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Sri:
Srimathe Ramanujaya nama:

Dear devotees,
Another incidence of Bhattar registered in my mind.
Bhattar must have been hardly 3/4 years old and father Sri 
kUraththAzhvAn sent bhattar to veda class. First day,bhattar went and 
then the second day AzhvAn saw bhattar playing with other kids 
instead of attending the veda class. When AshvAn asked bhattar "why 
didn't you attend the veda class?", bhattar replied:"They chant the 
same thing again and again and it is very boring. That's why I didn't 
go". So,AzhvAn said,"if that be the case,why don't you recite what 
they taught you yesterday?" Bhattar,to AzhvAn's amazement, also 
recited without making any mistakes in intonation. 

AzhvAn and ANdAL decided taht it's better not to send 
bhattar to veda class! If bhattar goes at this rate,he will not spare 
anyone in scholarly debates and conversation at this young age 
itself:-) So let him play freely and we can send him to veda class 
later. It's amazing and awesome how bhattar used to come up with 
instantaneous and extempore anecdotes in the form of beautiful 
samskrt slokas. It looks like bhattar had answers even before the 
question was sown in the mind! When we read bhattar's vaibhavam,we 
find it very hilarious yet endowed with knowledge and devotion. If 
bhattar could beat even the Lord of Arangam in conversation,then the 
rest are all a "piece of cake" for him.

AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE sharaNam
NC Nappinnai





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