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Sri Parthasarathi thunai
Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Pranams,
In the website www.tirumala.org now the sapthagiri magazine's online 
version is seen. Adiyen happened to go through an article about the 
History of Tirupati in the April 2002 and the May 2002 issues. Some 
of the informations in this article really put me to shock. I would 
like to put forward some of the sentences of the author to the 
members of the group. May the learned members of the group please 
comment on the same.
1. "It is worth pointing out here that neither Sri Alavandar, 
tirumali nambi,Sri Ramanuja nor his cousin and disciple Embar 
contributed a taniyan for the thiruvaymoli nor was a commentary 
written by any one of the above. These acharyas were not perhaps 
great tamil scholars for one thing. IT IS EVEN DOUBTFUL IF SRI 
RAMANUJA STUDIED CLOSELY ALL THE VERSES OF THE THIRUVAYMOLI. The 
thiruvoymoli alone came to be well known as the standard form of 
devotional literature,..........The works of other alvars were 
obviously not known, or less known and could not have been classed as 
philosophical, but only devotional...............Nammazhvar's 
tiruvoymoli makes no reference to and does not attempt to refute the 
Advaita philosophy".
2. "The natural inference is that a section of the srivaishnavas felt 
that thirukurukai-piran pillan's commentary though it had the 
approval of Sri Ramanuja and was considered the standard one, did not 
dp full justice to Nammazhvar's Tiruvaymoli, or that it was not 
illuminative".(The author here shows his view that pillan's 
commentary was accepted by the vadagalais and the tengalai acharyas 
from nanjiyar and others did not accept that and hence made other 
commentaries)
3. "Ramanuja has not quoted a single tamil verse from thiruvaimozhi 
as authority..............So it could not with justification or in 
fairness be said that his philosophy was to any extent inspired by 
the teachings of the thiruvaimozhi".

May 2002
1. "The tanians prefixed to the other three works of Sri Nammazhvar 
and to the other works of the prabhandam show that these works were 
discovered by later acharyas."
2. "One Tiruvaimozhi pillai alias tirumalai alvan born in 1325 A.d 
wrote a commentary on periya alvar's Tirumoli. He is the son of 
Pillai Lokacharya."
3. "Whether the thiruvaimozhi was seriously studied before the 
appearance of the commentary by pillan and whether the other twenty 
three works which make up the prabhandam were known to and were 
studied by Sri Ramanuja are matters open to doubt"
4. " pillan does not say anywhere therein that he executed the work 
in obedience to Sri Ramanuja's command and that it had the seal of 
his approval".

The author has in many places contradicted his own statements but 
then there are many things the author has said which will shock all 
of us. Adiyen would like the learned members to go through the 
article and throw light on the authority of the author's words. 

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai
Sumithra Varadarajan





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