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Full Series<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n << Previous<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n avathArikai (Introduction)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This thaniyan, composed by maNakkAl nambi (AchAryan of ALavandhAr), manifests his bias towards SrI vaishNavas<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aram kedap parananbar koLLArenRu avargaLukkE<\/em> Word-by-word Meaning<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Aram keda<\/em>– since the ruby necklace went missing (due to the conspiracy of ministers) Simple Translation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n kulaSEkhara AzhwAr vowed to his ministers that SrI vaishNavas will not desire others’ possessions when they blamed the SrI vaishNavas for stealing a ruby necklace. To prove his confidence in them, he thrust his hand inside a pot containing a poisonous snake. He destroyed the valour of his enemies; he ruled over the town of kolli with a sceptre in his hand. He was a king among kings, being a jewel on their crowns. He was the ruby for the clan of chEra kings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n vyAkyAnam (Commentary)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Aram keda<\/strong> \u2013 The ministers in kulaSEkharar\u2019s council thought that the affection which kulaSEkharar had towards SrI vaishNavas was hindering his regal duties as a king. Hence, they decided to put an end to his affection towards SrI vaishNavas. They hid a ruby necklace of emperumAn\u2019s and shifted the blame on SrI vaishNavas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hearing this \u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n paran anbar koLLAr enRu<\/strong> \u2013 kulaSEkharar made a vow that SrI vaishNavas, who are deeply devoted to paravasthu<\/em> (supreme entity, SrIman nArAyaNa) will not covet para vasthu<\/em> (material, belonging to others). Only those who are not devoted to emperumAn will act similar to kaNNinuN siRuththAmbu pAsuram 5 \u201cnambinEn piRar nanporuL thannaiyum<\/em>\u201d (I will covet AthmA, which belongs to emperumAn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Due to this \u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n avargaLukkE vAram kodu kudappAmbil kai ittavan<\/strong> \u2013 Not only did kulaSEkharar vow that SrI vaishNavas will not steal others\u2019 belongings. He exhibited his bias towards them by putting his hand against the hood of a snake which was kept inside a pot, in line with the saying of nammAzhwAr as in periya thiruvandhAdhi pAsuram 14 \u201cpAmbAr vAy kai neettal pArththi<\/em>\u201d (you are trying to put out your hand into the mouth of a snake (here, samsAram is referred to by the term snake)). The opinion here is that he undertook a frightening vow of putting his hand inside the mouth of a snake since he was of the firm belief that SrI vaishNavas will not at all steal anyone\u2019s possession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Was the person who carried out such an act, an ordinary, lowly person? No, he was an emperor who would disarm the valour of enemies \u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n mARRalarai vIram keduththa<\/strong> \u2013 one who made the valour of enemies as useless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How did he achieve this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n sengO<\/strong>l – Through his sceptre, with which he was ruling over his enemies too. Did not nammAzhwAr mercifully state in thiruviruththam 33 \u201ciruLAr vinai kedach chengOl nadAvudhIr<\/em>\u201d (emperumAn rules over both spiritual realm and materialistic realm through his sceptre)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n kolli kAvalan<\/strong> \u2013 Just as nammAzhwAr is referred to as kurugaik kAvalan (ruler of kurugUr), kulaSEkharar is referred to as kolli kAvalan, ruler of chEranAdu (land of chEras), whose capital is kolli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n villavar kOn<\/strong> – we can construe this as \u2013 the king of those who are ruling other countries with their bows. Alternatively, since bow is the symbol for chEra kings, we can consider this term to refer to the king of chEras. kulaSEkharar himself had referred to the fact that he is the king of all three lands, chEra, chOzha and pANdiya, through his verse in perumAL thirumozhi 2-10 \u201ckolli kAvalan kUdal nAyagan kOzhikkOn kulaSEkharan<\/em>\u201d \u2013 kolli refers to the capital city of chEras, kUdal refers to madhurai, the capital city of pANdiyas and kOzhi refers to uRaiyUr, the capital city of chOzhas. Hence, we