NACHCHIYAR TIRUMOZHI 9

-

 NACHCHIYAR TIRUMOZHI 9 

PASURAMS 587 TO 596


Sindura chempOdi


The clouds, instead of carrying forward ANDAL’S request, were aiming at performing their duty and profusely poured out. This brought out the traits of the season which added to her agony of separation. She starts describing about that and her deep interest towards SundararAja perumAl of tirumAlirunchOlai.


587 * sindhurach sempodip pOl * thirumAlirunjsOlai engkum * 

indhira kOpangkaLE * ezhundhum parandhittanavAl ** 

mandharam nAtti anRu * madhurak kozhunjsARu koNda * 

sundharath thOL udaiyAn * suzhalaiyil ninRu uydhungkolO? (2) (1)


587) As a result of the monsoon, flowers have bloomed all over tirumAlirunchOlai, and the butterflies (இந்திர கோபங்கள்) hovering over it appears like saffron powder dusted all over,  that reminds the red lips of her lover to AndAl . This beautiful shouldered Lord Azhagar ( சுந்தரத் தோளுடையான்) held the hands of the divine nectar (periya pirAtti), when He once churned the milky ocean, erecting mount mandArA for the sake of the dEvas who surrendered requesting Him to retrieve the nectar by churning. Here AndAl feels, both EmperumAn and the butterflies torment her which further weakens her making  her anxious and think, if at all she will survive, getting relieved from this tormenting clutches of Emperuman, who dodges her by not coming and showing in person to get united with her.  (1)


588 pOrk kaLiRu porum * mAlirunjsOlaiyam pUmpuRavil *

 thArkkodi mullaigaLum * thavaLa nagai kAttuginRa ** 

kArkkoL padAkkaL18 ninRu * kazhaRich sirikkath thariyEn * 

ArkkidugO? thOzhI! * avan thAr seydha pUsalaiyE (2)


588)At the foothills of tirumaAlirunchOlai, where the elephants wrestle among themselves, the white flowers of tarkodi mullai  (arabian jasmine), that reminds me of azhagar's beautiful smile and the flowers of kArkoLL padAk( bedely emetic nut) that have bloomed well seem to be mocking at me. I am unable to bear this. Oh! My dear friend, how will I explain my grief of longing to possess the garland from Him? (2)


589 karuviLai oN malargAL! * kAyA malargAL! * 

thirumAl uruvoLi kAttuginRIr * enakku uyvazhakkonRu uraiyIr ** 

thiruviLaiyAdu thiN thOL * thirumAlirunjsOlai nambi *

 vari vaLaiyil pugundhu * vandhi patRum vazhakkuLadhE (3)


589) Oh!, beautiful kayA flowers (ironwood tree) and karuvilai(mussel shell creeper) flowers, showing your dark colours, you remind me of the Lord and torment me. Instead can you not understand my difficulty and tell me a way out of this? Is it fair on the part of Azhagar, on whose magnificent shoulders  (tiruviLayAdu tintOL) does Goddess MahAlakshmi rely on, to enter into my house and forcibly take my bangles away? (3)


590 paimpozhil vAzh kuyilgAL! * mayilgAL! oN karuviLaigAL! * 

vambak kaLangkanigAL! * vaNNap pUvai naRumalargAL! ** 

aimperum pAdhagargAL! * aNi mAlirunjsOlai ninRa * 

emperumAnudaiya niRam * ungkaLukku en seyvadhE? (4)


590) Oh! cuckoos of the extensive orchards, peacocks, the beautiful fragrant kAkkam and kayA flowers, the fresh kalAp fruits , you have all joined together to torment me like the five great sinners (aimperum pAdagargAL). For what reason have you taken the hue of my EmperumAn ?Is it only to torture me?

AndAl feels that, the hue of all chetanAs and achetanAs that are naturally present are there only to remind her of His colour. At the time of her separation, instead of comforting her they have joined hands to torment her is what she feels. (4)


591 thungka malarp pozhil sUzh * thirumAlirunjsOlai ninRa * 

sengkat karumugilin * thiru urup pOl ** 

malar mEl thongkiya vaNdinangkAL! * thogu pUnj sunaigAL! * 

sunaiyil thangku senthAmaraigAL! * enakku Or saraN sAtRuminE (5)


