{"id":60955,"date":"2026-06-26T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T00:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/?p=60955"},"modified":"2026-06-26T00:01:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T00:01:50","slug":"periyazhwar-thirumozhi-3-10-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/periyazhwar-thirumozhi-3-10-5\/","title":{"rendered":"periyAzhwAr thirumozhi \u2013 3.10.5 \u2013 mAnamarum mennOkki"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">SrI: SrImathE SatakOpAya nama: SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama: Sri varavaramunayE nama:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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\/2026\/03\/periyazhwar-thirumozhi-3\/\">Third Centum<\/a> &gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/periyazhwar-thirumozhi-3-10\/\">Tenth decad<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/periyazhwar-thirumozhi-2-4\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/periyazhwar-thirumozhi-3-10-4\/\">Previous<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>avathArikai<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no separate avathArikai for this pAsuram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>mAnamarum\u00a0 mennOkki<\/em> <em>vaidhEvI<\/em>!<em> viNNappam<\/em><br><em>kAnamarum kalladhar pOy kAduRaindha kAlaththu<\/em><br><em>thEnamarum pozhil sAral chiththirakkUdaththu iruppap<\/em><br><em>pAl mozhiyAy<\/em>!<em> baradha nambi paNindhadhum Or adiyALam<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Word-by-Word Meanings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>mAn amarum<\/em> \u2013 like a doe<br><em>mel<\/em> \u2013 soft<br><em>nOkki<\/em> \u2013 having a vision<br><em>vaidhEvI<\/em> \u2013 as the daughter of vidhEha rAjA<br><em>pAl<\/em> \u2013 enjoyable like milk<br><em>mozhiyAy<\/em> \u2013 oh, one who has sweet words!<br><em>viNNappam<\/em> \u2013 mercifully listen<br><em>kAn amarum<\/em> \u2013 being seen in a dense manner inside forest<br><em>kal adhar<\/em> \u2013 in the path filled with stones<br><em>pOy<\/em> \u2013 mercifully going<br><em>kAdu uRaindha kAlaththu <\/em>\u2013 during the time of living in the forest<br><em>thEn amarum<\/em> \u2013 filled with honey<br><em>pozhil<\/em> \u2013 together with gardens<br><em>sAral<\/em> \u2013 having slopes<br><em>chiththira kUdaththu<\/em> \u2013 on the mountains of chithrakUtam<br><em>iruppa<\/em> \u2013 when mercifully residing<br><em>nambi<\/em> \u2013 one, who is complete with the quality of being totally dependent<br><em>baradhan<\/em> \u2013 bharathAzhwAn<br><em>paNindhadhum<\/em> \u2013 his action of surrendering saying \u201cYou should mercifully return\u201d is another identification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Simple Translation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, one who has the soft vision of a doe, who is the daughter of vidhEha rAjA, who has sweet words which are enjoyable like milk! Mercifully listen to my words. When your highness had mercifully gone to the forest which is full of densely packed stones in all the paths, and were living in the chithrakUtam mountain, which has gardens full of honey and slopes, bharathAzhwAn, who is complete with the quality of being totally dependent on SrI rAma, came there and surrendered to him, telling him \u201cYou should mercifully return to ayOdhyA\u201d. This is another identification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>vyAkhyAnam (Commentary)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>mAn amarum<\/strong> \u2013 Oh, one who is like a doe, with the quality of soft vision! Oh, one who is the daughter of the king of vidhEha! Through this, just as it has been mentioned in SrI rAmAyaNam sundhara kANdam 15.24 \u201c<em>priyajjanam apaSyanthIm paSyanthIm rAkshasIgaNam | svagaNEna mrugIm hInAm SvagaNairAvruthAmiva<\/em> ||\u201d (not seeing her desired people, seeing only the women demons, like a doe which has been given up by its clan and is surrounded by a pack of dogs), sIthAp pirAtti felt bewildered amidst the gathering of women demons, not being able to see the people whom she desired. She looked like a doe, which has been given up by its clan and has been surrounded by a pack of dogs. This verse also tells about her predicament of being harmed by their looks and actions, making her to contemplate ending her life through her locks, not desiring her form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">thiruvAimozhip piLLai, in his svApadhESam, says that those, who are seen by her, will think that the simile [of the doe\u2019s eyes] is too inferior and that they will forget about the doe\u2019s eyes and keep looking at her; such was the beauty of her eyes. The term <em>vaidhEhi<\/em> refers to the quality of not bothering about the splendour of her divine form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>viNNappam<\/strong> \u2013 hanuman prays to her to listen mercifully to his words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>kAn amarum \u2026<\/strong> &#8211; during the time when they had gone to the forest, which was dense with stones strewn all over the path, without considering the tenderness of the divine feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>thEn amarum \u2026<\/strong> &#8211; in the mountainous region of chithrakUtam, surrounded by orchards where beetles settle down without any break, and which has slopes of the mountains. SrI rAma had mercifully taken the hermitage, put up by lakshmaNa, as his dwelling place, with his locks matted and wearing barks as his dress, as mentioned in SrI rAmAyaNam ayOdhyA kANdam 99.25 \u201c<em>utajE rAmam AsInam jatAmaNdala dhArinam krishNAjinadharam thanthu chIravalkala vAsasam<\/em>\u201d (SrI rAma, having matted hair, wearing cloth made of deer skin, was sitting in the hermitage).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">thiruvAimozhip piLLai says here that it was the time when SrI rAma and sIthAp pirAtti were enjoying the mountainous region, in privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>pAl mozhiyAy<\/strong> \u2013 Oh, one who speaks with words which are sweet, like milk! hanuman addresses her in this manner based on the sweetness of the words which she had spoken to him earlier and his desire to listen to her words further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>baradha nambi paNindhadhum Or adiyALam<\/strong> \u2013 SrI bharathAzhwAn, who is complete with the quality of <em>pArathanthryam<\/em> [being totally dependent on SrI rAma], surrendered to the divine feet of SrI rAna, beseeching him \u201cYou should mercifully return to ayOdhyA\u201d. This is another identification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We shall next consider the 6<sup>th<\/sup> pAsuram of this thirumozhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">adiyEn krishNa rAmAnuja dhAsan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">archived in <a href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\">https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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;Third Centum &gt;&gt; Tenth decad Previous avathArikai There is no separate avathArikai for this pAsuram. mAnamarum\u00a0 mennOkki vaidhEvI! viNNappamkAnamarum kalladhar pOy kAduRaindha kAlaththuthEnamarum pozhil sAral chiththirakkUdaththu iruppappAl mozhiyAy! baradha nambi paNindhadhum Or adiyALam Word-by-Word Meanings mAn amarum \u2013 like a doemel \u2013 softnOkki \u2013 &#8230; <a title=\"periyAzhwAr thirumozhi \u2013 3.10.5 \u2013 mAnamarum mennOkki\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/periyazhwar-thirumozhi-3-10-5\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about periyAzhwAr thirumozhi \u2013 3.10.5 \u2013 mAnamarum mennOkki\">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":[10,717,724],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mudhalayiram","category-periyazhwar-thirumozhi","category-periyazhwar-thirumozhi-3rd-centum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60955","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=60955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61084,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60955\/revisions\/61084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divyaprabandham.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}