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Sri Parthasarathi thunai
SrimathE ramanujaya Namaha
Srimad Vara Vara munayE Namaha
Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha

Our sampradayam is called as Srivaishnava sampradayam.  According to this 
sampradayam emperuman along with piratti is considered to be everything.  We 
fall to the divine feet of Sriman Narayanan.  The prime identification 
(svaroopa niroopaka dharmam) for perumal himself is the Sri sambhandam.  
Nammazhvar praises thiruvenkatamudaiyan as, "agalagillEn eraiyum endru alarmEl 
mangai urai mArbA".  Thirumazhisai piran says, "thiruvillA dEvarai thErEnmin 
thEvu".  Though we find the importance of Sridevi nachiyar in the paasurams of 
other azhvars one azhvar who started his prabhandam with the Sri sabdham and 
ended with the same is none other than our peyAzhvar who took avataram in 
mAdamAmayilai.  The first two among the mudal azhvars lit lamps (loka deepam 
and jnana deepam) but the third azhvar, peyazhvar without any difficulty of 
lighting any lamp enjoyed the divine beauty of emperuman and sung "ThirukkandEn 
ponmEni kandEn thigazhum arukkan aniniramum kandEn"  First he saw only 'thiru' 
Sridevi nachiyar.  Why? Thayar is the embodiment of mercy.  She doesnt see our 
faults and hence easily gives darshan and not stopping with that she does 
purushakaram and makes emperuman forgive all our mistakes and shower his krupai 
on all of us.  That is why our elders say that whenever we go to a temple we 
have to first visit the sannadhis of azhvar/acharyas, followed by thayar 
sannadhi and with the permission of thayar visit perumal's sannadhi so that 
emperuman's anger on us due to the innumerable apacharams committed by us will 
be softened by thayar in the appropriate manner.  So azhvar also says that he 
saw only 'thiru' Sridevi nAchiyar first.  While completing his prabhandam also 
peyazhvar ends saying, "thEnamarum poo mEl thiru".  So he started the 
prabhandam with 'thiru' and ended with 'thiru'.  Usually the crux of the 
prabhandam can be understood by seeing the first, middle and last paasuram.  We 
have seen that the first and last talk about Sriman Narayanan.  In the middle 
lets see in the thiruvallikeni paasuram what azhvar says, "endhai oruvalli 
thAmaraiyAl ondriya seer mArban thiruvallikeniyAm sendru" Again he talks about 
emperuman on whose chest resides the divine piratti.  So in his single 
prabhandam peyazhvar has excellently put the main aspect of Srivaishnava 
sampradayam.  He ends the prabhandam stating that the divine couples are our 
sole refuge.  Probably only because of the great interest shown by peyazhvar 
towards establishing the importance of sridevi nAchiyar, his avathara stalam is 
called as "mahila pur" (now changed to mylapore) and probably keeping this in 
mind only thirumangai mannan sang mangalasasanams to the ladies in 
mAdamAmayilai thiruvallikeni (piratti being on the top of the list) as 
"oppavarillA mAdargal vAzhum mAdamAmayilai thiruvallikeni".

Andal in her last paasuram in thiruppavai did mangalAsAsanams to "vanga kadal 
kadaindha mAdhavanai kEsavanai".  Where to see mAdhavan and kEsavan together? 
In mylapore there are two temples one for mAdhavan and one for kEsavan and 
inbetween the two temples we find the avathara stalam of peyazhvar and the big 
well in which azhvar was born in a alli flower.  Peyazhvars from both the above 
sannadhis visit the avathara stalam on Iyppasi sadhayam day, thiruavathara 
thirunAl every year and undergo thirumanjanam.  Here are the links to the 
photos of both the azhvars taken after thirumanjanam and alankaram.

1. Peyazhvar at Keshavan Sannidhi: http://www.pbase.com/svami/image/35536400

2. Peyazhvar at Madhavan sannidhi: http://www.pbase.com/svami/image/35536407

It is amazing that many of the azhvars have not given that much importance to 
their avathara stalams and hence not sung about the same.  But peyazhvar has 
done mangalasasanam to emperuman in thiruvallikeni that too first among 
divyadesa mangalasasanam.  There is a separate sannadhi for peyazhvar in 
thiruvallikeni and the street is itself called as "peyazhvar koil street".  
Some say that azhvar took avataram only here in the alli flower since the place 
itself is named only after the pond filled with alli flowers.  The speciality 
here is that for all azhvar/acharya thirunakshatram Sri Parthasarathi emperuman 
due to his atmost sowlabhyam undergoes thirumanjanam with the respective 
azhvar/acharya in the morning and purappadu followed by sattrumarai in the 
evening.  The thirumanjanam and sattrumarai occur only inside the temple 
premises.  But only on peyAzhvar thirunakshatra day, first peyazhvar comes from 
his sannadhi does mangalasasanams to parthasarathi and invites emperuman to his 
sannadhi.  Parthasarathi without any second thought follows suit straight to 
azhvar sannadhi and stays the whole day in azhvar sannadhi and everything 
thirumanjanam, sevai, sAttrumarai occurs only in peyazhvar sannadhi.  Doesn't 
this show that emperuman is surely bhaktha parAdheenan.  He runs to celebrate 
the avathara mahotsavam of his dear devotee.  Who else other than our dear 
Parthasarathi can show such a great sowlabhyam?  He ran to the call of the 
gopis will he not run for the sake of Peyazhvar? 

Photo of Thiruvallikeni pEyazhvar on the sattrumarai day is uploaded in the 
site under the following link.
3. Peyazhvar at Triplicane: http://www.pbase.com/svami/image/35536412

Adiyen will send the link to photos of Parthasarathi during the morning 
purappadu to peyazhvar sannadhi and evening thiruveedhi purappadu soon.

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam
Adiyen ramanuja dAsan/dAsee
Varadarajan/Sumithra




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