Drum beating and blowing of conch takes place then. When Lord enters auspicious kalasams, lamps are brought by youths. Lord and Andal then take Kankana (thread) to take marriage vows. Priests is seen as brought Water from Holy Rivers from all directions and chants loudly the Mantras in benediction. Andal is then in bridal saree and with flower garland. Indra and other celestials request her hand for Lord and present the saree sanctified by chanting mantras. Andal then sees the Lord entering the decorated wedding pandal for the wedding on the morrow. Purnakumbhams are kept and many thoranam or festoons are used in decoration to welcome Him. She says that the Lord is coming in a procession with thousand elephants, first. Varanamayiram, is just description of her dream about her marriage with Lord.
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The wedding scenes that Kothai describes are full of beauty and superb in imagination, and have a divine vedic flavor. Traditional belief is that when this ritual is performed, the newly wedded couple’s lives forever remain sweet.
Even today, this sixth tirumozhi is being sung in Tirumalai Kalyana Utsavam daily and in all Vaishnava weddings as Thengai uruttal. Varanamayiram, is a very renowned tirumozhi. He personifies her to Lakshmi who has immense Karuna for her devotees and so sings as “sakshaath kshamam karunaya kamalam ivanyam”in the very first sloka. Swami Desikan praises Andal in his Godasthuthi and compares Andal with Kshama also called Bhoomi Devi. Kothai revealed to us clearly through her pasurams, the esoteric meanings (Rahasyathrayam ) of Ashtakshari, Dhwayam and Charamaslokam given by Lord Krishna to great warrior Arjuna in the Kurukshetra battle fields. Tiruppavai has unique popularity in having many commentaries. But Nachiar Thirumozhi starts with the name of the next tamil month Thai as “Thai oru thinngalum”. Thiruppavai starts with the name of the month of Margazhi, which Krishna in Geetha told as masanam margasirso aham. Pori mugam thatta kana kanden thozhi naanĮeraindum vallavar vaayum nan makkalai petru maghizhvareĪndal’s Nachiar Thirumozhi is with 143 verses attempting various methods to join with Lord Krishna. Varisilai vaaL mugathu ennaimaar thaam vandhittu Vaai nallaar nalla marai odhi mandhirathaal MuthuDai thamam niRainthazhndha pandharkeezh KaappunaaN kaatta kana kanden thozhi naanĬhadhiriLa mangaiyar thaamvandhedhirkolla Since then, he has been tutoring the students (free of charge) for almost two decades.Vandhirindhu ennai magat pesi mandiriththu When an organized and formal daily tutoring on Nalayira Divya Prabhandham was contemplated at the Vedantha Desikar temple in the mid 1990s, it was Srihari’s services that the Veda Parayana Sabha sought. Having learnt from such stalwarts in the 1970s, Srihari was keen to share his learning with the next generation of students and began his Divya Prabhandham tutoring in the mid 1980s initiating the sacred verses of the Azhvaars to a small group of students. Srihari had the fortune of undergoing Aahnikam and Grantha Chathushtaya Kalakshepam from Maha Vidwans Vaikuntavaasi Purisai Nadadhur Sri Bhashya Simhasanam Krishnamacharya Swami and Azhisoor Srinivasacharya Swami.
Hailing from an orthodox family in the Ahobila Mutt tradition, Srihari, son of renowned Bruhaspathi and Vedic scholar Natteri Parthasarathy, learned Nalayira Divya Prabandham from Vaikuntavaasi Sevilimedu Srinivasacharya and later from his maternal uncle Esayanur Sridhara Satakopacharya (presently Aradhakar, Ahobila Mutt) and completed the course at the age of 17. Infuses a sense of discipline and commitment in the entire group. To this day, Divya PrabhandhamĪcharya Srihari remains his disciplined self. Knowledge with an enthusiastic set of boys who showed true devotion in wanting
The commencement of his first organized batch, he would be at the temple at 6amĬompromising on his sleep primarily because he was excited to share his Sports Journalist Srihari (The Hindu) would drive back home well at 1.30amĪfter the sports pages were finalized. The Desikar temple before the clock had ticked to 6am. Boy, Sundararaman would wake up early and very often stand at the entrance of