sri:
Dear and respected devotees: Please accept my humble pranam:
I am passing this information as taught to me by my Acharyan
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AdyayanaUtsavam and Anadhyayana Kalam: Information, background and reasons
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Azhvar's Prabhandam (Arulicheyal) is The Dravida Vedam.
The LORD has assigned the Anadhyayana Kala to be followed by HIS devotees.
After Thirumangai Azhvar Started the AdyayanaUtsavam, LORD Ranganatha
commanded the Dravida Veda equal status as Samskrita Veda.
(PS: Dravida Veda is granted equal status as Samskrita Veda, but is in fact
even a
step higher for many, as the Right to Chant Dravida Veda is open to all
devotees of the Lord and the meanings in Dravida Veda are direct, clear and
concise)
The LORD assigned Anadhyayana Kalam, during which time no one should recite the
Dravida Vedam, (unless it is chanted in Adyayana Utsavam for the LORD)
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In all the Dhivya Desams that follow tradition, Chanting of Dravida Veda is
restricted during the anadhyayana kalam, as per the Command of the LORD.
Tradition being followed in Srirangam, Kanchee Varadarajar and all Kanchee
Kshetrams,
Thirumalai, Thirunaryanapuram, Thiruvallikeni, and other Dhivya Desams : -
On the day of Thirukkarthikai after the Purappadu and Thailakkappu,
the pattolai is read from LORD to Nammazhvar.
The LORD commands ,
"I and my two Nacchiyars will be seated in the simmasana during the
pagal patthu and rappathu utsavam days and will listen to all the prabhandams.
Till then, no one should recite them". This is LORD's command.
Then starting the next day, none of the Azhvar prabhandams are recited.
During the nityapadis (daily recitals) only UpadesaRatnamalai is recited.
Thiruvaimozhi Noothandhadhi is recited on the Thiruvadhirai and Moolam days.
During the Satrumurai, the four + 8 verses of Thiruppallandu are not recited.
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Exemption is only during the Dhanur masam days. (Margazhi)
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ThiruppAvai is recited during the Dhanur masam.
After the Iyarppa Sathumurai is over, Thiruppallandu thodakkam is be done
and then the regular recitation of all the prabhandams continues in the Temples.
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Devotees who perform Nitya Aradhana at Homes, wait till Thai masam
Hasta Nakshatram before resuming all Dravida VedacChantings at home.
==Background on Thiru Adyayana Utsavam=======================
The Tradition of Thiru Adhyayana Uthsavam was started by Thirumangai Azhvar.
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Thirumangai Azhvar started the tradition of Adhyayana Uthsavam
in Srirangam.
ThirumangaiAzhvar would travel to Azhvar Thirunagari (tiruk kurugur)
and bring Swami Nammazhvar's Thirumeni to Sri Rangam
on ShuklaPaksha Ekadasi (Vaikunta Ekadasi)
The next 10 days Swami Nammazhwar's prabhandhams were chanted
in front of Namperumal. Thirumangai Azhvar started this practice of
chanting Nammazhvar's pasurams as a ten day event.
This is what we call today as IrapPathu or Thiruvaimozhi Thirunaal.
After the 10th day event (10 days after Vaikunta Ekadasi)
Nammazhvar was taken back to Azhvar Thirunagari.
He would arrive at Azhvar Thirunagari on the day:
Star: hastam, month: thai.
For the start of this ceremony Thirumangai Azhvar will start from Srirangam on
the day of Karthigai
Karthigai (his own thirunakshatram). Even till today this tradition is
followed in most
of the temples where the Kattiyakarar or the Sthalathar who has the traditional
rights
alongwith temple's Paricharakas goes to Swami Nammazhwar's shrine and reads the
message from the Perumal. The day Swami Nammazhwar arrives in SriRangam
was always the Sukla Paksha Ekadasi (Sri Vaikunta Ekadasi).
On this auspicious day, Swami Nammazhwar is adorned with Muthangi and
Namperumal with Rathnangi. Starting from Ekadasi, next nine days,
Sri Thirumangai Azhwar arranged to recite Swami Nammazhwar's prabhandhams
in front of Namperumal.
After the days of Sri Thirumangai Azhwar, the practice was slowly stopped.
It was Sri Nathamunigal who restarted this practice.
After Thirumangai Azhvar's time, due to practical difficulties
(of bringing Nammazhvar to Srirangam), a Thirumeni of Swami Nammazhvar
was installed in SriRangam temple.
After a few hundred years, Svami Ramanuja, revived and revitalized this
ceremony.
(as per the Thiruvullam of Nathamunugal)
Sri Ramanujar added ten days before the Ira Paththu and called them
Pagal Paththu, and arranged that during these ten days prabhandhams of other
Azhvars
should be recited. Also Sri Ramanuja added one more day for Iyarpa.
Because, Sri Thirumangai Azhwar started it, the day before the Pagal Paththu
Uthsavam first day, Namperumal listens to ThiruNedunthandagam of Sri
Thirumangai Azhwar. So, originally started as ten days festival by Sri
Thirumangai Azhwar and was later modified as Twenty days (+one day for
ThiruNedunthandagam) by Swami Emberumanar.
Anadhyayana kalam starts during Karthigail Karthigai and normally ends on
Thai hastham (Sri Koorathazhwan's thirunakshatram).
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PS: Mistakes if any, are complately mine (because of my human nature)
please point them to me, with reasons and information.
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