591) Oh! Swarm of bees! The way you sleep clinging on to the flowers, reminds me of my dark cloud hued Lord Azhagar with His reddish eyes, who stands in tirumAlirumchOlai surrounded by well grown orchards. Oh! Springs that are present nearby, Oh, lotus flowers that decorate the springs! Tell me a way where I can surrender myself and get relieved of this torture. (5)


592 * nARu naRum pozhil * mAlirunjsOlai nambikku * 

nAn nURu thadAvil veNNey * vAy nErndhu parAvi vaiththEn ** 

nURu thadA niRaindha * akkAra adisil sonnEn *

ERu thiru udaiyAn * inRu vandhu ivai koLLungkolO? (6)


592) Elaborating the scenario of monsoon in all the above verses, that reminds her of the Lord, now AndAl wishes to offer Him, His favourite dishes. She says, I pledge to offer whole heartedly, a hundred big container filled with butter and another hundred filled with akkAravadisil (sweet Pongal), to my Azhagar, who resides in the fragrant tirumAlirunchOlai. Will this consort of the Goddess who is seated on His chest accept my offering? (6)


The significance of this pAsuram and the one above is that, they stand to explain the dvaya mantram. The first half of the dvaya mantram talks about surrendering ourselves to the divine couple and the second half talks about the eternal servitude to Him. This is clearly explained in these verses.

Anecdote:

Once when emperumAnAr (rAmAnujar) was doing a discourse of nAchiyAr tirumozhi, he wanted to fulfill AndAl's desire that she gave orally in reality. He immediately proceeded to tirumAlirum sOlai and performed AndAl's verbal commitment, by practically offering 100 big vessels of butter and 100 big vessels of akkAravadisil. He went to srivilliputtoor to have the darshan of AndAl and it is believed that AndAl coming out of the archa (idol)form embraced emperumAnAr and called him "nam aNNarE" (elder brother). "perumpUdUr mAmunikku pinnAnAL vAzhiyE", referring to AndAl is well explained by the above incident.


593 inRu vandhu iththanaiyum * amudhu seydhidap peRil * 

nAn onRu nURAyiramAk koduththup * pinnum ALum seyvan **

thenRal maNam kamazhum * thirumAlirunjsOlai thannuL ninRa pirAn * 

adiyEn manaththE vandhu nEr padilE (7)


593) Today, if my Lord of tirumAlirumchOlai, comes and accepts my offerings of butter and sweet pongal, and show Himself to me, l shall be delighted thinking that He has entered my heart and is residing there. Further more I shall offer one hundred thousands more(onru noor AyiramAga) and not stopping there will continue to do eternal service at the lotus feet of the Lord who stands in tirumAlirumchOlai where fragrant breeze keeps blowing. (7)


594 kAlai ezhundhirundhu * kariya kuruvik kaNangkaL * 

mAlin varavu solli * maruL pAdudhal meymmai kolO? **

 sOlai malaip perumAn * thuvarApadhi emperumAn * 

Alinilaip perumAn * avan vArththai uraikkinRadhE (8)


594) In the birthplace of AndAl, even the birds ruminate over EmperumAn. As she waits for Krishna to come, through the night, she sees the dark sparrows (கரியிட்ட குருவி கணங்கள்)group together and utter the different names of Lord Hari, singing the tune of maruL, indicating His arrival as the dawn breaks. They keep chattering about the Lord of tirumAlirumchOlai, the King of dwAraka, and the One who lies on the banyan leaf (வடபத்ரசாயி). Hearing these words AndAl thinks that, would these words  become true or false. (8)


595 kOngkalarum pozhil * mAlirunjsOlaiyil konRaigaL mEl * 

thUngku pon mAlaigaLOdu * udanAy ninRu thUngkuginREn ** 

pUngkoL thirumugaththu * maduththUdhiya sangkoliyum * 

sArngkavil nAN oliyum * thalaippeyvadhu enjnjAnRu kolO (9)


595) At the height of dejection, AndAl laments saying ," in the hills of tirumAlirumchOlai abundant with orchards filled with bloomed ironwood trees( kOngu maRam), the strings of the Indian laburnum( kOndrai poo)flowers, hang like garlands without any use. Even I stand like this waiting to know when I shall be enjoying the proximity of the resonance from the pAnchajanyam blown from HIS beautiful coral-lips and the resonating sound from the sArngam bow"? (9)


PHALA SRUTHI

596 * sandhodu kAragilum sumandhu * thadangkaL porudhu * 

vandhizhiyum silambARudai * mAlirunjsOlai ninRa sundharanai ** 

surumbAr kuzhal * kOdhai thoguththuraiththa * 

senthamizh paththum vallAr * thirumAl adi sErvargaLE (10)


596) AndAl with her thick tresses swarmed with bees, has graciously delivered in chaste Tamizh these ten verses about Lord Azhagar residing in tirumAlirumchOlai, where nUpura Ganga river also called The silambAru gushes and flows eroding many small lakes carrying on its path logs of sandalwood and agil woods (eaglewood). Those who chant these songs will attain the lotus feet of Lord NArAyaNa (10).


