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Sorry sri mg vasudevan swami. I am unable to resist writing the following 
pAsuram of mudhal thiruvandhAdhi. Please condone me for that.
"aran nAranan nAmam, An vidai puL vUrdhi, vurai nUl marai vuRaiyum kOil
vari nEr karumam azhippu, aLippu, kaiyadhu vEal nEami, vuruvam
eri kAr mEani onRu" mudhal thiruvandhAdhi 5
To be readjusted and read as

"aran,nAranan- nAmam
An, vidai-puL vUrdhi
vurai-nUl, maRai
vuRaiyum kOil-varai, nEr
karumam-azhippu, aLippu,
kaiyadhu-vEal,nEami
vuruvam-eri, kAr 
mEani vonRu"

Now for the meanings:
aran , nAranan-nAmam ; The names of two entities- siva and vishNU;
An vidai -puL -vUrdhi=The vehicles of these two= The buffalo (whose nature is 
thamas) for shivA and GarudA for vishNu.
vurai nUl= The basic scriptural doctrine is man-made books for shivA and vedhas 
for Lord vishNU
vuRaiyum kOil= The abode of shiva is varai= The rough mountains and the abode 
of Lord vishNU is thirupARkadal
karumam= the role of shivA is destroying whereas the role of Lord vishNu is 
protection and blessing;
kaiadhu = the wepaon in the hand for shivA is vEal i.e. sUlAyudham whereas for 
Lord vishNu it is 'nEami' sakkaram
vuruvam= The physique is like fire-kAlAgni- whereas it is like kAr- like the 
blessing cloud for LOrd vishNu
mEani vonRu 
However, there is only on body i.e sriman nArAyanA is having not only shivA but 
one and all as His sharEram -body.

Here combinations are neither noun following the verbs or the tense but a 
combination of nouns of two entities followed by their characteristics 
respectively and final punch is by combing them both in the words
mEani onRu.
dhAsan
vanamamalai padmanabhan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: M.G.Vasudevan 
To: srirangasri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Cc: oppiliappan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:15 PM
Subject: [ramanuja] a special paasuram -2


Dear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer,

I was going through the mudhal thiru andhaadhi paasurams for their specialties 
[of poigai aazhvaar] as suggested by my good friend sri T.Madhavan swamy of 
triplicane. I was struck by the greatness of this wonderful paasuram no 74, 
which I want to share with you all.

[Incidentally sri madhavan swamy is also the proofreader of the 4000 
prabhandham book published by sri vara mangai naachchiyaar sabha triplicane 
chennai. This is the book, which I refer / use regularly].

First the lines of paasuram no 74. 

ERRaan puLLoornthaan eyileriththaan maarvidanthaan
neeRRaan nizhal maNi vaNNaththaan - kooRRorupaal
mangaiyaan poo magaLaan vaar sadaiyaan neeL mudiyaan
gangaiyaan neeL kazhalaan kaappu. 

As stated in this aazhvaar's thanian he is really a kavignar pOr Eru - a 
warring lion, or a warring ox - rishabham - among poets - a "poet par 
excellence". These words aptly and fully describe the marvel in this paasuram. 
Now let us go into the details how this verse is great.

1. In the first line, there are four words, fours past tense verbs - vinaich 
choRkaL. In the next three lines four pairs of nouns are given [ezhuvaai]. 
[Just to recall, in the previous post on the special paasuram it was first two 
lines nouns and second two lines verbs]. Here the same is in reverse order.

The order of giving four verbs is another special viz. The first and third 
verbs are pertaining to sivan's actions. The second and fourth verbs are 
pertaining to naaraayaNan's actions.

Similarly the four pairs of nouns in lines 2, 3, and four are also in the same 
alternating way - first sivan, then naaraayaNan, third sivan, fourth 
naaraayaNan, and so on.

This is one specialty in the paasuram construction.

Now let us see how it is appearing actually.

