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Dear Vardarajan Swamin:

Adiyen heard that, the thiruvadi nilai of Swamy
Nammalwar at Alwar Thirunagari is Swamy Ramanujar.
AT other divydesams , thiruvadi nilai of Swamy 
Nammalwar is Madhurakavi Alwar.

Adiyen requests Swamin to kindly verify and conform
the above...

adiyEn
senthil.b


--- Varadarajan Sourirajan <varadarajan_tcs@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Srimathe Ramanujaya namaha
>   Srimad Vara Vara MunayE Namaha
>   Sri vAnAchala mahA munAyE Namaha
>    
>   Punarpoosam thirunakshtra significance
>    
>   Of all the twenty-seven Nakshatrams of the Tamil
> calendar, ¡§Punarpoosam¡¨ deserves a special
> mention.  This nakshatram boasts of the
> thiruavatAram of the following divinities:
>   Sri Chakravarthi Thirumagan (a) Sri Ramapiran 
> Chittirai month 
>   Sri Kulasekara Azhwar (a) Sri Kulasekarap perumal
> ¡V mAsi month 
>   Sri Embar (a) Ramanuja padhachchAya ¡V thai month 
>   Sri Mudaliyandan (a) Sri DAsarathi ¡V Chittirai
> month 
>   Sri Vanamamalai onnAna JEEyar swamy (a) Sri
> Ponnadikal Jeeyar swamy ¡V purattAsi month 
>   Sri kArapankAdu venkatAchariyar swamy (a)
> kArapankAdu swamy. ¡V panguni month.
>    
>   Significance of the title PonnadikAl Jeeyar
>    
>   Owing to the vicinity of the kanyA punarvasu or
> the PurattAsi punarpoosam which falls on 14th of
> October 2006, this posting aims to bring out the
> prabhAvam of Sri vAnamAmalai onnana Jeeyar swamy. 
> The pseudonym ¡§Ponnadi-kAl Jeeyar¡¨ draws a
> distinctive attention.  It¡¦s only after the advent
> of this achArya, swamy manavAla mAmunikal¡¦s sishya
> sampath (Wealth of Sishyas), grew multifold and
> hence the name ¡§ponnadikAl¡¨ (meaning feet of
> gold).
>   Swamy rAmAnuja spread Srivaishnavism through 74 of
> his disciples called simhAsanAdhipathis. Likewise
> manavAla mAmunikal spread it through eight of his
> disciples called Ashta Diggajas. The first and
> foremost amongst them is Vanamamalai onnAna Jeeyar
> swamy who established innumerable Mutts, throughout
> India called thOthAdri/Vanamamalai mutts.
>    
>   Thiruvadi of Swamy manavAla mAmunikal
>    
>   When the devotees (adiyArs) go to any of the
> Srivaishnva temples, we have the practice of,
> archakAs placing the lotus feet of the lord (sri
> SatAri or sri satakOpam) on the heads of all the
> presents in the gOshti (Assembly of adiyArs).  This
> is how the relationship is established between the
> adiyArs and the archA moorthi of the emperuman in
> any divya desam.  Getting the thEErtha prasadam and
> sri satakOpam is the primary duty of any
> srivaishnava.  This holds good for all the azhwars
> and achAryas sannadhis. To elaborate,
>    
>   ?«      emperuman¡¦s lotus feet  (thiruvadi nilai)
> is sri satakOpam (swamy nammAzhwAr)
>   ?«      swamy nammazhwAr¡¦s thiruvadi nilai is
> swamy rAmAnuja
>   ?«      swamy rAmAnuja¡¦s thiruvadi nilai is swamy
> mudaliyAndAn
>   ?«      all other achAryAs (after swamy ramanuja)
> thiruvadi nilai is swamy manavAla mAmunikal.
>   ?«      Swamy manavAla mAmunikal¡¦s thiruvadi
> nilai is swamy ponnadikAl jeeyar or swamy onnana
> vanamAmalai jeeyar commonly called as ponnadiyAm
> sengamalam.
>   (There are certain exceptions to the above, such
> as 
>   ?æ     swamy ramAnujA¡¦s thiruvadi nilai in
> thirumalai is swamy anandAzhwAn
>   ?æ     swamy nammAzhwAr¡¦s thiruvadi nilai in
> azhwAr thirunagari is swamy madhura kavi azhwAr )
>    
>   Hence to get the sambandham (relationship) of
> swamy manavAla mAmunikal, ponnadikAl jeeyar swamy¡¦s
> importance becomes an unspoken niyamanam (rule).
>    
>   PonnadikAl Jeeyar swamy¡¦s association with Periya
> Jeeyar
>   PonnadikAl jeeyar swamy was very close to periya
> jeeyar (swamy manavAla mAmunikal). Swamy always
> wanted Vanamamalai Jeeyer to have all the fame and
> fortune he possessed.  Hence he blessed Vanamamalai
> swamy also with ashtadiggajAs similar to his great
> ashtadiggajAs.  Thereby, he appointed the following
> ashtadiggajAs to Vanamamalai swamy: 
>    
>   mahAryar 
>   saramapungavar 
>   Suddha sathvam anna 
>   appAchiyAr anna 
>   rAmAnujam pillai 
>   ghostipuraththayar 
>   pallakkAl siththar 
>   Jnana kan-AththAn. 
>    
>    Then, Periya Jeeyer also allotted the appropriate
> kainkaryams to each one of them.  From then on,
> Vanamamalai ponnadikkAl swamy remained with great
> fame along with his ashtadiggajAs, as a krupApAthram
> of periya Jeeyer.  Periya Jeeyer also instructed
> mahAchAryar to compose a thaniyan on his acharya
