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Sri Parthasarathi thunai

SrimathE rAmAnujaya Namaha

Sri Vara Vara munayE Namaha

Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha



Thaniyans rendered by Swamy emperumAnAr :



"ennamudham ootugEn engEvA paikiliyE!

thennarangam pAdavalla seerperumal-ponnan

silaisEr nudhaliyarvEl sEralarkOn engal 

kulasEkaran endrE kooru"



"vAzhi parakAlan vAzhi kalikandri

vAzhi kurayaloor vAzh vEndhan vAzhiyarO

mAyOnai vAlvaliyAl mandhiramkol mangaiyarkOn

thooyOn sudarmAna vEl"



Among the ten azhvars, two azhvars who were kings were kulasekaran and kaliyan. 
One of them is celebrated as "kollikAvalan koodal nAyakan kOzhikOn kulasEkaran" 
and the other "AlinAdan arulmAri arattamukki adaiyAr seeyam kongumalar 
kuzhliyar vEl mangai vEndan kottravEl parakAlan kaliyan". Let us compare and 
contrast these two azhvars in this short posting.



Kulasekara azhvar had a great attraction to rAmAvathAram but still his daily 
wish was to go to have the darshan of the archA moorthi in Srirangam 
("gushyathE yasya nagarE ranga yAthrA dhinE dhinE"). Whereas kaliyan saw the 
vibhavAthAra gunas in the archAmoorthis and got himself immersed in the divya 
dEsa anubhavams. Kaliyan did bhagavata dhadheeyArAdhanam daily and for that 
even went to the extent of stealing. Kulasekara azhvar also felt treating the 
bhagavatas was more important than even his divya desa yathra. When his 
ministers complained that the bhagavatas has stolen a jewel of the palace lord, 
kulasekara azhvar strongly said that bhagavat bhakthas would never steal ("Aram 
keda paran anbar kollAr endru avargalukkE vArankeda kudappAmbil kai yittavan 
mAttralarai veerankeduththa senkOl kollikAvalan villavarkOn sEran kulasEkaran 
mudivEndar sikAmaniyE"). Kaliyan didn't mind even stealing when it came to 
bhagavata dhadheeyArAdhanam and the king kulasekaran didn't mind his life for 
proving the bhagavatas to be flawless. So more than their passion towards 
bhagavat kainkaryam the azhvars showed their deep interest towards bhAgavata 
kainkaryam.



Now let us enjoy some aspects in their prabhandams. Both these azhvars have 
sung a padhigam (10 paasurams) as "oodal paasurams" (a small fight between the 
hero and the heroine). Kulasekara azhvar considers himself to be a gopi and 
shows a false anger towards krishna who had left her and had stayed with 
another gopi the previous night "A-rmalarpoonkuzhalAyar mAdhar..." whereas 
kaliyan shows his anger towards thiruindaloor emperuman in the beautiful 
padhigam "nummai thozhudhOm nuntham pani seidhirukkum nummadiyOm" Kaliyan is 
always used to breaking usual norms. Here again he breaks the rule for an 
"oodal paasuram" Oodal generally occurs between a hero and a heroine in the 
Tamil literature but these paasurams indicate the oodal of kaliyan as his self 
(thAnAna thanmaiyil oodal) with emperuman. There is one another interesting 
feature in these paasurams. The story goes like this. Thirumangai Azhvar who 
has a great thirst for enjoying the divine archa roopam of emperumans went to 
thiruindhaloor to have the divine darshan of parimala ranganathan. But he went 
a little late and hence the archakar has closed the doors and had gone home. 
With all thoughts of having a great darshan (pArippu) kaliyan reached the 
temple entrance and was taken aback to the see the locked door. Kaliyan doesn't 
fall under our category who will just walk out of the place thinking that this 
time it is not perumal's sankalpam let's have the darshan the next time nor 
will kaliyan wait till the archakar opens the door in the evening. He started 
arguing with the emperuman to give him darshan immediately. He says, 
"nummadiyAr ellArOdum okka enni yirundheerO adiyEnai" (bharatha can wait for 14 
years to see rama piran, sita piratti waited for 10 months, nammazhvar can sing 
4 padhigams as 'thoodhu' due to separation from emperuman but kaliyan is 
different from all these people since he cannot even sing 10 paasurams without 
singing about the divya desa emperumans that is why he says 'Did you think me 
to be like your other bhakthas?'). Such was kaliyan's state of mind. But how 
will kulasekara azhvar act in a similar situation?



Such a situation came to kulasekara azhvar also. While azhvar went to have the 
darshan of sowrirajan in thirukannapuram the doors were closed so azhvar was 
unable to have the darshan of emperuman. What did he do? Kulasekara perumal 
said, "Whether you give me darshan or not I don't mind. My prime job is to do 
mangalAsAsanams to you. If you give me darshan I will sing after enjoying your 
divine beauty if not still I will sing." Now azhvar decided to sing lullaby to 
the sleeping emperuman and hence sings the 'thAlAttu padhigam' "mannupugazh 
kOsalaithan". The name of the place is kannapuram that itself indicates that 
the perumal inside is krishnan but then azhvar sings lullaby to Sri 
Chakravarthi thirumagan who resides in thirukkannapuram. Why? Kulasekara 
perumal's heart was filled with only ramayana and rama thirukkalyana gunas. So 
since sowrirajan didn't give him darshan he assumed him to be like the perumal 
in his heart and sang the paasurams. Such was kulasekara perumal's state of 
mind. The thought process of both the azhvars is quiet different but both have 
similarity in the sense that they give us the divine anubhavam that cannot be 
explained by mere words.



Alwar emperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Adiyen rAmAnuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan







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