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It is needless to add that Sri Parthasarathy Perumal is also visiting Mylapore 
once a year on the Ekatuthangal Day and honour Sri Peyazhwar.  

sumithra varadarajan <sumivaradan@xxxx> wrote:
Sri Parthasarathi thunai

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha

Sri VanAchala mahA munayE Namaha

 

Wow! What a wonderful place we wonder as we walk down the big, colourful and 
brightly lighted road on the beach shore in chennai. The beach road is being 
beautified each day as a part of the singara chennai project. But will the 
natural beauty which emperuman blessed on this place return back? Today 
artificially the road is lighted with number of colourful lamps. But once, this 
very place was lighted naturally not with electrical lamps but?...  

 

Thanks to peyazhvar who has visualized the same in his paasuram.

 

?vandhudaiththa veNthiraigal sempavalam veNmuththam

andhivilakkum ani vilakkAm ? endhai

oruvalli thAmaraiyAl ondriya seer mArvan

thiruvallikeniyAn sendru?

(moondrAm thiruvandhAdhi-16)

 

Meaning: The Sea was so rich that in those days the waves used to bring toshore 
very precious jems like corals and pearls. The light of the dusk (moonlight) 
falls on these jems at the shore and it glows with beautiful colours. Amidst 
this beautiful scenary, we are able to have darshan of the emperuman, Sri 
Parthasarathi on whose chest rests the divine mother who stays always on top of 
a lotus. The scenary itself has become a jewel decorating the lord. To have 
this beautiful site at once go to thiruvallikeni (this mangalasasanam can be 
considered to be for mannathan, Sri ranganathan who came to thiruvallikeni for 
the very purpose of marrying the divine mother of this place, Sri vedavalli 
thayar who was born in the allikeni-lilly pond, kairaveni pushkarini).  

 

?Oruvalli thAmaraiyal ondriya seer mArvan? is Srinivasan (?agalagillEn eraiyum 
endru alarmEl mangai urai mArvan?) reminding us that only thatlord on the 
thirumala hills is now glowing in thiruvallikeni as Venkata Krishnan (according 
to the stala puranam of brindaranya kshetram)

 

Peyazhvar, is the third among the mudal Azhvars. He was the azhvar who gotthe 
darshan of emperuman along with piratti due to the light lighted by the first 
two Azhvars and sang, ?thirukkandEn ponmEni kandEn?. Peyazhvarhas always got a 
special affection towards piratti and that is why he has started and ended his 
prabhandam, moondram thiruvandhAdhi with ?thiru? not seen in any other azhvar?s 
prabhandams. Peyazhvar was born in a wellin thirumayilai (some say it to be the 
today?s mylapore whereas some sayit to be thiruvallikeni itself as 
thiruvallikeni was part of mayilai in those days as per thirumangai mannan?s 
paasuram ?mAda mAmayilai thiruvallikeni kandEnE?).  

 

In thiruvallikeni, there is a separate street called the ?peyazhvar Koil 
Street? which hosts a separate sannadhi for peyazhvar with the well in which he 
is supposed to have taken avataram. Special 10-day utsavam is celebrated for 
peyazhvar during the iypasi month. On the sattrumarai day, Sri Parthasarathi 
himself visits the sannadhi and undergoes thirumanjanam with peyazhvar 
(generally all other Azhvars and acharyas undergo thirumanjanam only in the 
mandapam in front of the main sannadhi) and in the evening Peyazhvar comes in 
purappadu in front of Parthasarathi around the four mada veedhis.  

 

Leaving what happens during the iypasi month, there is one special day in 
puratasi when peyazhvar from ?Adikesava perumal sannadhi, mylapore? comes to 
thiruvallikeni to do mangalasasanams to all the emperumans over here. This 
practice has been abandoned for quite a long duration but has been revived due 
to the continued efforts of some bhagavatas for the past 3 or 4 years. This 
divine day happens to be 22nd sept.(Monday), this year. It is also said by some 
elders that in those days even thirumazhisai pirAn from thirumazhisai used to 
visit thiruvallikeni once in a year for mangalasasanamthat has also been 
abandoned due to practical difficulties.

 

On this day, azhvar will start from mylapore around 2.00 or 3.00 in the evening 
and will reach thiruvallikeni by 5.00 or 5.30. Azhvar will be first welcomed by 
the divine padhukai of emperuman, the Sri sadagopan at the entrance of the mada 
veedhi (thulasinga perumal koil street) with respective honours. And then 
azhvar will proceed to do mangalasasanams to the emperuman?s inside the temple. 
Then Parthasarathi emperuman and peyazhvar will undergo alankaram. Then 
peyazhvar enjoys the purappadu along with Sri Parthasarathi around the mada 
veedhis of thiruvallikeni (as it is ekadasi on thisday, Parthasarathi undergoes 
Periya mada veedhi purappadu). Peyazhvar?s moondrAm thiruvandhAdhi is recited 
by the ghosti during the veedhi purappadu. Peyazhvar joins the ghosti in such a 
way that we will consider azhvar to be in vibhava dasai and not as an archai. 
After reaching the temple, Parthasarathi gives piriyA vidai (bids goodbye) to 
peyazhvar who starts his journey back with ultimate
grief to take leave from parthasarathi emperuman.  

 

It is really a great day. It is adiyen?s humble request to all bhagavatas in 
chennai to make it up to the wonderful occasion and get blessed with the divine 
grace of peyazhvar and Parthasarathi emperuman. 

 

Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 

Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee,

Sumithra Varadarajan

 

 



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