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SrI:
SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:
Dearest all,

Let us continue to enjoy Thirumangai AzhwAr?w
wonderful verses on Thiruvenkatamudiayaan. 

kalayaami kalidhvamsam kavim lOkadhivaakaram
yaSya kObi: prakaaSaabir aavidhyam niHatham thama:
 
I meditate on the Poet, who is like the Sun for the
whole world, to destroy the darkness of ignorance
(a~jnAnam) with his word and who destroys the Kali
dhOsham. 

ThirumangaiAzhwAr proceeds to plead the Lord of
TirumalA for His 
unbounded limitless mercy that pours out on His own
out of His Greatest 
compassion on us. Let us enjoy this nice ten on
AzhwAr's plea. 

ilangkaippadhikku anRIRaiyaaya, arakkar
kulamkettavarmaaLak kodippuLthiritthaay!,
vilangkalkudumith thiruvEngkadammEya,
alangkalthuLabamudiyaay! aruLaayE.    1.10.2

Oh Lord! The one who thrashed and chased away  maali
and other asurAs of lankA that day, by riding on
GarudA and sending the Strong ChakrA! Oh Lord of
ThiruvEmkatam, where even Sun and Moon deviate from 
their tracks due to the tall Vemkata Mountain! Oh
Lord! the One who wears ThuLasi maalai on Your Head!
Please shower Your grace on me! 

[Extract from SrI SatakOpan Swami?s write up] In the
uttara KhAndham, In the first few chapters, Sage
AgasthyA explains to Lord RamachandrA the ancestors of
the Raakshasan, RaavaNan, whom the Lord had destroyed
at LankhA for his offenses against His divine SitA
piraatti.

At the battle of UpendrA with Maali, SumAli and
MaalyavAn, Maali's head was cut off by UpEndran
(VaasavAnujan) and the other two ran off from the
battle field and run to LankhA, their capital first
and then escape to the netherworld to escape the fury
of the Lord. This incident is referred to by
NammAzhwAr in the Thiruvaimozhi Paasuram 7.6.8 (
aaLiyai kaaNpariyAi): 

" Oh Lord! I must reach You and overcome all the
obstacles that stand in my way . If You will it so ,
these obstacles will be banished in one subsection of
a second. Yes, I do remember how you fought with the
powerful RaakshsAs , Maali , MaalyavAn and SumAli ,
who were the ancestors of RavaNA . You killed Maali
with Your Disc and the others ran away in fear. You
mounted Your Vaahanam , Garudan , and fought them and
destroyed their entire entourage . These pitiable
fellows fled like the jackals , when they see the king
of the forest;they ran away like the horses , when
they encounter a lion or a YaaLi . You left piles of 
RakshasA corpses in the battle field .Oh Lord ! Please
slay the demons in me like arrogance and ego , which
interfere with my joining You . Oh Lord ! How I long
to join You and see You with my very eyes before long!
 

After centuries of hiding , Sumaali left PaathALam and
returned to earth in the guise of a Human being with
his beautiful daughter , Kaikasi and was intent on her
being married to Sage Visrava, the son of Pulasthya
prajApathi , a direct descendant of BrahmA. Kaikasi
approached the Sage at the time , when he was
performing AgnihOthram. She did not realize that it
was an inauspicious time to approach a sage and ask
him to bless her by accepting her as his wife. The
sage explained to her that the interruption to his
AgnihOthram and her request to marry her would result
in the birth of RakshasAs given to cruel deeds instead
of pious sages. The father, SumAli was upset and
prayed to the sage to mitigate the inauspicious news.
The Sage agreed and said that there will be three sons
and the last of the three sons born of his union with
Kaikasi would be pious and the other two will be cruel
RakshasAs. Thus RaavaNA, KumbhakarNA and VibhishaNA
were born. The purpose of RaamAvathAram was
established.

The maali, Sumaali incident is also referred to by
NammAzhwAr in his Thiruvaymozhi 9.2.6 ? maachina maali
maalimaan enRaNG kavar_patak kananRumun NninRa,
kaaychina vEndhE! kathirmudi yaanE!

You came with such ferocity and anger on the more
ferocious GarudA bird with such speed and killed
maali, sumaali; that appeared like the Huge dark cloud
on Big Meru Parvatham (mountain). (With such
"kadunchinam" (terrific anger)m since, You attacked
them You are called "Kaay sina VendhanE!") Oh Lord of
brightest shining Crown! The Lord of ThiruppuLingudi!
With most strongest weapons (which also equally show
Your anger on asurAs) of ChakrA, Sanghu, Sword, Bow
and GadhA (mace), and You are the One who removes my
sorrows! Please show mercy on me! 

Thirumangai AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam
Regards
Namo Narayana
dAsan




        
                
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