Related to sivan related to naaraayaNan
verbs
ERRaan puLLoornthaan 
eyileriththaan maarvidanthaan

nouns
neeRRaan nizhal maNi vaNNaththaan 
kooRRorupaal mangaiyaan poo magaLaan 
vaar sadaiyaan neeL mudiyaan
gangaiyaan neeL kazhalaan 

Now mix the 2 verbs and the four nouns of sivan - you have eight sentences each 
standing on its own. Similar is for naaraayaNan.

sivan:
neeRRaan ERRaan 
neeRRaan eyileriththaan 

kooRRorupaal mangaiyaan ERRaan 
kooRRorupaal mangaiyaan eyileriththaan 

vaar sadaiyaan ERRaan 
vaar sadaiyaan eyileriththaan

gangaiyaan ERRaan 
gangaiyaan eyileriththaan

naaraayaNan:
nizhal maNi vaNNaththaan puLLoornthaan 
nizhal maNi vaNNaththaan maarvidanthaan 

poo magaLaan puLLoornthaan
poo magaLaan maarvidanthaan

neeL mudiyaan puLLoornthaan
neeL mudiyaan maarvidanthaan

neeL kazhalaan puLLoornthaan
neeL kazhalaan maarvidanthaan

2. Coming to the second specialty in the paasuram construction

Related to sivan related to naaraayaNan specialty in common between two

ERRaan puLLoornthaan vaahanam - vehicle 

eyileriththaan maarvidanthaan act of destruction

neeRRaan nizhal maNi vaNNaththaan colour of body

kooRRorupaal mangaiyaan poo magaLaan identity with wives

vaar sadaiyaan neeL mudiyaan hair care

gangaiyaan neeL kazhalaan body part special

How it is, we will be able to appreciate more, when we take the meaning.

Now to go for meanings: 

ERRaan - (1) sivan, (2) one who accepted, (3) one who has the ox as his 
transport vehicle - ERu +aan - ERu - the rishaBham - the kaaLai. 

puLLoornthaan - to be split as puL oornthaan - one who travels on the bird - 
puL - garudan - oornthaan - crawled - garudan does not crawl but flies - it is 
poetic license to say flying as oorthal - crawling. 

eyil eriththaan - burnt the boundary wall of thripuram - eyil means boundary 
wall - madhiL suvar.

maarvidanthaan - maarbu idanthaan - broke open the chest - ba - va 
interchanging is permitted both in tamil and sanskrit grammar.

neeRRaan - thiruneeru poosiyavan - one who adorns the sacred ashes all over his 
body and by virtue of that white colour in appearance

nizhal maNi vaNNaththaan - nizhal is shadow, mani is gem, vaNNaththaan is 
coloured person - here it means one who is dark in colourand shiny, like the 
blue jaguar.

kooRRorupaal mangaiyaan - kooru is part of the body, oru paal is one side, 
mangaiyaan is one who possess/ has the lady -full meaning - one who has the 
lady in part of his body - ardha naareesvaran. 

poo magaLaan - poo is flower, magal is daughter, magaLaan is one who owns her - 
one who owns the daughter of the flower - mahaalakshmi - born out of lotus 
flower.

vaar sadaiyaan - vaar is belt - sadai is the hairdo - one who has his hairdo in 
belt like strips.

neeL mudiyaan - one who has long hairdo.

gangaiyaan - one who supports river ganges in his head.

neeL kazhalaan - one who has very long foot - in his thrivikarama avathaaram 
lord had such a big foot that the whole world was measured with his one foot. 
Such big feeted lord.

Now go back to each of the 16-word combination above, and you will be able to 
appreciate the uniqueness in this paasuram.

3. This 'nizhal maNi vaNNaththaan' is a very special usage available here. 
Nizhal is shadow and is always dark and cool. MaNi is gem and bright in colour. 
Sri uththamoor swamy quotes nizhal mani is blue coloured gem which has blue 
cool, at the same time bright rays. Neela neeradha samaneeyan.

4. nizhal maNi vaNNaththaan' - How dark shadow and bright gem both can be 
combined. Just think of 'agalagillEn enru alarmEl mangai uRai maarba' - she is 
golden hued. She shines as a bright gem in the chest of the dark body of the 
lord. That is why this special usage of nizhal maNi vaNNaththaan. Learned 
bhagavathaas can quote availability of this particular 'special' usage in other 
paasurams.

5. This nizhal maNi vaNNaththaan' and kooRRorupaal mangaiyaan can also be 
attributed to naaraayaNan, for when she is inseparable from the chest, 
naturally she also forms part of his body - mangaikku oru kooru koduththavan 
thaanE. Then that is also another additional special point here.

Hope it is enjoyable. We will see more from mudhal thiru andhaadhi in 
subsequent post.

Dhasan

Vasudevan m.g.




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