> which would proclaim his acharya¡¦s greatness for
> ever.  Hearing such an order from periya Jeeyer,
> mahAryar concentrated on the divine qualities of his
> acharya and immersed himself in the ocean of his
> acharya¡¦s qualities and submitted the following to
> his acharya¡¦s divine feet: 
>    
>    RamyajAmAtru yOgeendra pAdha rEkhA mayam sadhA 
>   ThathAyath thAthma sadhdhAthim rAmAnuja munim
> bhajE 
>    
>   Listening to the above, Periya Jeeyer was
> astonished.  He felt that the verse not only got out
> the greatness of Vanamamalai Jeeyer but it was also
> honey flowing to the ears of the listener and hence
> very admirable. 
>   Pleased with the thaniyan told by mahAryar, Periya
> Jeeyer swamy ordered as follows:
>    
>   ¡§Like the ¡§SrisailEsa dayApAthram¡¨ thaniyan,
> which was submitted by periya perumal himself in the
> garuda mandapam with three kandams, this thaniyan
> should also be regarded equally important and should
> be recited by all Srivaishnavas.  Like starting with
> ¡§pallandu pallandu¡¨ and ending with
> ¡§appAnjasanniyamum pallAndE¡¨ considering the first
> and second paasurams of thirupallandu to be like a
> single paasuram and recited together; and like the
> varaha charam slokam which has two parts
> (padhyadvayam) but still considered as a single
> mantram; and like the mantra ratnam, which though
> considered as a single mahA mantra rahasyam, still
> has two parts detailing about the angam and angi;
> and like the ¡¥Hari¡¦ padham which has 2 aksharas;
> Consider ¡§SrisailEsa¡¨ thaniyan and ¡§ramya
> jAmAthru yOgeendra¡¨ thaniyan to be connected to
> each other and to have equal importance.¡¨
>    
>    
>   Greatness of vAnamAmalai jeeyer swamy
>   Swamy was responsible for acting as purushakaram
> (recommendation) for annan and others to surrender
> to the divine feet of Sri Periya Jeeyer and also
> accepted a few of them as his shisyas as per the
> order of Sri Periya Jeeyer. 
>   Swamy was responsible to bring appillai and
> appullAr to the divine feet of Sri Periya Jeeyer
> swamy.  First swamy convinced periya jeeyer to
> accept them as his disciples and then he went to the
> banks of kaveri and along with the help of
> erumbiappa, swamy brought both appillai and appullAr
> to the divine feet of Periya Jeeyer and made them
> the two among the ashtadiggajas of Sri Mamunikal. 
>   Sri Periya Jeeyer himself used to praise and call
> Swamy as ¡§PonnadikkAl Jeeyer¡¨. Periya Jeeyer
> considered swamy his very close disciple and also an
> atma bandhu and also wanted vanamamalai swamy to get
> all the pleasure and treasure he obtained. And hence
> made swamy sit in his seat and presented his
> thirukkai Azhvars in the hands of vanamamalai swamy
> and asked him to do samAsrayanam just like him. Then
> Periya Jeeyer appointed ashtadiggajas for
> vanamAmalai Jeeyer swamy just like his own
> ashtadiggajas. 
>    
>   Further Periya Jeeyer sent vanamamalai swamy to
> tour in the northern states as his representative
> and fulfill his wish to uplift all jeevatmas over
> there and bring them to our sampradayam by giving
> them ramanuja sambhandam through samAsrayanam. 
> During his last days, Periya Jeeyer instructed his
> upadandam, thiruvAzhimOdhiram and thiruvadinilai of
> his own acharya thiruvAimozhi pillai to be given to
> vanamamalai Jeeyer, though swamy was not near periya
> Jeeyer at the time when periya jeeyer attained
> paramapadam.  Periya Jeeyer had his special grace on
> vanamamalai swamy. 
>    
>   Vanamamalai swamy also was blessed specially by
> Periya perumal, and that is why he gifted him the
> aranganagarappan and himself went with him to
> vanamamalai.  There is no need to say that
> vanamamalai perumal, who have got his divine
> consort, srivaramangai nAchiyar as kannikAdAnam from
> swamy had his special wishes for swamy and that is
> why he gave all the responsibilities of the
> deivanAyakan sannadhi kainkaryams to swamy himself. 
> Next thiruvEnkatamudaiyan, showed the greatness of
> swamy and his acharya bhakthi in the dream of
> thiruvEnkata periya kElvi Jeeyer and thus showed his
> love for Vanamamalai Jeeyer.  And nAchiyar in
> thirumalai accepting swamy as her father shows
> largely the great mahimai of PonnadikkAl Jeeyer
> swamy. 
>    
>    With the blessings of all the perumals swamy did
> a lot of kainkaryam in the deivanAyakan sannadhi,
> thirukkurungudi 
=== message truncated ===



                
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