AndAl Thiruvadigale Sharanam

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Divya Prabandham

-
Image
Divya Prabandham also called Nalaayira Divya prabandham consists of nearly 4000 hymns.  These 4000 Tamil verses are composed by 12 Tamil poet-saints called Azhwars who were immersed in their devotion to Lord Vishnu. The 12 Azhwars sang these songs about various sacred shrines and the presiding Deity of the shrine, that came to be known as the Divya Desams. There are 108 Divya Desams. 105 in India, 1 in Nepal  and the last two believed to be beyond the Earthly realms. The 12 Azhwars Poigai azhwar Boothath azhwar Peyazhwar Thirumazhisai azhwar Nammazhwar Madhurakavi azhwar Kulasekara azhwar Peri azhwar  Andal  Thondaradipodi azhwar Thiruppan azhwar Thirumangai azhwar       The Nalaayira Divya Prabandham also known as “DRAVIDA VEDAM” or “TAMIL VEDAM” became lost after the period of the Azhwars. Later it was the scholar-saint and Acharya “NATHAMUNI “ who in the 10th century retrieved and compiled this treasure in the present form which’s the pride of Tamil Classical Literature.      Natham
Read more

NACHCHIYAR TIRUMOZHI 14

-
NACHCHIYAR TIRUMOZHI 14 PASURAMS 637 to 646 *paTTi mEyndOr* After all the hardships that AndAl faced in uniting with the Lord, that she explained starting from " thaiyoru thingkaLum “, finally she gets relieved by having a darshan of the Lord when He shows up, which she explains interestingly in this last decade, as a conversation between herself and her gopika friends. AndAl, in the first half of each pAsuram putsforth a question asking,  "have you seen (கண்டீரே) kaNNan?" describing about Him. The later half comes as an answer saying (விருந்தாவனத்தே கண்டோமே) " *virundAvanaTTE kaNDOmE"* by the gopis. The essence of 'paramabakthi ' required to attain Him and the resultant 'pErinbam' attained out of it are clearly explained here.   637 * patti mEyndhOr kArERu * baladhEvaRku Or kIzhk kanRAy *  ittIRittu viLaiyAdi * ingkE pOdhak kaNdIrE? ** ittamAna pasukkaLai * inidhu maRiththu nIrUtti * vittuk koNdu viLaiyAda * virundhAvanaththE kaNdOmE (2) (1) (6
Read more

THIRUPPAVAI - PASURAM 1

-
Image
THIRUPPAVAI PASURAM 1 Andal assumes herself to be the cowherdess of  ‘AyarpAdi’, awakens her peers to follow a certain discipline in view of attaining everlasting happiness and service to the Lord. Eventually selecting the month of “MARGAZHI” and as a monthlong process she sang 30 pAsurams (one for each day) for the “PAVAI NONBU”, called “THIRUPPAVAI”. Each pAsuram ends with the special phrase “ELOr EmpAvAi”, meaning Oh, my dear friends which is the speciality of ThiruppAvai. 474.mArgazhit tingaL, madi niRainDa nannALAl *  nIrADap pOduvIr! pOduminO nErizhaiyIr! *  sIr malgum AyppADich selvach siRumeergAL! *  kUrvEl koDuntozhilan nandagOpan kumaran **  ErArnda kaNNi, yasOdai iLanjchingam *  kArmEnich sengaN kadir madiyam pOl mugattAn *  nArAyaNanE namakkE paRai taruvAn *  pArOr pugazhap paDindElOr empAvAy (1) 1.MARGAZHI THINGAL. The First PAsuram is the introduction, where she invites all her companions for this PAvai NOnbu. As it is the first full moon day of the month of “MARGAZHI”, O
Read more

