Dear Sri Narayanan and Sri Varada Rajan :
Thanks for your notes . Your points about the
date synchronization problems between the most
ancient VedA (Rg) and more recent Dhivya
Prabhandhams are well understood , anticipated
and respected . Thirumangai was indeed a real local king
who lived in the 9th century. Swamy NammAzhwAr
incarnated few centuries earlier ( some say at the beginning
of Kali Yugam ; His disciple Madhura Kavi was here
and lived towards the end of DhwApara Yugam and the
beginning of Kali Yugam . The dating of AzhwAr's avathAra
time is a tug of war between traditionalists & modern day
researchers like Sri Vyaapuri PiLLai et al. I did not want to
get into those controversies , although I lean towards
all AzhwArs being born between 5th and 9th centuries .
The eternal VedAs have a way of looking at some things
and commenting on them elliptically some times . The persistent
reference to " ChathvAri Sahasram " and the mentioning of
Rusmaa in the same manthrams inspired me to intrepret
the way in which I connected the information points.
Indeed , the word Chathwari is often found in Vedic parlance.
ChathwAri Sahasram is 4,000 . Among the four manthrams,
we come across reference to " Chathu: Sahasram gavaam "
( Four thousand cows or words of wisdom).
The "Go " sabdham in Vedic usage has many meanings :
(1) Cow (2) Divine speech (3) Jwalai (4) BhUmi (5) Victory
(6) Flight (7) JnanakkaNN / wisdom eye / the inner eye /
dhivya chakshus (8) Speeding arrow and (9) Moksham.
The path of Moksham described by the MahA Jn~Anis
(AzhwArs who were yet to be born ) thru their 4000 sacred
utterances (NaalAyira dhivya Prabhandham) realized from their
Yoga Balam and Jn~Ana Chakshus for the benefit of
SamsAris falls then in place . The birth of these great path
revealers is what I was commenting upon with a little bit
of poetic license .
This fits in with another general prayer housed in Yajur Vedam :
" Aaa Brahman BrahmaNO Brahmavarchasee jAyatAmA RaashtrE - - "
Yajur Vedam : XXII.22
( O Supreme Lord ! May there be born in this nation , the learned
intellectuals , illustrious for their sacred knowledge ).
That is all !
V.Sadagopan
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