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ThirupaLLiyezucchi is a short but moving 
Prabhandham of ThoNdardippodi AzhwAr hailed as 
SrI RanganAtha Pathivrathai. He never sang
about any dhivya dEsa EmperumAn except Lord
RanganAtha. 

ThirupaLLiyezucchi is the seventh Prabhandham of 
the Mudal Aayiram (First Thousand of the sacred 
collect of Four Thousand or NaalAyira Dhivya prabhandham). 
There are Ten paasurams in this Prabhandham.The description
of the beauty of the early morning scenes at SrIrangam 
and the AzhwAr's awakening of the Lord as a VaithALikar
(Court poet) are most moving.

The Birth of the AzhwAr 
************************
ThoNDardippodi AzhwAr incarnated as the amsam
of Vaijayanthi VanamAlai--adorning the Lord's
chest region-- during a Marghazhi Kettai 
( lunar asterism of JyEshtA) . His avathAra 
Sthalam is ThirumaNDangudi , a village near 
the dhivya dEsam of PuLLambhUthangudi sung
later by Thirumangai AzhwAr.The name given to
him by his parents was Vipra NaarAyanan. 
He was a Vipra (Brahmin) by birth and 
completed VedAdhyayanam , stayed as a bachelor
and devoted His life to serve the Lord of
SrIrangam with Nandhavanam service just like
PeriyAzhwAr at SrIvilliputthUr before his times. 

Today , there is a temple for Lord RanganAtha
at ThirumaNDangudi today and a Bhattar by the name of
SrIdhara Bhattar belonging to the Vamsam of
ThoNDaradippodi AzhwAr is performing AarAdhanam
for Lord RanganAtha there.There will be a grand 
celebration of PavithrOthsavam there this September.

The Test of the Lord
*********************
At one time, the Lord of SrIrangam tested Vipra NaarAyanar
severely in the form of carnal temptations from a woman of 
easy virtues by the name of Deva Daasi of ThirukkarambanUr. 
Vipra NaarAyanar fell for Deva Devi and forgot all
about his garland kaimkaryams for the Lord of Srirangam.
Vipra Narayanar was totally caught in the net of
Deva Devi's feminine charms.

Thanks to the intervention of SrI RanganAyaki, Her
Lord was persudaed to come to the rescue of AzhwAr. 
Vipra NarAyaNar woke up from his descent in to 
the self-destructive way of chasing evanescent 
pleasures of the world , turned his back on them
and threw himself with redoubled energy to serve
the dhivya dampathis of SrIrangam for the rest of
his life on earth . He changed his name now to 
"ThoNDardaippodi/ BhakthAngri rENu" or the dust 
from the sacred feet of the servants of the Lord. 
He was forever grateful to the DayA of the Lord ,
which brought him back from the brink of disaster
and acknowledged that gratitude this way:

" MaatharAr kayak-kaNNennum valai utpattazhunthuvEnai
pOtharE yenRu solli punthiyiRp-puhunthu Tann Paal
aatharam peruha vaittha--ArangatthAmmAn " 

The distinction of ThiruppaLLiyezucchi
***************************************
ThirupaLLiyezucchi has the distinction of being 
sung at all dhivya Desams in the morning hours 
" to wake up " the Lord and to appeal to Him to
go about His Jagath VyApArams. It is known as 
SuprabhAtham in Sanskrit ; ThirupaLLiyezucchi 
Prabhandham is the Aadhi SuprabhAtham , if we 
do not take into account the SuprabhAtham sung by
Sage ViswAmithrA to Lord Raamachandra :

KousalyA SuprajA Raama poorvA sandhyA pravartathE
Utthishta Nara sArdhUla karthavyam dhaivamAhnikam 

Here , the wake-up call is for reminding the Lord 
about the approach of PrAtha: Sandhyai and the need 
for Him to awaken and perform His nithyAnushtAnams
prescribed by the SaasthrAs. 

In the case of Lord RanganAthan , whom ThoNDaradippodi
AzhwAr awakened , it is not about awakening the Lord
to perform His nithyAnushtAnams , but it is for Him to bless
the worlds and their beings with Auspiciousnes of 
every kind. It is more like the slOkam below :

"UtthishtOtthishta Govindha Utthishta Garuda dhvaja
Utthishta KamalA Kaantha THRAILOKYAM MANGALAM KURU "

The poet implies here that all the three worlds 
will not function well and hence will spiral towards
a destructive end , if the Lord did not awaken and blessed
them with His auspicious glances. Hence AzhwAr reasons 
that the Lord should awaken now and rejuvenate the world 
and save it from its slumber of Ajn~Anam and ViparItha 
Jn~Anam. 

It is in this spirit that the AzhwAr composed 
this dhivya Prabhandham and placed it at the sacred
feet of Lord RanganAthan. There are other reasons as well
for the AzhwAr to compose this Prabhandham from
an autobiographical point of view. 

ThirupaLLiyezucchi is awakening of the Lord with
affection.Our Lord is never asleep. Swamy NammazhwAr 
refers to this "sleep " of the Lord with the salutation: 
" uRanguvAn pOl yOgu seytha PerumALai" . It is as if 
He was sleeping. He is in a state of Yoga NidhrA. 
ThoNDaradippodi AzhwAr remembered the MahOpakAram performed by 
SrI RanganAtha at a time of major crisis in his life , 
when he was intoxicated with the love for Deva Devi , 
the woman of easy virtues and abandoned the kaimkaryams
for his Lord. He remembered how SrI RanganAthan came to
his rescue . AzhwAr wanted the Lord of SrIrangam 
to come now to the rescue of the other suffering jeevans ,
just as He had come before to his rescue . Propelled by
that desire for the Lord to help other suffering jeevans , 
AzhwAr sang the ThirupaLLiyezhucchi pAsurams and 
pleaded with the Lord to awaken and bless the world 
and its beings.

The Raagams chosen for singing ThiruppaLLiyezucchi
**************************************************
The ten Paasurams are sung in the following
sequence of RaagAs :

BhouLi, KedAram, Aarabhi ,Aanandha Bhairavi,
KalyANi, KaanadA ,Mohanam , DhanyAsi , Poorvi 
KalyANi and MadhyamAvathi.

Most of them are early morning or morning raagAs
or those which can be sung at all times.

Even today , Lord RanganAtha awakens to 
the ThiruppaLLiyezucchi paasurams rendered
by the Veenai MirAsus of His dEvasthAnam 
every morning . 

In the next posting , adiyEn would cover 
the Two Taniyans for this Prabhandham
blessed to us by two of the Five AchAryAs
of Bhagavath RaamAnujA.

TuLavat-thoNDAya Thol seert-ThoNDaradipodi
AzhwAr ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam,
Daasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri SadagOpan 




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