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Sri Parthasarathi thunai
Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Pranams,

We all know that our guru paramparai starts with
Sriman Narayanan and ends with Sri Manavala Manunigal
or we can even say it ends with Sriman Narayanan
himself since Periya Perumal accepted Sri Mamunigal as
his guru thereby our guru paramparai is a cycle
starting with Narayanan and also ending with him. 

The cycle goes as follows:

Sriman Narayanan ? Sri Mahalakshmi ? Sri Vishvaksenar
? Nammazhvar ? Nathamunigal ?
Uyyakondar(Pundareekakshar) ? Manakkal Nambi ?
Aalavandaar(Periya mudaliyaar) ? Periya Nambi ? Sri
Ramanujar ? Embar ? Bhattar ? Nanjeeyer ? Nampillai ?
Vadakku Thiruveedhi Pillai ? Pillailokacharya ?
Thiruvaimozhipillai ? Manavala Mamunigal ? Periya
Perumal.

The life histories of the alwars and acharyas are
known to all of us and there are many web sites to
give the same. So I am not going to repeat the same. 
Let us now see some facts which all of us will like to
know or bring to memory frequently. One frequent
doubt which arises is why other alwars have not been
included in the guru paramparai. Usually two reasons
are given. One is after the age of alwars just before
the time of Sri Nathamunigal almost all the works of
the azhwars where lost. Only a few paasurams like the
ten paasurams of Thiruvaimozhi about Sri Thirukudandai
Aravamudan and Kanninun Siruthambhu of Madurakavi
Alwar was known to a few Srivaishnavites. Then,
Nathamunigal meditated the paasurams of Kanninun
Siruthambhu 12,000 times and got the whole of Divya
Prabhandam with meaning and also the Yoga Rahasyam
from Sri Nammazhvar. That is why we include only Sri
Nammazhwar who is supposed to have given the 4000
Paasurams we have today.

The other reason being, the custom to attribute
Nammazhwar to be the soul and the other Alwars as his
body. So when we say Nammazhwar it includes the body
and the soul. Let us see how the other Azhwars form
parts of Nammazhwar. Bhoothazhwar is considered as
the Head, Poigai and Peyalwars- his eyes, Periyazhvar
is considered his face, Thirumazhisai Alwar his neck,
Kulasekara and Thirupannan his hands, 
Thondaradipodigal his chest, Thirumangai mannan his
kopoozh and his great shisya Madurakavigal his feet.

Sriman Narayana gave the Thirumantram in the
Badrikashramam during his Nara-Narayana Avatara. Then
he preached the meaning of Dhvaya mahamantram to
Sridevi in Srivaikundam and then he gave the Charma
Sloka to Arjuna in the Krishna Avatara. Till today
our acharyas only give these three as upadesams during
our samasrayanam. So these three have been passed on
through our Guru paramparai then starting from
Nammazhwar the Divya prabhandam and the
Bhavisyadacharya Vigraham was also passed on. The
Bhavisyadhacharya Vigraham came out when Sri
Madurakavigal was trying to make sri Nammazhwar?s
Vigraham from the Thambarabarai water. Sri Nammazhwar
then told Madurakavigal that it was the vigraham of a
great acharya who will come to save the world from the
clutches of kali as he has told in his ?poliga poliga?
padigam. 

Though the number of acharyas we say in the guru
paramparai are less there were number of great
acharyas like Koorathazhwan , Mudaliyaandan,
Periyavaachan pillai who have done a great Kainkaryam
to the srivaishnava society but whose names are not
mentioned here. Sri Ramanuja wanted everyone to
become a Srivaishnavite and hence he established 74
simhanadhipatis to take care of people in different
places. Here I present you all with the names of the
74 simhanadhipatis but the greatness of many of these
acharyas are not known to us. It will be nice if some
learned member of this group, enlighten us with the
details of the various simhanadhipatis. 

