{"id":55884,"date":"2025-06-15T23:36:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T23:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/?p=55884"},"modified":"2025-06-15T23:36:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T23:36:44","slug":"periyazhwar-thirumozhi-1-1-3-penich-chirudai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2025\/06\/periyazhwar-thirumozhi-1-1-3-penich-chirudai\/","title":{"rendered":"periyAzhwAr thirumozhi \u2013 1.1.3 &#8211; pENich chIrudai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: Sri varavaramunayE nama:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2025\/06\/periyazhwar-thirumozhi\/\">periyAzhwAr thirumozhi<\/a>&nbsp;&gt;&gt;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2025\/06\/periyazhwar-thirumozhi-1\/\">First Centum<\/a>&nbsp;&gt;&gt;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2025\/06\/periyazhwar-thirumozhi-1.1\/\">First Decad<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2025\/06\/periyazhwar-thirumozhi-1-1-2\/\">Previous<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>avathArikai (Introduction)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no specific avathArikai for this pAsuram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>pENich chIrudaip piLLai piRandhinil<\/em><br><em>kAnaththAm puguvAr pukkup pOdhuvAr<\/em><br><em>ANoppAr ivan nErillai kAN thiru<\/em><br><em>ONaththAn ulagALum enbArgaLE<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Word-by-Word Meanings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>sIrudai<\/em> \u2013 having auspicious qualities<br><em>piLLai<\/em> \u2013 krishNa, the infant<br><em>pENi<\/em> \u2013 protecting himself from monsters such as kamsan et al<br><em>piRandhinil<\/em> \u2013 at the time when he was born<br><em>thAm<\/em> \u2013 the herd-folk in thiruvAyppAdi<br><em>kANa<\/em> \u2013 to see (the infant krishNa)<br><em>puguvAr<\/em> \u2013 those who enter [the house of SrI nandhagOpar]<br><em>pukku<\/em> \u2013 after seeing him inside<br><em>pOdhuvAr<\/em> \u2013 those who leave<br><em>ANoppAr<\/em> \u2013 among those who have masculine features<br><em>ivan nErillai kAN<\/em> \u2013 there is none matching him [krishNa]<br><em>thiruvONaththAn<\/em> \u2013 sarvESvaran\u2019s (lord of all, his)<br><em>ulagALum<\/em> \u2013 rule all the worlds<br><em>enbArgaLE<\/em> \u2013 people would say<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Simple Translation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>krishNa was born with auspicious qualities, protecting himself from monsters such as kamsan et al. People in SrI gOkulam, desirous of seeing him, would enter the house of SrI nandhagOpar and those who had already entered and seen him, would exit, speaking among themselves \u201cAmong those who have masculine features, there is who is equivalent to him. He would rule all the worlds of sarvESvaran\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>vyAkhyAnam (Commentary)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>pENich chIrudai piLLai piRandhinil<\/strong> \u2013 should be rearranged as <em>sIr udaiya piLLai pENip piRandhinil<\/em> \u2013 during the time of his incarnation, since he listened to his parents and carried out their wish, he has auspicious qualities. <em>sIr<\/em> \u2013 quality [auspicious]. What did the parents say and what did he do? He was born with the divine form of emperumAn, having the divine weapons, with lotus-like eyes, lotus-like feet etc. vasudhEvar and dhEvaki, looking at his divine form at the time of his birth, became scared, thinking of kamsan. vasudhEvar told him as in SrI vishNu purANam 5-9-13 \u201c<em>upasamhara<\/em>\u201d (hide all the divine forms); immediately, krishNa hid his divine form. Thus, even at the time of his birth, he exhibited the auspicious quality of listening to his parents. He hid himself from the eyes of unfavourable entities such as kamsan et al, and incarnated in SrI gOkulam. AzhwAr considers that krishNa was born, only after he reached SrI gOkulam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>kANaththAm puguvAr<\/strong> \u2013 Desirous of seeing infant krishNa, the people in SrI gOkulam would enter SrI nandhagOpar\u2019s mansion. Even though some of them would also have got infants born in their respective home around the same time, even they would come to nandhagOpar\u2019s house to see infant krishNa, more than seeing their own children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>pukkup pOdhuvAr<\/strong> \u2013 after entering and seeing krishNa, they will leave the mansion, leaving their eyes and hearts behind, with infant krishNa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the reason for this greatness?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ANoppAr \u2026.<\/strong> \u2013 those who are conversant with all the qualities of masculinity, after seeing him, would say \u201cAmong those who have masculine qualities, there is none who would equal him\u201d. Some others would say \u201cLooking at his features, we could say that he would rule all the worlds of the supreme entity who has the star thiruvONam [SravaNam]\u201d They were talking in this manner, due to overflowing affection upon seeing infant krishNa. If the text were <em>ANoppAn ivan nErillai<\/em> [instead of <em>ANoppAr<\/em>\u2026..], <em>ANoppu<\/em> would refer to features of a male. <em>oppAn<\/em> could be transformed as <em>oppAl<\/em> which would mean \u201cIn the features of a male\u201d. Thus, the new meaning of the verse <em>ANoppAn ivan nErillai <\/em>would be that in the features of a male, there is none who is equal to him<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This group of people could be added to the group of people seen in the previous pAsuram and these people would celebrate along with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We shall next consider the 4<sup>th<\/sup> pAsuram of this thirumozhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>adiyEn krishNa rAmAnuja dhAsan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>archived in <a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\">https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>pramEyam (goal) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/koyil.org\/\">http:\/\/koyil.org<\/a><br>pramANam (scriptures) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/granthams.koyil.org\">http:\/\/granthams.koyil.org<\/a><br>pramAthA (preceptors) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\">http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org<\/a><br>SrIvaishNava education\/kids portal \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/\">http:\/\/pillai.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: Sri varavaramunayE nama: periyAzhwAr thirumozhi&nbsp;&gt;&gt;&nbsp;First Centum&nbsp;&gt;&gt;&nbsp;First Decad Previous avathArikai (Introduction) There is no specific avathArikai for this pAsuram. pENich chIrudaip piLLai piRandhinilkAnaththAm puguvAr pukkup pOdhuvArANoppAr ivan nErillai kAN thiruONaththAn ulagALum enbArgaLE Word-by-Word Meanings sIrudai \u2013 having auspicious qualitiespiLLai \u2013 krishNa, the infantpENi \u2013 protecting himself from monsters such &#8230; <a title=\"periyAzhwAr thirumozhi \u2013 1.1.3 &#8211; pENich chIrudai\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2025\/06\/periyazhwar-thirumozhi-1-1-3-penich-chirudai\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about periyAzhwAr thirumozhi \u2013 1.1.3 &#8211; pENich chIrudai\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,717,718],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mudhalayiram","category-periyazhwar-thirumozhi","category-periyazhwar-thirumozhi-1st-centum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55884","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=55884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55919,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55884\/revisions\/55919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}