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Periyalwar
Period
: 9th C. AD
Place
: Sri Villiputhur
Month
: Aani
Star
(Natshatram) : Swathi (Swaathee)
Day
: Monday
Father:
Mukuntar
Mother:
Patumavalli
Other Names : Vishnu Sittar, Patta Naadan, Bhattar
Piraan, Sri Villiputthooraar, Sriranganaatha Svasoorar
His works : Periyalvar tirumoli
Songs : 473
Hamsam : Garuda (Chariot - Veheicle)
Before getting into periyazhwar charithram, let us
have a glance at the Great Villiputthoor charithram, where periyazhwar hailed
from. In "Then Pandya" kingdom, there is a small town called
putthoor, where great scholars pundits were residing. Nearby there is a forest
where there were hunters living in it. The chief of these hunters had two sons
named villi and kandan. One day these two guys villi and kandan went inside the
forest for hunting as usual. They spotted a tiger and it escaped the arrows
from their bows. Kandan started chasing vigorously and went deep inside the
forest. After some time, the tiger hid behind a tree and pounced on kandan and
killed him. Villi waited for kandan for a long Time and started searching for
him with a worried look on his face about his dearest brother. When he spotted
the dead body of kandan, his heart almost stooped with grief and cried heavily
and fell unconscious on his darling brother's body.
During his unconsciousness, he had a scene in
front of his eyes; Sri man Narayanan with His consort Vishnu pathni Mahalakshmi
appeared and uttered opening His "pavalachchevvai" thus:"O
villi, Do not lament and cry. Do not worry. We will get back your brother's
life. And you both go to find out the Big Banyan tree in the midst of this
forest where my moorthy has been lying for quite a
long time. You both will also find a cave nearby the tree where there is lots
and lots of Golden jewels and coins and treasure available. You can take them
as much as you wish. Using that wealth, you both need to deforest that place
and build a temple and surrounding town." Then the Lord disappeared.
When villi came back to consciousness, he did not
know whether what he saw (in his unconscious state) was true at all and was
confused.
But suddenly kandan got up alive as if he just
woke up from sleep (without any wound even). Villi explained the whole thing to
his darling brother and both of them hugged each other for having been blessed
by the Lord and having been chosen by the Lord to establish the temple for
Sriya: pathih. (I wish we too had been just hunters like villi and kandan,
rather than studying all sorts of degrees and leading a life which in no way
helps us reach towards the Lord.
Then they did exactly as was told and with great
enthusiasm built the temple with the co operation of all his people (who were
pleasantly surprised at the Lord' mercy on their kulam). The place became an
excellent sthalam and the temple looked majestic with Vadabhathrasayee as the
moorthy. The place even today is being referred as Villiputthoor (named after
the brother Villi).
Great scholars, Bhaktas, pundits migrated from
putthoor to this holy place and started residing in this place. One of them was
Mukunda Bhattar and he was a Vaishnava gnani and his wife was Padmavalli, a
gunavathi and a perfect match for Mukunda Bhattar. Both of them were parama
bhaktas of vadabhatrasayee. On an auspicious day they were blessed with a male
child and they named the child as vishnu chittar; means the one who thinks of
vishnu always in his mind.
The kid lived up to his name fully and always was
contemplating on ways and means to achieve the Lord's daya. He did not wish to
spend and waste his time on education (vedas and sasthras) and concentrated
only on praising the Lord. (poiginra Gnanamum polla ozhkkamum... ). He knew
that when Lord krishna appeared he had a liking for wearing Garlands made from
variety of flowers. He chose that kainkaryam to pluck flowers in the early
morning and make an excellent garland out of it to adorn the idol of Sri
vadabhatrasayee. He even sold some of his property and bought a small place
near his home (and the temple) and converted that into a beautiful Nandavanam
(a Garden). He grew all kinds of creepers and plants for various flowers and
the Holy Thulasi. The place also housed a small beautiful pond where there was
a clear crystal like water as pure as vishnuchittar' s heart and mind.
His time was wholly spent on cultivating this
garden only and beatify them in order to get more and more and flowers for the
Lord. (What a superb life! What a great Bhakti!) The flowers bloomed; Tulasi
plant became bigger and bigger; The entire Garden looked divinely beautiful and
had an exquisite sugandham (smell) due to jasmine, rose, lotus, parijatham,
alli, Thulasi, etc., etc.. Every morning, before the Sun rises vishnu chitthar
took bath completed his nityakarmanushtanan gal, went to his garden and plucked
all kinds of flowers to prepare garlands and garlands of various types for the
Lord, while he sang songs in praise of the Lord. He used to take them to the
temple and enjoy the scene of Lord wearing all his garlands. He got an immense
satisfaction and great amount of blissful happiness in that. He was also
blessed with a spouse who also had similar taste for performing service to the
Lord.