·       CHOTTAI NAMBI (SON OF AALAVANDAR)
·       PUNDARIKA (SON OF MAHA POORNA)
·       YAAMUNA (SON OF GHOSTI PURNA)
·       SUNDARA BAHU ( SON OF THIRUMAALAI AANDAN)
·       RAAMANUJA ( SON OF SAILA PURNA)
·       PARASARA BHATTAR(AND HIS BROTHER, SONS OF 
ALWAN)
·       RAAMAANUJA ( SON OF AANDAN)
·       NADUVIL AAZHWAN(MADYAMAARYA)
·       GOMATATHU AAZHWAAN
·       THIRUKOVALOOR AAZHWAN
·       THIRUMOOHUR AAZHWAN
·       PILLAI PILLAI AZHWAAN(DISCIPLE OF KOORATHAZHWAN)
·       NADADOOR AMMAL (VARADA VISHNU ACHARYA, VATSYA
VARADAR)
·       VISHNU CHITTHA (ENGALAZHWAN)
·       MILAGAZHWAN
·       NEYYUNDHAZHWAN
·       BAALARAAYA-1 (SETLUR SERIYAAZHWAN)
·       ANANTHAZHWAN (THIRUMALAI)
·       VEDAANTHI AAZHWAN
·       KOVIL AAZHVAN
·       UKKALAAZHWAN
·       ARANA PURATU AAZHVAN
·       EMBAAR
·       KIDAMBI AACHAN
·       BALARAAYA-11(KANIYANOOR SIRIYA AAZHWAN)
·       ICHCHAMBAADI AAZHWAN
·       KONGIL AACHAN
·       ICHCHAMBADI JEEYER
·       TIRUMALI NALLAN
·       SATTAAM PILLAI JEEYER
·       THIRUVELLARAI JEEYER
·       AATKONDAVALLI JEEYER
·       THIRUNAGARI PILLAI
·       KAARANJI SOMAYAAJI
·       ALAMKAARA VENKATAVAR
·       NAMBI KARAM DEVAR
·       DEVARAJA BHATTAR
·       PILLAI URANDHI UDAIYAAR
·       THIRUKURUGAI PIRAN PILLAN
·       PERIYA KOIL VALLALAAR
·       AASSRIP PILLAI
·       KANNAPURATTU AACHAAN
·       MUNIP PILLAI
·       AMMANGHIP PILLAI
·       MAARUTHI AANDAAN
·       MAARUTHI SIRIYA AANDAAN
·       SOMAYAJI AANDAAN
·       JEEYER AANDAN
·       ISVARAANDAAN
·       IYENNIPILLAI AANDAAN
·       PERIYAA ANDAAN
·       SIRIYA AANDAAN
·       KURINJI PURAM SIRIYA AANDAAN
·       AMMANGI AANDAAN
·       AALAVANDAAR AANDAAN
·       DEVARAJA MUNI (ARULALAP PERUMAL EMPERUMANAR)
·       THONDANOOR NAMBI
·       MARUDOOR NAMBI
·       MAZHUVOOR NAMBI
·       THIRUKURUNGUDI NAMBI
·       KURUVA NAMBI
·       MUDUMBAI NAMBI
·       VADUGA NAMBI
·       VANKIPIRATHU NAMBI
·       PARAANKUSA NAMBI
·       AMMANGI AMMAL
·       PARUTHIK KOLLAI AMMAL
·       UKKALA AMMAL
·       CHOTTAI AMMAL
·       MUDUMBAI AMMAL
·       KOMAANDOOR PILLAI
·       KOMAANDOOR ELLAYAVALLI
·       KIDAAMBI PERUMAAL
·       AARKATU PILLAAN

Then Sri Manavala Mamunigal established the
Ashtadijgajas who were:
·       SRI VANNAMAMALAI JEEYER
·       SRI PATTARBIRAN JEEYER
·       SRI THIRUVENKATA RAMANUJA JEEYER
·       SRI KOILANNAN
·       SRI PRATHIVADI BAYANGARAM ANNA
·       SRI ERRUMBIAPPA
·       SRI APPILLAI
·       SRI APPULLAR

In the next postings we will see a brief about the
various works of our Aacharyas. 

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasyai
Sumithra Varadarajan


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