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SrImathE ranga rAmAnuja mahA dEsikAya namaha
SrI ranganAtha Divya maNi pAdhukAbhyAm namaha

Dear Bhagavathas,

This is the Continuation of Posting on Life History of
Srimath Thirukkudanthai Andavan. This is the second
Volume in the series. 
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Tomorrow Mar. 24,2002 (Panguni-Pushyam) in the
Thirunakshtra dinam of Srimath Thirukkudanthai
Andavan. Let's all recite this mahA purushA's dhanian
on this auspicious day..

Srimath vEdhAntha rAmAnuja munikarunAlabdha vEdhAntha
yugmam
Srimath SrivAsa yogeeswara gurupadhayOrarpithaswAthma
bhAram
Srimath Sri ranganAthAhvaya munikrupayA prAptha
mOkshasramam tham
Srimath VEdhAntha rAmAnuja munimaparam samsrayE
dEsikEndram

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Continuation of Life History....

Younger days of Srimath Thirukkudanthai Andavan

SwAmi was born after a long gap of 5 years after the
passing away of His sister. Because of this, His
parents grew him up with excessive care and attention.
He was fondly called by everybody as ?Kannan?. He was
also named as ?SrinivAsarAghavan?.

Kannan swAmi was taken to Srirangam periAsramam many a
times by his father during His childhood days. He used
to observe the pAdukA ArAdhanam being performed there
and when he came back to kudanthai, he will play with 
friends of his age posing himself as an AchAryA,
wearing a cloth up to knee height and will have a
dhandam in his hand and proclaim himself as Andavan.
He will carry the water in ?kottankacchi? ? a dried
coconut shell ( Srirangam periAsramam is also called
kottAnkacchi Asramam) and distribute the ?theertham?
in the same way Srimath thErezhundur Andavan used to
do ( focusing both His eyes in one direction). He will
do all this with out the knowledge of his father.

When His father was around, his friends would never
dare to visit him. Kannan swAmi would never even stand
in front of his father leave alone talking to him one
on one. He had so much of respect towards him. Since
He was very young, he had limitless devotion towards 
ArAvamudhan. His father would never allow him to have
bath in the kAvEri river unlike other kids. Also, he
would never take his son out during the festival
seasons. Even if Kannan swAmi himself set out for
festivals like ?Theppa mahOtsavams?, his father would
send his mother to bring him back home. This is all
because of losing his infant younger brother who was
hardly 10 months old when he himself was only 10 years
old. So his parents became extremely protective about
him. Kannan SwAmi himself used to say at that time
that he would have had more freedom had his brother
stayed alive. 

Sri padmanabhAchAr swAmi taught him the
aruLicheyalgaLs of Alwars ? NalAyira divya prabhandham
at a tender age and swAmi mastered 
?tamil maRai? before he completed 14 years. He also
learnt sAstras under the tutelage of Sri. SeshasAyee
in kottaiyur. 

Sri padmanabhAchAr swAmi sent his son to Raja pAtasAla
in KamAkshi jOsyar street for some time to learn more
on sAstrAs. Later swAmi learnt tharka meemAmsA
vyAkarana sAstrAs under dEvanAgar viLagam swAmi along
with Navaneetham swAmi? son , Sri. SEshAdriyAchAr. He
stood as a paragon, gaining extensive knowledge in all
the sAstrAs he learnt and was likened by one and all
for his amiable demeanor. He also qualified for
Sanskrit Sironmani fromThiruvaiyAru Sanskrit college.
Whenever NammAndavan and EngaLAndavan visited
Thirukkudanthai in their respective times, Sri Kannan
swAmi performed kAlakshEpams on adhyAtma sAstrAs under
their lotus feet. One of those times, Srimath
EngaLAndavan performed ?Athma samarpaNam? to Sri
Kannan swAmi in Amudhan sannidhi.

SwAmi had been performing kainkaryam to divya dEsam
perumALs even much before becoming Andavan. During
His younger days, there was an old woman living in the
sannidhi street where swAmi was also living. She was a
very pious woman who was performing kainkaryams to
many divya dEsam perumALs that were very dear to her.
For Amudham, she made ?sArngam? and ?ThirumaNN kAppu? 
in gold, garland in ThuLasi and sALagrAmam for
ThiruviNNagarappan and also made ?kavacham? in silver
for Amudham?s garuda vAhanam ( which presumably took
about 56 kilograms of silver in those days).Sri Kannan
swAmi used to help her in performing the above said
kainkaryams looking after the accounts. It seems she
became to be popularly called as ?Garuda vAhana
Paatti? after this kainkaryam she performed for
Amudhan.

(To be continued....)

Srimath Andavan Thiruvadi,
dAsan,
venkat Sreenivasan

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