Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Sri Andal sametha Sri Rengamannar

After Thiru thangalappan perumal, the next who received magalAsAsanam was the most expected Sri Andal samEtha Sri Rengamannar. Everyone including adiyEn eagerly awaited for the arrival of divyadampathi's to receive mangaLAsA- sanam from Azhwar. The commentator explained that, this event resembles Sri Ramanujar performing SaraNAgathi towards divyadampthi's at Sri Rangam. Similarly Azhwar performs saraNAgathi towards divyadampathi's of Sri Villiputtur. The left-side picture shows Sri Andal wearing mookkuththi during mangaLAsAsanam in Pallaku. Look at the standing posture - gambeeram - of Sri Rangamannar in pallaku during mangaLAsAsanam from PeriyAzhwar. One near-by bhakthA commented that, "By the way of His standing posture, He is proving that, He is a son-in-law of Azhwar".

Sri Rangamannar perumAL is incarnation of Sri Ranganathar of Sri Rangam who married Sri Andal. In Periyazhwar Thirumozhi-4.10, "thuppudaiyArai...." pAsuram, Azhwar performed saraNAgathi towards the Lotus thiruvadi of Sri Ranganathar, since the later days he couldn't do that in anthima-sarama days -
eippu ennai vanthu naliyumpOthu angu Ethum nAnunnai ninaikkamAttEn
appothaikku ippOthE sollivaiththEn arangaththaravaNai paLLiyAnE! (1).

In pAsuram PeriyAzhwar Thirumozhi-4.10.8, Azhwar exclaimed that, "AdiyEn is unaware of Your mAyA -un maayamonRum naanaRiyEn - . Oh! King of Devas, one who took birth at Madura - madhurai piRantha mAmaayaa - You have to save adiyEn - nee ennai kaakka vEndum arangatharavaNai paLLiyAnE!


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