PERIYAZHVAR TIRUMOZHI - 3.6

-
 PERIYAZHVAR TIRUMOZHI - 3.6 PASURAMS 275 – 285 The glory of kaNNan playing the flute. 275: naavalam periya theevinil vaazhum* naNGgaimeer_kaaL! idhu Or aRpudham kELeer* thoovalam puriyudaiya thirumaal* thooyavaayil kuzhalOsai vazhiyE* kOvalar siRumiyar iLaNGgoNGgai- kudhuhalippa* udaluLavizhndhu* eNGgum- kaavalum kadandhu kayiRumaalaiyaaki* vandhu kavizhndhu n^inRanarE.* (2) (1) 275. Oh beautiful girls who live in the island of jambudweepa (nAvalan teevu)! Come and listen to this wonder!! The consort of MahAlakshmi, holding the pure, right coiled conch (valampuri), is now playing the flute keeping it on His purest lips. The girls of AyarpAdi lost themselves listening to the mesmerising tunes . As their emotions rose high, they started going towards the music leaving their boundaries and they all joined together like flowers of a string to listen to the music. Seeing kaNNan playing the flute they put their heads down in shame. (1) 276: idavaNarai idaththOLodu saayththu* iruhai koodappu
Read more

PERUMAL TIRUMOZHI - 9*

-
*PERUMAL TIRUMOZHI 9* *PASURAMS 730—740* *Van tALiNai* (thanayan vanam pugath dhasarathan pulambudhal) In this decade AzhvAr talks about the misfortune of king dasharathA. He thinks that, there can be none like DasarathA, who would have    suffered to this extent, the separation of rAma. DasarathA's grief and regret of sending rAma to the forest is vividly explained here. 730 * vanthALiniNai vaNangki vaLanagaram thozhudhEththa * mannanAvAn ninRAyai * ariyaNai mEl irundhAyai * nedungkAnam padarap pOgu enRAL ** em irAmAvO! * unaip payandha kaikEsi than soRkEttu * nanRAga nAnilaththai ALviththEn * nanmaganE! unnai nAnE (1) 730. Oh! My dear son rAma! Getting to know the excitement of the entire subjects of Ayodhya and the chieftains, who respect you, greet you and honour you by falling at your feet, on making you the next heir to the throne, I got overwhelmed in making all the arrangements for crowning you. Later listening to the words of kaikeyi, I had to dethrone you and send you to
Read more

PERUMAL TIRUMOZHI - 7

-
PERUMAL TIRUMOZHI - 7 PASURAMS 708 TO 718 Alai neeL karumbu According to various circumstances and the state of mind one is in, one can enjoy Lord in different kinds of relationship, like husband and wife, mother and child, teacher and student or as two friends. Here in this tirumozhi, the motherly instinct of AzhwAr becomes prominent. Not finding his child close to him, he personifies himself as Devaki and tries to reminiscence each and every stage of kaNNan's childhood. The time frame here is that, Devaki laments this when she sees KaNNan after He frees her on the death of Kamsa. THE CRADLE STAGE: [New born] 708 * AlainIL karumbannavan thAlO * ambuyath thadangkaNNinan thAlO * vElainIr niRaththannavan thAlO * vEzhap pOdhaga mannavan thAlO ** ElavArkuzhal en magan thAlO * enRenRu unnai en vAyidai niRaiya * thAloliththidum thiruvinai illAth * thAyaril kadaiyAyina thAyE(2) (1) 708 Oh my child!, who is like the well grown sugarcane ready to be sent to the factory for juice extraction,
Read more

PERIAZHWAR THIRUMOZHI.PALLANDU 1 - 1

-
 PERIAZHVAR THIRUMOZHI. PALLANDU. Pasurams- 1 - 12 During his triumph procession through the streets of Madurai city, emperumAn showed himself along with PiraaTTi to  periyAzhwAr. On seeing bhagavAn in the most beautiful form  revealing  his auspicious qualities such as saundharyam (beauty), etc., AzhvAr was concerned and out of great fear started  thinking that, “in this world which is controlled by kAlam (time), what bad might happen to him?, and what evil eyes people might cast on Him”. So he performed mangaLAsAsanam (well-wishing thoughts) to emperumAn‘s divine and beautiful form to stay forever from any evil eyes. Pasuram 1: pallANdu pallANdu pallAyiraththANdu pala kOdi nURAyiram mallANda thiN thOL maNivaNNA! un sEvadi sevvi thirukkAppu # He starts the first pasuram saying “Pallaandu Pallaandu “ praising the Lord who has conquered the enemies with His strong arms. May you be praised for ever and ever and ever and for many crores of years to come as we stand beneath your Divine fee
Read more