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SrI:
SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:
Dearest all,

After all AzhwAr?s anubhavams, we have the anubhavams
of remaining two AzhwArs in this series and they have
covered more than fifty percent of the verses on
ThiruvEnkatam. They are NammAzhwAr and Thirumangai
AzhwAr. Let us enjoy Thirumangai AzhwAr first.

kalayaami kalidhvamsam kavim lOkadhivaakaram
yaSya kObi: prakaaSaabir aavidhyam niHatham thama:

I meditate on the Poet, who is like the Sun for the
whole world, to destroy the darkness of ignorance
(ajj~nAnam) with his word and who destroys the Kali
dhOsham

Emberumaanaar (Sri Ramnuja's) thaniyan

vaazhi parakaalan vaazhi kaliganRi, 
vaazhi kuRaiyaloor vaazhvEnNdhan -- vaazhiyarO
maayOnai vaaLvaliyaal manNdhirangkoL mangkaiyarkOn 
thooyOn sudarmaana vEl.

Long live Parakaalan; May He who has removed the Kali
dhOsham long live; who is staying permanently at
ThirukkuRaiyaloor long live; who showed His spear and
threatened the SarvEshwaran Lord Sriya:pathih Sriman 
Narayanan, to get upadEsam from Him straight away long
live; May this purest BhakthA, the king of Thirumangai
beings, long live! And may His lustrous sword in His
hand long live!
 
Azhvaan (KooratthAzhwAn) 's thaniyan

nenjchukku iruLkadi dheepam adangkaa nedumbiRavi,
nanjhukku nallavamudham thamizha nannool thuRaigaL,
anjukku ilakkiyam aaraNasaaram* parasamayap
panjhuk kanalin poRi parakaalan panuvalgaLE.

Thirumangai AzhwAr's works are like yamaa for the
enemies (other religions- non-believers); they are
like the lamp that removes the darkness of ignorance
(a~jnAnam); they are like the nectar (amudham) that
can change the killing fatal poison of these births
that has been going on for us, since time immemorial,
which can not be fought against with any amount of
efforts at all otherwise; They are the tamil
literature which has got yezhutthu, sol, poruL, yaappu
and aNi.  

Embaar's thaniyans 

engkaLgadhiyE! iraamaanusamuniyE!
sangkai kedutthaaNda thavaraasaa -- pongkupugazh
mangkaiyarkOn eendha maRai aayiram anaitthum
thangkum manamn Nee yenakku ththaa.

Oh Ramanuja! Our only refuge! Oh King of thapasvIs
(those who do great penance) and the Chief of
everyone! The One who removes our doubts on saasthrAs!
Please bless this lowly self, me to get to know the
entire collection of thousand pAsurams of
Thirumangaimannan, which house the Vedic truths in
full.

maalaith thaiyE vazhi paRikka vENum enRu
kOlip padhilirundha koRRavanE! - vElai
aNaitthu aruLum kaiyil adiyEn vinaiyaith
thuNitthu aruLa vENum thuNindhu.

Oh King, The One who hid behind the bushes and robbed
Sriman Narayanan! You, (who is the saviour and
protector from the onslaught and attack of other
religions with your great "vEl" (spear)), should bless
me and cut asunder my sins and karmic diseases with
your sharp spear.

However, let us enjoy his life and listing of his
wonderful prabandhams before immersing ourselves into
the verses

Thirumangai AzhwAr was the last of the Twelve AzhwArs.
[written by Sri Sadagopan Swami, New York] 

KaarthikE KrittikA Jaatham chathushkavi SikhAmaNim
ShaDprabhandha kruthaM Saarnga-mUrthim kaliyamAsrayE 

Thirumangai AzhwAr known as Kaliyan, ParakAlan was
born in Nala samvathsaram , VriscchikA Maasam ,
PourNami dinam.It was a Thursday and KritthikA
Nakshathram was in ascendance.His place of birth is
Thirukkurayaloor near ThiruvAli-Thirunahari.
His given name at birth was Neelan.He was born in
Chathurtha VarNam and he mastered svakula Vidhyai of
DhanussAsthram .With his mastery of archery and
weapons handling , he was formidable in fights. He
became a chieftain of a district in the kingdom of
ChOLAs and served the ChOLA king. He had four
ministers with the names of ThALUthuvAN , Neer-mEl 
NadappAn , Nizhalil MaRaivAn and ThOlA azhakkan .With
their help and the carrying power of his horse with
the name of AadalmA ,Neelan was able to drive away
many enemies of the ChOLA king and enjoyed a honoured
status in the ChOLA Kingdom. 

Meanwhile , in  a nearby village , there was a female
child born as BhUmyamsai in an Aambal pond ( Kumuda
saras) and a Vaisyan took that child home and adopted
it as his own.This child grew to be a beautiful maiden
named Kumudavalli. The parents were worried 
about finding a suitable bridegroom  for their
daughter. Friends of Neelan mentioned to him about the
extraordinary beauty of Kumudavalli .Neelan rushed to
the house of the parents of Kumudavalli and requested
the father to give his daughter away as his bride. The
father asked his daughter about her 
consent and she replied that any one whom she could
marry  should have VishNu Chinhams (SamAsrayaNam ),
VishNu Bhakthi and should in addiiton perform
TadhiyAraadhanams for the BhagavathAs. 

