<< Previous<\/a><\/p>\n In the same breath as when he spoke of emperumAn<\/a> keeping all the worlds under his divine feet, AzhwAr<\/a> speaks about the removal of enmities which happened to one town (thiruvAyppAdi or gOkulam) and protection of cowherds.<\/p>\n Let us go through the pAsuram and its meanings:<\/p>\n kOvalanAy AniraigaL mEyththuk kuzhal Udhi<\/em> kOvalan Ay \u2013 being born as a cowherd kOvalanAy AniraigaL mEyththuk kuzhal Udhi<\/strong> \u2013 born in the clan of cowherds in order to make himself appropriate for herding cows, he grazed the cows by playing on the flute. Just as a brAhmaNa recites vEdham (sacred text), he grazed the cows, which is appropriate for one born in the clan of cowherds and played on the flute. He carried out acts which are apt for the clan.<\/p>\n mA valanAyk kINda<\/strong> \u2013 even when he had not attained the apt age, he tore the mouth of a demon kESi who had come in the form of a horse. Instead of stepping back on seeing the demon who came in the form of a horse, he stood face to face, with dexterity, and tore his mouth.<\/p>\n mA valanAyk kINda<\/strong> \u2013 he disproved the thinking of kESi who thought after looking at the softness of kaNNan (krishNa) that he [kaNNan] was incapable of killing him [kESi].<\/p>\n maNivaNNan<\/strong> \u2013 because he destroyed the enemy, his form became such that it removed the fatigue of the beholder. AzhwAr<\/a> celebrates the beautiful form of emperumAn<\/a> which he had when he decimated kESi by referring to him as maNivaNNan<\/em>.<\/p>\n mEvi ari uruvamAgi<\/strong> \u2013 fitting well with the form of narasimha. In other words, while the combination of lion and human would be something which cannot gel well and be incongruent, that form was so homogeneous that the two forms merged well. Just as adding candy to well boiled milk would enhance sweetness, the form of narasimha was also very appropriate. Alternatively iraNiyadhu Agam mEvi<\/em> could be considered as approaching iraNiyan.<\/p>\n iraNiyadhu Agam ugirAL kINdAn sinam<\/strong> \u2013 he tore the tough physical form of iraNiyan with his finger nails.<\/p>\n sinam theri<\/strong> \u2013 AzhwAr<\/a> tells his heart to think of emperumAn<\/a>\u2019s anger and determine that what we need is not his grace but the anger that he has on the enemies of his followers and think of that anger. Alternatively, theri ugir<\/em> could be construed as broad nail.<\/p>\n We will take up the 43rd<\/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 In the same breath as when he spoke of emperumAn keeping all the worlds under his divine feet, AzhwAr speaks about the removal of enmities which happened to one town (thiruvAyppAdi or gOkulam) and protection of cowherds. Let us go … 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":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iyarpa","category-munram-thiruvandhadhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20162","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=20162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/narasimha-hiranyakasipu-vadham.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\navathArikai<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n mAvalanAyk kINda maNivaNNan mEvi<\/em>
\n ariyuruvamAgi iraNiyadhu Agam<\/em>
\n theriyugirAl kINdAn sinam<\/em><\/p>\nWord by Word Meanings<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nAniraigal \u2013 herds of cows
\nmEyththu \u2013 grazing them (by taking them to places which have grass and water)
\nkuzhal Udhi \u2013 playing the flute (to bring the cows together)
\nmA \u2013 the demon kESi who came in the form of a horse
\nvalan Ay kINda \u2013 one who tore it capably
\nmaNi vaNNan \u2013 one who has the form of a blue coloured gem
\nmEvi ari uruvam Agi \u2013 appropriately taking the form of narasimha (combination of lion face and human body)
\niraNiyadhu Agam \u2013 the chest of demon iraNiyan (hiraNya kashyap)
\nugirAl \u2013 with his finger nails
\nkINda \u2013 emperumAn<\/a> who tore
\nsinam \u2013 anger
\ntheri \u2013 (Oh heart) know it.<\/p>\nvyAkyanam<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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