During those times (9 th century CE), there was a
king by name "vallabhadevan" ruling that area (Then madurai). He was
a good king and was ruling excellently; He was a great vishnu bhakta and wished
to know the meaning of vedas and the glory of the Supreme truth. He enquired
his chief minister on his desire and as to how to go about pursuing his
interests. The minister said " Let us bring vedic scholars and ask them
your questions and seek clarifications from them; Whoever furnishes good,
satisfactory reply and clarifies you can be greatly rewarded, O mighty
king.". The king agreed and the announcement was made throughout the
kingdom and it was also told that there will be a bag containing Golden coins
hanging at the top and with the power and truth of the vedic
statement/principle, it shall fall automatically. There were many scholars,
pundits, vedic virpannargal, arguments, discussions, seminars, parayanams, etc,
etc,; But the bag still was hanging! The true vedic underlying
principle/statement was known to anybody; The king was terrible disappointed.
The Lord now plays! Sriman narayanan, Sri Vadabhatra sayee appeared in
vishnuchittha' s dream and said" O bhakta, I am impressed with your
poomalai kainkaryam. Tomorrow you go the palace and speak vedic principles and
get the reward". Vishnuchitthar said" I am not at all well versed in
vedas; I did not even study them; I wasted(!) My time without learning all
these vedas; I have doing only a simple Garland preparation for you, Lord. I
cannot tell any vedic truths, since I do NOT know.". The Lord smiled; O
vishnuchitta, You are only an instrument. We will speak through you. Not to
worry; Just proceed. (enne bhagawan's vatsalyam to bring His bhakta to the
limelight!)
The Lord appeared in the Chief minister's dream
too and asked him to arrange to bring vishnuchittar the next day in the
palanquin with full honours(GREAT! ). The Next day vishnuchittar prayed the
Lord and boarded the pallakku (palanquin) and came to the palace with full
honours. The scholars laughed at his greed for they knew his limited (or no)
knowledge on vedas. They made sarcastic statements at him loudly. But once our
vishnuchittar started his explanation (after a small prayer) the murmurs
stopped; The sarcasm disappeared; People sharpened their ears.
The king, the ministers the people and the
scholars, everybody could follow the simple statements which were full of deep
meanings and were coming as if the waves were coming out of the great ocean;
The entire meaning of his statement was clearly understood by one and all and
when vishnuchitthar made a concluding statement that Sri maha vishnu, the
Sriya: pathih, is the only paramporul who is protecting and blessing the whole
Universe and all beings and is the
only underlying principle of all four vedas, the
bag FELL by itself! And fell into the hands of vishnuchitthar. The king got up
immediately with full of tears in his eyes and prostrated at the feet of
vishnuchitthar. He appreciated "I am now clear. You have clarified all my
doubts. Sriman narayanane paramporul. I have NEVER heard such deep meanings in
such simple explanation" . All scholars lowered their heads in utter shame
and removed their pride and celebrated vishnuchittahr' s victory. The king gave
away further more lots of prizes and addressed him "bhattarpiran" .
Vishnuchitthar said "O king, I am dumb. I never spoke. It is HE who spoke
here through me. He is the flutist. I am only a bamboo stick. I am only a
plant. He is the one who bloomed the flower. I am only a puppet. He is the
kartha and a puppetter. Please do not say anything to me. Please do not
prostrate at my feet. Let us all prostrate at HIS feet. Come." and he said
this deeply moved, hands shaking and shivering due to the Lord's mercy on his
lowly self.
The king made vishnuchitthar sit on the Royal
Elephant and arranged for a great procession in the streets of his kingdom.
Everywhere people thronged to see the blessed soul and everywhere people were
shouting "bhattarpiran vazhga! Bhattarpiran vazhga!". Vishnuchitthar
was all the time crying with Anandha kanneer and was having his palms glued
together with his mind fully thinking of him and His mercy. When all these
festivities were going on, Do you think our Lord will lie down in parkadal. No!
