srImathE rAmAnujAya namaha srImadh varavara munayE namaha Dear members, I just happened to read the above thread only today. While Sri Varadhan has clearly explained the basis of the tradition of word of mouth, Sri Venkatesan has very clearly come out explaining the aspect of "belief" in the traditions of the word of mouth. I would not say, Sri Mani's points are absurd. As Sri Varadhan and Sri Venkatesan stated, these are just the two sides of the coins. Once again, we Indians have been very poor in recording our histories and only a very few did it out of divine order. So we have some of the scriptures today. In my opinion, it is purely the individuals belief on which side of the coin, which makes the argument. One can neither say that the "disbelief" view is wrong nor say that the "belief" view is wrong as for both of them there is no scriptural evidence. If one can turn down the belief that Sri emberumAnAr sannidhi was built by Sri AnanthAzhwAr, by saying that there is no scriptural evidence, then the other side, i.e., it was not built by Sri AnanthAzhwAr, can also be negated with the same argument of no scriptural evidence availability. These are the part of the "tharka sAstrAs". But I request one information. What is it that we are going to do by saying that either Sri AnanthAzhwAr built the sannidhi or not. What are we trying to achieve here. I am sure the sannidhi of Sri emberumAnAr is a very very desirable one between all the Sri Vaishnavas. So why this thread? On the other hand, I came to know a disturbing hearsay, that, as Sri emberumAnAr in Thirumalai is not wearing a kAshAya vasthram and also since he has a vyAkhyA mudhrai, this is actually Swamy dEsikan and only the thenkalais, later converted this to Sri emberumAnAr. Please do not say that none of you heard this. This is a very very popular rumour. Any clues on this? I am sorry to have dragged this argument into another potential thread. But I did this to let you all know how the hearsays, can be true and false both to either of the sect or people. But what I am surprised in this is that the question is on Sri emberumAnAr's sannidhi, who is undisputedly the greatest AchArya for both the sects. This is not on a sannidhi of Sri maNavALa mAmunigaL or Sri dEsikar. So what are we going to gain with this and what is the clarification one is expecting. I am sure nobody, who is rational, will say Sri Mani was wrong when he initiated this. While Sri Mani's view is one possible view, the other view is also another possibility. I think this has to be left just here. AzhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan Thirumalai Vinjamoor Venkatesh
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