<< Previous<\/a><\/p>\n AzhwAr<\/a>, after mercifully mentioning about the way emperumAn<\/a> came to thirumalai, further says that by looking at the divine hands of thiruvEnkatamudaiyAn (the Lord who has thiruvEnkatam as his dwelling place) one can state with assurance that they have grown in order to topple the enemies. Let us look at the pAsuram and its meanings:<\/p>\n malaiyAl kudai kaviththu mAvAy piLandhu<\/em> malaiyAl \u2013 with gOvardhana hill vyAkyAnam<\/strong><\/p>\n malaiyAl kudai kaviththu<\/strong> \u2013 it is natural for people to open an umbrella when it rains. But what did emperumAn<\/a> do when indhra, the chieftain of dhEvas (celestial beings), started a hailstorm? He took out a hill and held it as an umbrella! emperumAn reasoned\u00a0 \u201cindhra is not a demon. Since I have eaten the food meant for him, he is angry and is showering the hailstorm. Let me not harm him. Let me hold this mountain as an umbrella and protect the cowherds and the cows\u201d and hence held the gOvardhana hill as an umbrella.<\/p>\n mA vAy piLandhu<\/strong> \u2013 when the demon kESi came in the form of a horse and started indulging in extensive harm, emperumAn<\/a> tore his mouth and killed him. Even sages such as nAradha et al screamed in fear on seeing the demon. But emperumAn tore him like one would tear a blade of elephant grass by thrusting kESi\u2019s mouth with his hands.<\/p>\n silaiyAl marAmarm Ezh seRRu<\/strong> \u2013 with the help of a bow, emperumAn<\/a> pierced holes in seven peepal trees in rAmAvathAram. It appears to AzhwAr<\/a> that both rAmAvathAram and krishNAvathAram are alike since he is speaking about the activities of krishNa both before and after this incident but in between he mentions an activity in rAmAvathAram. Wasn\u2019t this action done by emperumAn only in order to create belief in sugrIva (the monkey king), his devotee, on his strength!<\/p>\n kolai yAnaip pOrkkOdu osiththanavum<\/strong> \u2013 in rAmAvathAram, since emperumAn was born in the lineage of warriors, he used a bow which is the weapon for warriors. But in krishNAvathAram, he was a cowherd and depended on his physical strength (his hand) to kill the elephant kuvalayApIdam<\/em>.\u00a0 This elephant was killing those that it happened to encounter with its tusks, which are useful to it in times of war. krishNa caught hold of those tusks and broke them and pushed the elephant to its death.<\/p>\n pUngurundham sAiththanavum<\/strong> \u2013 the tree kurundham (a type of tree) was full of flowers from close to its roots to the top. It was such that children were very much attracted to it. emperumAn<\/a> went to it as if he were going to pluck flowers from it and pushed it completely.<\/p>\n kArrkOdu paRRiyAn kai<\/strong> \u2013 AzhwAr<\/a> says that all these activities [mentioned above] have been carried out by one whose hands hold kArkkOdu<\/em>. kAr<\/em> means cloud. emperumAn\u2019s hand is holding the conch pAnchajanyam<\/em> which looks like a cloud. Looking beautiful and making loud noise are common to both cloud and pAnchajanya<\/em>. Alternative explanation \u2013 the conch pAnchajanya <\/em>is holding on to emperumAn whose complexion is like the cloud. In this case, emperumAn\u2019s divine form looks like cloud in terms of its colour and beauty. Thus the meaning here will be that emperumAn is holding the conch with his hand which looks like cloud. His hands are so tender that they will become red by merely holding the conch. With such soft hands, AzhwAr says, he has carried out the difficult tasks as mentioned above. In this pAsuram, in the terms osiththanavum<\/em> and sAyththanavum<\/em> reference is to plural number [of hands] while in the end the reference is to the singular form kai<\/em> [hand]. There is nothing contrary in these terms as what is meant is that emperumAn<\/a> effortlessly carried out difficult to achieve tasks which require many hands, with his single, soft hand.<\/p>\n We shall enjoy the 28th<\/sup> pAsuram next.<\/p>\n adiyEn krishNa ramanuja dhAsan<\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n pramEyam (goal) \u2013 https:\/\/koyil.org<\/a> SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai AzhwAr, after mercifully mentioning about the way emperumAn came to thirumalai, further says that by looking at the divine hands of thiruvEnkatamudaiyAn (the Lord who has thiruvEnkatam as his dwelling place) one can state with assurance that they have grown … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iyarpa","category-mudhal-thiruvandhadhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/rama-7-trees.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\navathArikai<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n silaiyAL marAmaram Ezh seRRu kolaiyAnaip<\/em>
\n pOrkkOdu osiththanavum pUm kurundham sAyththanavum<\/em>
\n kArkkOdu paRRiyAn kai<\/em><\/p>\nWord by Word Meanings<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nkudai kaviththu \u2013 inverted like an umblrella
\nmA vAy piLandhu \u2013 tearing apart the mouth of demon kESi who came in the form of a horse
\nsilaiyAl \u2013 with a bow
\nmarAmaram Ezh seRRu \u2013 piercing seven peepal trees
\nkolai yAnai \u2013 the elephant which was placed to kill
\npOr kOdu osiththanavum \u2013 breaking the tusks which engage in fighting
\npUm kurundham sAyththanavum \u2013 pushing the kurundha tree
\nkAr kOdu \u2013 Sankam (conch pAnchajanya) which reverberates like the cloud
\npaRRiyAn kai \u2013 is the divine hand of one who holds it.<\/p>\n
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