<< Previous<\/a><\/p>\n emperumAn<\/a> tells AzhwAr<\/a> \u201cOh AzhwIr! I am not aware of all these matters which you are saying\u201d to which AzhwAr responds saying \u201cOh emperumAn! Then, who else carried out all these activities!\u201d.<\/p>\n Let us go through the pAsuram and its meanings:<\/p>\n nIyanRE nIrERRu ulagam adi aLandhAy<\/em> nIr ERRu \u2013 accepting water as symbolic of alms (from mahAbali) nIyanRE nIr Erru ulagam adi aLandhAy<\/strong> \u2013 was it not you who went as a mendicant to mahAbali to take as alms the worlds which are your possessions, stretched out your hand to accept water that he poured, and measured the worlds with your divine feet! Did I carry out this task? Or did indhra carry out this?<\/p>\n nIyanRE ninRu nirai mEyththAy<\/strong> \u2013 was it not you who incarnated as krishNa [in the clan of cowherds] and followed the cows with a stick in hand in order to graze them! Did I carry out this activity or did someone else do this?<\/p>\n nIyanRE mAvAy uram piLandhu<\/strong> \u2013 was it not you who tore the mouth of kESi, the demon, who came in the form of a horse! (mA vAy uram piLandhu<\/em> \u2013 he tore the mouth of kESi such that the strength of the mouth was demolished) That he carried out that task effortlessly when he went to graze the cows is mentioned here.<\/p>\n mAmarudhin Udu pOy<\/strong> \u2013 when two demons, yamaLa and arjuna, stood in the form of two huge arjuna trees, you crawled in between the two trees and uprooted them, thus escaping from that danger too.<\/p>\n dhEvAsuram porudhAy seRRu<\/strong> \u2013 was it only the insentient entities that you destroyed? Did you not destroy the sentient enemies too? When a war broke out between the celestial and demonic entities, was it not you who engaged in the battle, destroying the demons? But then, is it not mentioned that it was only Siva who burnt the three towns? It does not appear that way to AzhwAr<\/a>. Just as it is mentioned in mahAbhAratham karNa parvam 29 \u201cvishNurAthmA bhagavatha: bhavasyAmitha thasmAth thanurjyAsamsarkkam sa vishEhE mahESvara:<\/em>\u201d ((during the time of burning the three towns) vishNu remained as antharAthmA <\/em>(the indwelling soul) of Siva, who has unlimited radiance and is venerable. It is because of this that Siva had the capability to draw the bow), since emperumAn<\/a> is the antharyAmi<\/a> (indwelling soul) of all entities, it was emperumAn who carried out this task too, says AzhwAr<\/a>.<\/p>\n We will take up the 49th<\/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 emperumAn tells AzhwAr \u201cOh AzhwIr! I am not aware of all these matters which you are saying\u201d to which AzhwAr responds saying \u201cOh emperumAn! Then, who else carried out all these activities!\u201d. Let us go through the pAsuram and its … 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-20227","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\/20227","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=20227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/krishna-cattle.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\navathArikai<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n nIyanRE ninRu nirai mEyththAy niyanRE<\/em>
\n mAvAyuram piLandhu mAmarudhinUdu pOyth<\/em>
\n thEvAsuram porudhAy seRRu<\/em><\/p>\nWord by Word Meanings<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nulagam \u2013 all the worlds
\nadi aLandhAy nI anRE \u2013 was it not you who measured with your divine feet?
\nninRu \u2013 being focussed on protection
\nnirai \u2013 herds of cows
\nmEyththAy nI anRE \u2013 was it not you who grazed them?
\nmA \u2013 the demon kESi who came in the form of a horse
\nvAy uram \u2013 the strength of his mouth
\npiLandhu \u2013 destroying it
\nmA marudhin Udu pOy \u2013 going between the twin arjuna trees and uprooting them
\ndhEvAsuram \u2013 in the war between celestial and demonic entities
\nseRRu \u2013 destroying (the\u00a0 demons)
\nporudhAy nI anRE \u2013 was it not you who waged the war!<\/p>\nvyAkyanam<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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