AzhvAr Arulamudham

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 *TIRUCHCHANDAVIRUTAM* by *TIRUMAZHISAI AZHVAR*. Tirumazhisai AzhvAr, also known as bhaktisAran has rendered two prabandams,nAnmugan tiruvandAdi and thiruchchandaviruttam. This second prabandam is added to the first thousand and his first prabandam is added to third thousand called "iyarpA". Tiruchchandaviruttam  as the name suggest is written in viruttam style and is a prosody with rhythmic metre. AzhvAr has played with numbers while explaining about the creation and the brahmam in the first decade. What is viruttam?  A verse consisting of four lines(நான்கு அடிகள் ) and a same set of syllables (சமமான சீர் பெற்ற) in each line is called viruttam. As this prabandam has rhythmic meters and set in viruttam style, this has come to be known as *TIRUCHCHANDAVIRUTTAM*. Tirumazhisai AzhvAr has delved deep in all kinds of philosophies and was finally brought to the path of vaishnavism by PEyAzhvAr. He is so strong in his, words and never frightened to express his views.

PERUMAL TIRUMOZHI 10 PASURAMS 741 TO 751   angkan nedDumadil   *RAMAYANA SANGRAHAM* kulasEkara perumAl moves from Vibhava form ( the incarnation state) to archa form (the idol state). Reminded of GOVINDARAJA PERUMAL of TILLAI NAGARAM, he sees him as rAma of chitrakooTam and wishes to sing about rAma. Hence this kshEtram is known as *TIRUCHITTIRAKOODAM* also referred as “punDareekapuram”. He sings the essence of entire rAmAyaNa in this decade. As this Azhwar is so much engrossed with rAma and this entire Tirumozhi is about rAmAyaNa, it is called RAMAYANA SANGRAHAM.   741 SHRI RAMA JANANAM (BALA KANDAM) 741 * angkaNedu madhiL pudai sUzh ayOdhdhi ennum * aNi nagaraththu ulaganaiththum viLakkum sOdhi * vengkadhirOn kulaththukkOr viLakkAyth thOnRi * viN muzhudhum uyak koNda vIran thannai ** sengkaNedung karumugilai irAman thannaith * thillainagarth thiruchchithrakUdam thannuL * engkaL thani mudhalvanai emperumAn thannai * enRu kolO! kaN kuLirak kANum nALE (2) (1) In the world’s most picture