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Tomorrow (Nov 12th) is Thirunakshatram of Sri Andikkadu swami (sri
VangIpuram swami).
(aippasi mrugasheersham). On the eve of this auspicious day let us learn a
bit about this
acharya.

We are all aware that after Sri Bhagavad Ramanuja our Guru parampara is
branched
out widely with numerous acharyas. This is further widened after Swami
desika and 
we have the beginning of Sri Parakala mutt, Sri Ahobila mutt and Sri
Vanamamalai 
mutt etc (to name a few). The swayamacharya parampara is also vast and we
have lots
and lots of great acharyas and from Sri Thirukkudanthai desikan swami the
munitraya
sampradayam is beginning. The guruparampara lineage of Sri Uttamoor swami is
given below.
Please note that this is only a partial list and NOT all the acharayas are
listed here
for the sake of brevity.

(from the most recent acharya)

SrI Uttamoor swami
        |
        |
SrI Kozhiyalam swami
        |
        |
SrI Thiruppathi Swami  Thiruvahendrapuram srinivasa   Echchampadi satakopa
        |                       ramanuja muni swami             swami
        |                               |                                 |
        |----------------------------------------------------------- (and
others)  
        |
SrI KethANdipatti Swami
        |
        |       
SrI Andikkaattu swami  EyyuNNi Srinivasa ramanuja  Navalpakkam Annarya maha
(VangIpuram Swami)            swami                              desikan
        |                              |
|
        |--------------------------------------------------------
        |
SrI Vazhuththur Vedanta Srinivasa muni swami Sri Seeyalam rangantha muni
swami
 Ramanuja Swami                 |                             |
        |                             |                       |
        |------------------------------------------------
        |
SrI Thirukundhai Desikan
        |
        |
SrI Saakshaat swami
        |
        |
Sri Upanishat Bhashyakarar
        |
        |
Earlier acharyas


SrI ANdikkAttu svamI

This swami was born in a village called ANdikkAdu, which is in southern part
of Tamil Nadu.
He was born in aippasi tamil month in mrugaseersha nakshatra in the
illustrous vangIpuram 
bharatwaja gotram. His father's name was Sri Raghurama dIxithar. SrI
andikkadu swami is 
the disciple of illustrous vazhutthur Sri Vedanta Ramanuja maha desikan
(Vazhutthur swami).
There were two other disciples for Vazhutthur swami and they are Srimad
Annarya maha 
desikan and ViLAkkudi EyuNNi Srinivasa ramanuja swami.

SrI VangIpuram swami was a wealthy person. It seems that he had lots of cows
in his
house and he used to host the yatrikas by providing lots of milk,curd and
butter etc. 
Once a great mahan came to this village along with his other sishyas enroute
their 
divya desa yatra to Dhanushkoti, ThiruppullaNi. Our swami was very pleased
to conduct
grand DhathIyaradhanam for the group and when they are about to leave, swami
has 
provided milk curd and butter in huge mud pots for their usage in their
yatra. He 
however made one request that the contents of the pots can be used as they
like but 
the pots must be returned to him. The visiting mahan was indeed surprised at
this 
request and enquired, " when you are providing so much of milk and curd, why
are you
so particular about the old, used pots?" " Because, unless the pots are used
one, 
the curd won't be nice" pat came reply. 

SrI VangIpuram swami felt that the propagation of the sampradaya should be
best
done by his acharya Sri Vazhutthur swami. Due to this reason he did not
travel 
far and wide but initiated and taught grantas to his disciples from his
place only. 
Later on, he gave up all the wealth and took up sanyasa. SrI VangIpuram
swami is 
glorified as apara avatara of Sri Vazhutthur swami and he got the same name
as his 
acharya ie,"Sri Vedanta Ramanuja swami" after entering into sanyasa ashrama.

SrI VangIpuram swami came to Thiruvahendra puram at the request of another
great 
mahan Sri Srinivasacharya (who is the elder brother of Echchampadi advocate 
Sri T E Shatakopachaiar's grand father). SrI Srinivasacharya swami came to
Srirangam,
where our vangipuram swami was giving kalekshpams and he was greatly
impressed at 
the oratal skills of Vangipuram swami. He became sishya of Vangipuram swami
and 
persuaded many of his relatives and friends to became his disciples. SrI
Vangipuram
swami lived at Thiruvahendrapuram for a long time and this ashramam where he
lived
is still being remembered as "Swami ashramam".

It is told that only because of Sri Vangipuram swami the commentries of Sri
Sakshaat
 swami and Sri Thirukkudanthai desikan for Bhagavad vishayam and Srimad
Rahasya 
traya saram respectively came to light and this indeed is a bhagavad
sankalpam. 
Sri Annarya maha desikan had great respect for this swami. Sri VangIpuram
swami's
 disciple was famous KEthandippatti swami.

KEthaandippatti swami and VangIpuram swami:

Sri Lakshmipura chakravarti swami (kethandippatti swami) was learning Srimad
Geetha
bhasyam from Sri Nallan swami at Kethandippatti. At the time of conclusion
of this 
granta, Sri nallan swami had a dream that Sri Kethandippatti swami should be
sent to 
Sri Andikkattu swami (vangipuram swami) for further kalekshpams. Sri
Kethandippatti 
swami took the blessings of Sri Nallan swami and came to Thiruvahendra
puram, where 
Sri Vangipuram swami was camping and delivering kalekshpams.

Sri VangIpuram swami was also a scholar in astorlogy. He told the goshti one
day that, 
" many sishyas have learnt from me till now and see one day a bright sishya
will come
from western side and he will learn from me and thru him our sampradayam
will grow multifold"

Sri Lakshmipura chakravarthi swami came to Sri Vangipuram swami as per the
order of 
sri nallan swami and prostrated before Sri Vangipuram swami. On looking this
sishya
every one realisesd that he is the sishya Sri Vangipuram swami was referring
to. 
Sri Vangipuram swami was impressed at the brilliance of Sri Lakshimipura
chakravarti
swami and taught him all the grantas and sastras. He also did bhara
samarpanam for 
him. Sri Vangipuram swami in his old age used to instruct Sri Kethandippatti
swami to
do pravachanam on his behalf and used to enjoy the brilliance of Sri
Kethandippatti swami.

Unquote:

adiyen is indeed blessed to be born in the lineage of Sri Vangipuram swami. 
Our ancestors lived in this hamlet which is near Pattukkottai in Thanjavour 
district till the year 2000. My father was the last one to leave the
andikkadu 
village to settle down in Madras.

adiyen will be greatful if anyone can provide taniyan of this acharya and
any
additional information including a photo/painting of Sri Andikkadu swami.

(Source: Write up by Sri Uttamoor swamy in an article titled
"Guruparampariyil sila 
mahAnkaLin chariththira churukkam" in Tamil).
adiyen is thankful to Sri Anand Karalappakkam swami for providing this
article.
adiyen has freely translated the tamil article and please pardon for any
errors.

regards

adiyen dasan

VangIpuram R. Venkataraghava dasan.




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