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SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

Dearest Srivaishnavas,

AzhwAr wondered in last PAsuram as to how the Lord was
to be born as cowherd Boy! The Lord asks: what is the
big deal of being born as human being; when I took
avathArams even as animals namely, Fish, Tortoise and
Boar.. AzhwAr responds in this PAsuram:
  
ampulaavu meenumaagi aamaiyaagi aazhiyaar
thampiraanumaagi mikkadhu anbumikkathu anRiyum
kompu araavu nuN marungul aayarmaadhar piLLaiyaay
empiraanum aayavaNNam en kolO em eesanE!     (35)

em IsanE! Our Lord! My Master! You appeared as Fish
(mathsyam) living in waters; also as Tortoise; But
still You were considered as Grand and Supreme as the
Lord with the divine ChakrA only even in those births;
You have such greatest vaathsalyam on us and take such
births; However,, You took birth as the child of the
creeper like narrow waisted cowherd woman and became
our darling Lord- in the most merciful manner! Why is
that so? 

You appeared as fish, tortoise etc.. But never called
as baby of this fish or child of that Tortoise; But
when born as cowherd Boy, Your parents were identified
and glorified. You were praised for having stayed
inside that cowherd woman?s stomach for ten months and
be addressed as her darling son, while actually you
were born of Devaki PiraaTTi due to her great penance!
Why did you have to be so- being addressed as YasOdhai
iLan~chingam (lion cub of YasOdhA)? Thinking of it- I
can know only one reason: it is only to enchant and
steal the hearts of people like me.. no other reason. 

Azhiyaar- even the Ayudha raaka- the king of all
AyudhAs- ChakrA. His Lord is Sriya: Pathi.
Or it may mean ? ChakrA and others (Sankhu, GadhA,
etc..) Lord of NithyasUris. 

Even during mathsya, koorma avathArams, He is Sankha
chakrA dhAri- Sriman Narayanan in His grandest form-
though born as animal. 
     
ampulAvum- Loitering in waters- Though this can be
referred to both mathsyam and Koormam, this word is
referred to only mathsyam because during
mathsyAvathAram, He (the Lord as fish) was there in
the king Sathyavrathan?s anjali (folded hands) during
argyam in the river of Kruthamaalai, in the vessel
(kalasam), pot, the huge pond, the deep huge ocean
etc.. Hence the word is more appropriate for the
masthyam than for Koormam.

Kombu arAvu- creeper and snake (kombum + arAvum) ?
same as kombaraavu nuNNEridai maarbhanai-
Thiruvaaymozhi 1.10.3). One can say: Where was He in
the stomach of YasOdhA? That is false. Okay, But can
one deny His residing on Her narrow waist (marungul)?
That can never be questioned. He never grew up like
the fish or Tortoise. This keeping Him on the waist
was not only enjoyed by YasOdhA; but by all cowherd
women (and hence addressed as Ayarmaadhar) 

Em piraan- After having been subjected to the
illiterate women of cowherd women as their darling-
being even tied down by them- we too are confident
that we can approach You with no apprehension and with
a hope that You would consider us as well- seeing your
sowlabhyam. 

OR like rishis and other AzhwArs I am also born and
hence em piraan (our Lord) - says AzhwAr. 

ThirumazhisaiAzhwAr ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam
Regards
Namo narayana
dAsan


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