can say that he is the head of all three lands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n sEran kulaSEkharan <\/strong>\u2013 though he is the head of all three lands, here he is referred to as the head of kings of chEras. kulaSEkharan is his divine name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since he is the most powerful king among all the kings, he is referred to as<\/p>\n\n\n\n mudivEndhar sigAmaNi<\/strong> \u2013 just as it has been said in periya thirumozhi 5-8-9 \u201cthuLangu nINmudi arasar<\/em>\u201d (king with a splendorous long crown), since all the kings who wear long crowns on their heads bow down their heads at the divine feet of kulaSEkhara AzhwAr, he is referred to as mudivEndhar sigAmaNi<\/em>. kulaSEkharar himself had mercifully stated in perumAL thirumozhi 7-11 \u201cmAladi mudimEl kOlamAm kulaSEkharan<\/em>\u201d (kulaSEkharan who is bowing down his head at the divine feet of SrIman nArAyaNa). Just as his crown was decorating the divine feet of emperumAn, the crowns of all the other kings were decorating his divine feet. periya thirumozhi 9-5-4 says \u201cperumaNi vAnavar uchchi vaiththa pEraruLALan<\/em>\u201d \u2013 emperumAn is the jewel for other celestial entities. Similarly, kulaSEkharar is the jewel on the crowns of other kings. \u201cISvarANAm SrImath kirIta thata bIditha pAdha pItam<\/em>\u201d \u2013 emperumAn has great divine feet which are bowed down to by the crowns of all the other celestial deities. In the same way is the greatness of this AzhwAr who is referred to as perumAL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n mudivEndhar sigAmaNiyE<\/strong> \u2013 we can construe this to say that his greatness is immeasurable, since he is like the jewel decorating the crowns of all the kings and is nonpareil. Alternatively, we can say that it is indeed wondrous that such kulaSEkhara AzhwAr, who is matchless, put his hand inside the pot containing poisonous snake, for the sake of followers of emperumAn. He had mercifully said in his perumAL thirumozhi 2-10 \u201carangan meyyadiyArgaL tham ellaiyil adimaith thiRaththinil enRu mEvu manaththananAm \u2026. kulaSEkharan<\/em>\u201d (kulaSEkharan is always at the boundary of servitude, of carrying out service to the divine followers of SrI ranganAthan). We can say that in this thaniyan, he has manifested his bhaktha pArathanthriyam<\/em> (being totally subservient to the followers of emperumAn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the next article, we will discuss the pravESam<\/em> (introduction) for the first decad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n adiyEn krishNa rAmAnuja dhAsan<\/p>\n\n\n\n archived in https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n pramEyam (goal) \u2013 https:\/\/koyil.org<\/a> SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: SrImadh varavara munayE nama: Full Series << Previous avathArikai (Introduction) This thaniyan, composed by maNakkAl nambi (AchAryan of ALavandhAr), manifests his bias towards SrI vaishNavas Aram kedap parananbar koLLArenRu avargaLukkEvArangodu kudappAmbil kaiyittavan mARRalaraivIrangeduththa sengOl kolli kAvalan villavar kOnsEran kulaSEkharan mudivEndhar sigAmaNiyE Word-by-word Meaning Aram keda– since the ruby … 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":[10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mudhalayiram","category-perumal-thirumozhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50168","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=50168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
vArangodu kudappAmbil kaiyittavan mARRalarai<\/em>
vIrangeduththa sengOl kolli kAvalan villavar kOn<\/em>
sEran kulaSEkharan mudivEndhar sigAmaNiyE<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
paran anbar koLLAr enRu<\/em> \u2013 telling them that SrI vaishNavas will not touch others\u2019 possession
avargaLukkE<\/em> \u2013 in the matter of SrI vaishNavas (who were charged with the theft)
vAram kodu<\/em> \u2013 showing bias
kudap pAmbil kai ittavan<\/em> \u2013 one who thrust his hand inside a pot, containing a poisonous snake
mARRalarai<\/em> \u2013 enemies\u2019
vIram keduththa<\/em> \u2013 one who destroyed their valour
sengOl<\/em> \u2013 one who has the sceptre
kolli kAvalan<\/em> \u2013 being the controller of the city of kolli
villavar kOn<\/em> \u2013 being the leader of other kings
mudi vEndhar<\/em> \u2013 for the kings who were crowned
sigAmaNiyE<\/em>– one who is like a jewel in their crowns
sEran kulaSEkharan<\/em> \u2013 it is kulaSEkhara AzhwAr, who is like a ruby for the clan of chEra kings<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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