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--- "Sudarshan M.K." <sampathkumar_2000@xxxx> wrote:
> To: tiruvengadam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: "Sudarshan M.K." <sampathkumar_2000@xxxx>
> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 09:26:40 -0000
> Reply-to: tiruvengadam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [tiruvengadam] "tirunakshatram" of Nrsimhan & Krishna &
> the AzhwAr
> 
> 
> Dear friends,
> 
> I have a trivial doubt which may please be clarified by the 
> kind and learned ones in the group, if possible.
> 
> The 'purAna' tells us that the 'tirunakshatram' (natal asterism) of
> Lakshminrsimhan and Krishna is "svAti" and "rohini" respectively.
> 
> But 'peria-AzhwAr' in his 'tiruppallAndu', in Stanza 6, through the
> line:
> 
> 'tiruvOna-tiruvizhavil anthiyam pOdhil ariyuru-Agi ariyai 
> azhittavanai...'
> 
> seems to suggest that Lord Nrsimhan's avatAra occured under the 
> asterism of "tiruvOnam".
> 
> Similarly, in the 2nd hymn of the 'peria-azhwAr tirumOzhi'
> beginning with the line "vanna madangal..." where the birth of
Krishna is celebrated, the AzhwAr in the 3rd stanza sings:
> 
> "... aaN OppAr ivan nEr illai kAn, tiruvONatthAn ulagu-AllUm 
> enbArgaLE".
> 
> In the above line too, the AzhwAr seems to suggest that the child 
> Krishna was born under the asterism of "tiruvOnam" rather than 
> 'rohini', as generally believed.
> 
> AdiyEN would like to know why the AzhwAr thought it fit to 
> deliberately introduce an element of inaccuracy in his poetic
> lines. It does heighten the contextual effect, no doubt, especially
since we know that Sriman Narayana's asterism is believed to be
'tiruvOnam' and it is He that avatars as Nrsimha and Krishna.
Nevertheless, there must be some insightful 'vyAkhyAna' behind this
"poetic anomaly" of peria-AzhwAr?

Can anyone please explain?
Thanks and regards,

dAsan,
Sudarshan



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