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 === __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ Azhvar EmberumAnAr JeeyAr ThiruvadigalE Saranam http://www.vedics.net Yahoo! 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