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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