He has also wished to see this great scene and enjoy His bhaktha being admired
and appreciated. He along with mahalakshmi appeared on garuda in the sky and
the whole lot of crowd, the king the ministers, the jealous scholars everybody
saw him and his consort on garuda! (What a blessed place and blessed people.
Were we not even insects in that place during that time?). Seeing the Lord
vishnuchitthar was ecstatic and using the bells which the elephant was wearing
he made THALAMS and sang
"pallaandu, pallaandu pallayiratthandu
palakodi noorayiram"
(Long live
for many years, Long live for many years for Hundreds of thousands of years!)
He is giving asirvadhams to the Lord! For living
eternally and forever!. That is why he is called periya azhwar - The eldest
azhwar because he greeted the Lord himself!
After being conferred "Bhattar piran",
periyazhwar continued on his malai kainkaryam, while he enjoyed singing
pasurams on kannan. He sang as if he became His mother, yasodha. He bathed him,
fed Him, dressed Him; played with him; and enjoyed and imagined all thollai
inbam which yasodha had undergone.
The Child's azhaghu, mischiefs, leelas, were all
sung by periyazhwar. All his pasurams are to be read, re-read and enjoyed. All
were bhakti laden pasurams and taste like Grape fruit soaked in honey.
One such day (on Adi pooram day) when he was
plucking flowers and thulasi leaves in his beautiful nandhavanam, he heard a
faint cry of a baby, which appeared as an incarnation of bhoomadevi. He was
pleasantly surprised to find a little bundle of joy with beautiful pretty limbs
and a divine golden face with great amount of tejas, he immediately picked up
the female child with both the arms lovingly and showered her with lots of
kisses. When they hugged the child they felt as if it is Lord bala krishnan
himself whom they were holding; They were getting tremendous amount of joy by
bringing up this blessed pretty girl, whom they named "kodhai".
Kodhai with their love, affection, and bhakti
laden pasurams and Bhagavadh kankaryam grew up with a GREAT amount of Bhakti
for kannan (not surprisingly, since, kannan was also brought up by periyazhwar
in the same house through his pasurams). Kodhai grew up with "kollai
azhaghu", and with lots of intellect and gnanam on bhagavadh vishayangal.
She also developed a great amount of affinity to kannan while she helped her
father in his kainkaryam. She also used to
pluck flowers and prepare garlands along with her
father. Her talks and thoughts were always on kannan. With the garlands, she
used to accompany her father to vadapathrasayee temple to have His darshan.
Years rolled by and kodhai grew up like a
beautiful mullai creeper(kodi); Along with that, her bhakti for kannan too
exponentially grew up and she longed to see him and be blessed by him. Her love
fir the Lord was so much that she even wished to marry him. She took a vow to
marry him only and could not think of getting married to any other person. She
even dreamt of him coming to her like a male elephant adorned with pattu and
peethambharam for the Great marriage
with kodhai. She spent her time always with such
dreams of senkan thirumal holding her hands and "agni valam".
Periyazhwar seeing all this got worried as to how he could make his darling
daughter accomplish her wish (when it is not just impossible for anyone to
marry the Lord).
Once, periyazhwar as usual prepared garlands of
flowers and thulasis and kept them in a safe, clean place and came out. Kodhai,
seeing such beautiful garlands, thought for a while, "If I am going to
marry only him, why should I not wear these garlands before He does?" and
she did wear them. ( What an apacharam for an ordinary person! But our
kuzhandhai is sakshat bhoomadevi and is there anything wrong in wearing His
garlands?) She saw herself wearing the garlands one by one and admired her beauty
by looking at the mirror. When she heard some footsteps, she immediately
removed them and placed them as usual. When periyazhwar adorned the Lord with
those garlands, that day the Lord looked exquisitely beautiful and there was
even a smile on his lips. The garlands were spreading an excellent sughandham
throughout the temple and everyone was talking about the speciality of garlands
that day. Periyazhwar did not know why on that day it was so different and
special when there was nothing extraordinary he did on that day. It was same
flowers; same thulasi and same way of preparations. Why then all this good
smell and beauty? He did not know.
This continued every day. Kodhai wore them
secretly and saw herself; Lord enjoyed wearing them with great amount of happiness
and satisfaction with good smell. No one knew why. One day on a krishna
jayanthi day, periyazhwar saw kodhai wearing the garland and he got terribly
angry and depressed; felt very much sad and hurt and with lots of sorrow and
"vedhanai" asked her" kodhaiye, my child, why did you do such a
maha papam? Is it not meant for the Lord, Sriman narayanan? How can you
impurify by your wearing them, my child?". Kodhai replied with regret and
justification" father" When there is Sriman narayanan is in my heart
I wished to see him wearing them; Will the Lord get angry by a bhaktha wearing
it?".