Neelan was smitten with love for Kumudavalli and
agreed to her conditions. He went to the Sannidhi of
ThirunaRayUr PerumAL and prayed for SamAsrayaNa
BhAgyam. ThirunaRayUr Nampi consented and pressed the
disc and conch on the shoulders of Neelan , presented
ThirumaNN Kaappu and initiated Neelan into the meaning
of Thirumanthiram . All of these happenings 
were not visible to the archakAs and the sEvArthis of 
ThirunarayUr Nampi . Neelan was blessed to receive 
SamAsrayaNam from the very hands of the Lord and 
returned home as a Sri VishNavan , wedded Kumudavalli
and began the TadhiyArAdhana kaimkaryams .

The spies of ChOLa RaajA reported that Neelan was 
spending a lot of the revenues due to the king in
TadhiyArAdhanams .The angry king ordered his soldiers
to capture Neelan and bring him to the  court.
Thirumangai Mannan confronted the soldiers sent by the
king and drove them away .The king himself came to
fight Thirumangai Mannan and prooved to be no match
for his heroic commander . The king
also had to withdraw from the battle . The king
however tricked  Thirumangai with conciliatory words
and had him imprisoned.

Thirumangai was very sad over the interruption to his
TadhiyArAdhana Kaimkaryam and during his dream inside 
the prison , Lord VaradarAjA appeared before him and 
instructed him to come to Kaanchi to recover buried 
treasure close to His temple and gain his release from
the prison. 

Next Morning , Thirumangai proceeded to Kaanchi with
a court servant , worshipped Lord VaradarAjan and dug
up the treasure  pointed out by the Lord . He returned
the funds used from the treasury of the king for
TadhiyArAdhanams and used the rest of the funds for
the future Kaimkaryam . 

Soon the extra funds from Kaanchi were used up and 
Thirumangai had shortage of funds to carry on his
TadhiyArAdhanam . With the counsel of the ministers
(asAdhubhyO arTam aadhAya Saadhubhyas sampracchathi),
Thirumangai appropriated funds from avaishNavAs and
fed the VaishNavAs.Thirumangai did not touch any
VaishNava dhanam .One day , Thirumangai did not
encounter any avaishNavAs to gather money for 
the TadhiyArAdhanam and was very sad about 
the interruption to his Kaimkaryam. 

The dhivya Dampathis saw the plight of their
Bhakthan and appeared before him as a rich avaishNava,
newly-wedded  couple. Thirumangai was happy to see
them adorned with rich jewelery and ornaments. He
robbed them and put all his plunderings in a box and
tried to lift that box so he can go back to his
village . Thirumangai could not lift that box ,
however much he tried. He was angry and thought that
the bridegroom had cast a spell that made the box
un-liftable. Thirumangai drew his sword and demanded
that the bridegroom reveal to him the manthram
that he (the Bridegroom) had used to make that box 
super heavy. The bridegroom laughed and addressed
Thirumangai as " Namm KaliyA " and asked Kaliyan to
come closer so that he can repeat the manthram in to
Kaliyan's ears. Lord Sriman NaarAyaNa recited the
Moola Manthram in the ears of Kaliyan and blessed him
with His Sevai with MahA Lakshmi and His parijanams.
Thirumangai Mannan became at that instant Thirumangai
AzhwAr and performed  SaraNAgathi at the sacred feet
of the Dhivya dampathis.

The AanandhAnubhava PravAham of Thirumangai found its 
release through Six Prabhandhams , which serve as 
the six angams for the four Tamizh vedams of Swamy 
NammAzhwAr .These Six prabhandhams set in the four
modes of poetry known as Aasu, Chithram, Madhuram and
Vistharam and earned him the name of Naalu Kavi
perumAL.

These six prabhandhams extolling Bhagavath
GuNAnubhavam, SaraNAgathi and Bhagavath-BhAgavatha
kaimkaryams are:

(1)Periya Thirumozhi 
(2) ThirukkuRunthANDakam 
(3)ThirunedumthANDakam 
4) ThiruvEzhukkURRirukkai 
(5) SiRiya Thiumadal and
(6) Periya Thirumadal.

Thirumangai AzhwAr performed MangaLAsAsanam for 
86 of the 108 dhivya dEsams . He performed many 
kaimkaryams such as the building of the ramparts 
for the Srirangam temple, construction of the
dasAvathAra sannidhi at Srirangam and the creation
of the Thiruadhyayana Uthsavam at Srirangam .
He ascended to parama Padham from the dhivya desam 
of ThirukkuRunkudi.

Let us enjoy his verses from morrow... 
Thirumangai AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLE SaraNam
Regards
Namo narayana
dAsan


                
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