I am a new member of the group, probably the latest. The two queries of "vigsah"are readily answerable: 1.Sri PeriyavAchchan Pillai's pAchurappaDi rAmAyaNam is neither a part of Naalaayira Divya Prabandham nor an appendix to it. It is a highly appreciable later work based on Prabandham. It belongs to the post-Ramanuja period. All parts of Naalaayira divya prabandham belong to earlier centuries. 2.There are two versions in counting the number of verses in Divya prabandham. Yes, in one of them the total number falls short of 4000 as rightly observed in the query. In another version mentioned in PrabandhasAram of Vedanta desikar , there are exactly 4000. The main difference in counting is due to the two 'Madal's. In the first version, the entire madal is a single verse.(arguably so).There are two such. In the second version the madals are conveniently divided into smaller pieces:40 in one and 78 in the other. Another reason for the difference in the total count is due to the fact that SriRamanujaNorrantAdi is added in the second version only. 3.There have been debates and controversies over this. But we need not be too much bothered about these minor points. Yours Sincerely,Dasan V.Kannan. On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, vigsah@xxxx wrote: > Namaskarams and Shri Rama Jayam, > > I had some queries on the Divya Prabandam. Firstly, does perivAccAn piLLai's > "divya prabanda pAShura rAmAyaNa" or better known as "pAShurappaDi rAmAyaNam" > belong in the prabandam or is it an extension of the prabandam (i.e. > anubandam???) > > Secondly, I attended a lecdem on the Divya Prabadam during the Music Academy > of Madras annual music conferences, and the commentator mentioned that in > fact the prabandam was named "nAlAyira divya prabandam" from purposes of > convenience but in fact it totaled up to only about 3,7XX number of pAShurams. > > Appreciate it if someone could verify this. > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > Srirangasri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > >
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