She was welled with tears with the feeling of
guilt and periyazhwar' s heart melted seeing his darling child crying. He
lightly hugged her and consoled her saying "Not that, kodhai, This is
meant for the God our Lord, Will it not become impure by our wearing it,
kanmani.. Okay. Do not worry.. Do not do this again.
Today I will make another garland. Let it become
waste. Don't cry." He made another set of garland and adorned the Lord and
that day there was no smell; no beauty and no brightness on His face; nor there
was any smile on His lips, too. The bhattars (archakas) were also confused.
Periyazhwar felt sad that he became angry with his
sweet child that day for the first time and the Lord also did not look well
with the second set of garlands. He had a restless sleep and just before dawn,
Govindhan appeared in his dream. He opened His red beautiful coral lips and
said" My dearest vishnuchittare! Periyazhware! , bhattarpiran! , For
singing paamaalai(pasurams) and wearing my poomaalai(garlands) only, kodhai
appeared as your daughter and that
is what I love to wear, too. She has ruled over me
with her paamaalai and poomaalai and hence, shall be called "anndal"
hereafter. Do not try to stop her from wearing the garlands. She should
continue wearing them." periyazhwar woke up and realised kodhai's perumai
and greatness. He became excited greatly thrilled to know that she is the one
who ruled the Lord and called her " andal!". He explained everything
to her and andal's face became red with "shyness and blushed. She became widely known as
"Soodikkoduttha sudar kodi".
Andal wrote tiruppavai (30 verses) as a nonbu to
perform prapatti to the Lord and seek refuge at His Lotus feet. There were
great seers
who came later appreciated the depths of this
philosophical composition of andal. When periyazhwar brought marriage
discussion to kodhai, she mentioned only Govindhan's name as Her groom.
Periyazhwar knew well of her intentions, since he himself was the culprit for
his bringing her up only with kannan's thinking at all times. He also knew that
Sri aranganathan was her heartthrob who stole her heart. He was rightfully
worried as to how it is possible to get her married to the Almighty. His worry
and burden increased day by day as much as Sri andal's love for the Lord
increased.
The Lord appeared in periyazhwar' s dream and
asked him to come to Sri Rangam the next day. He also appeared in the king
Pandyan vallabhan's dream and asked him to arrange to bring andal and
periyazhwar to Sri Rangam with full honours. Next day the King along with his
parivarangal, Sri rangam koil archakas, the chief officers, ministers, all
people of Sri villiputthoor, thronged at periyazhwar' s house. Palanquin
umbrella , kavari, temple elephant and Royal elephant were all brought to bring
the blessed great father and the daughter. The ladies beautified the already
beautiful looking andal with pattu, ponnagai, mani, etc.,.
Periyazhwar and vallabhan brought kodhai slowly
lovingly and affectionately to the palanquin. Sri andal boarded and sat down in
the palanquin, simplifying "penmayin ilakkanam". Throughout the way
there were arches of flowers and decorations and festive looks. People thronged
to see the blessed Beauty of Villiputthoor. (How nice it would have been,
sister and brothers.- How great our Sri andal would have looked in such an
attire with the pretty face getting prettier with "nanam".) They
reached Sri Rangam and the temple. They were guided straight to the Sanctum
sanctorum, the sannidhi of Thiruvarangan. Our kodhai stepped into the inner
court, looked at him and His face and immediately merged and united with the
Lord as a JOTHI (a light).
PeriyAzhwAr
were saddened with terrible grief and were crying heavily for having
missed their darling daughter to the Lord. Even though periyAzhwAr knew all
bhakti and vEdha poruL, etc., etc., he could not control his tears for the
separation from his dearest kOdhai.
"Oru magalai udaiyen; ulagam niraindha
pugazhal
thirumagal pol valartthen senkanmal dhan
konduponan "
meaning:
Only one daughter I had; The one who became very
famous (with her love for Lord); I brought her up like mahalakshmi; (Now I have
lost her;) That Red lotus eyed Lord has snatched her from me) (Poor
periyazhwar.
Guruji. A. Sivaguru Swamy
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