periyavAchAn pillai?s vyakhyanam, Appilai?s >vyakhyanam and the simple divya prabhandha sAra vyakhyanam written by Sri >Krishnaswamy iyengar (sudarsanar). > >In this posting we will start with the thaniyan to nanmugan thiruvandhAdhi. > >?athivAdhee bhava? (argue that the paramapurushan is superior) orders the >vedas. That is what all our Azhvars did. But unfortunately the statements of >the Azhvars, including nammazhvar were not consistent. In some placesthey gave >room to doubts though their basic intention was only to prove the parathvam of >Sriman Narayanan. Though nammAzhvar established his matham in ?ondrum devu? >(ThiruvAimozhi(Tv) 4-10) still kudrishtis pointed only to ?muniyE nAnmuganE? >(Tv-10-10-1)?ariyai ayanai aranai alattri? (Tv-10-10-11) and similar verses >and started writing books on ?satakOpan samarasam? ?Azhvar samarasam? etc. The >same is the case with mudal Azhvars, though they clearly stated ?ammoovarullum >mudalAvAn moorineervannan? (mudal thiru-15) ?mAmalarAn vArsadayAn >endrivarkatku eNNaththAnAmO emai? (moondram thiru ?97) still the well spread >verses are ?thAzhsadaiyum neelmudiyum?thirumalai mEl endhaikku eranduruvum >ondrAi esaindhu? (moondram thiru-63) but our thirumazhisai azhvar, praised as > uraiyilidAdhavar gives no room for such arguments. No were in his prabhandam > can there arise any query about the parathvam of Sriman Narayanan. > >Thaniyan > >?nArAyanan padaiththAn nAn mugamAi, nAnmuganukku > A-rAr sivan pirandhAn ennum sol- seerAr > mozhi seppi vAzhalAm nenjamE, moipoo > mazhisai paranadiyE vAzhththu? > >As you all already know thaniyan is a ?thani padal? that is a paasuramthat >does not belong to the prabhandam but it is chanted before chanting the >prabhandam in order to praise the greatness of either the prabhandam or the >author of the prabhandam. Due to his divine grace on us Sri pillailokamjeeyer >(grand son of Sri pattarbiran jeeyer, one of the ashtadiggajas of Swamy >Manavala mAmunikal) has rendered commentaries for all the thaniyans innalayira >divya prabhandam. We will thereby enjoy the meaning of this thaniyan also >based on his vyakhyanam. > >This thaniyan was authored by the second son of Sri KoorathAzhvan, a very >close disciple of swamy EmperumAnAr, and the younger brother of Sri Parasara >bhattar, Sri veda vyasa bhattar alias Srirama pillai. In this thaniyan, Sri >Veda vyasa bhattar instructs his heart, ?Oh! My heart let us chant this >prabhandam of bhakthisArar, which explains in detail about the greatness and >superiority of emperuman and get uplifted. For that first of all you >domangalAsAsanams to the divine feet of that great thirumazhisai Azhvar?. > >(To be continued) > >Alwar EmperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam > >Adiyen rAmAnuja dAsee >Sumithra Varadarajan > > > >--------------------------------- >Do you Yahoo!? >Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > >azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam > > >Your use of Yahoo! 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