Full Series<\/a><\/p>\n vyAsa and parAsara enter ANdAL pAtti’s home along with their friend aththuzhAy. ANdAL pAtti welcomes them with prasAdham in her hands.<\/p>\n pAtti : Welcome aththuzhAy! Here wash your hands and feet and take this prasadam. Today is uthrAdam, the thirunakshathram of \u00a0ALavandhAr<\/a>.<\/p>\n parAsara : pAtti, last time you said you will tell us the about yamunaiththuRaivar<\/a>, remember?<\/p>\n pAtti : Yes! I remember and I’m happy that you too remember and want to know about our great AchArya. It is his thirunakshathram today. Quite the right time to talk about his glories.<\/p>\n vyAsa : pAtti, but did you not say it was ALavandhAr’s thirunakshathram?<\/p>\n ALavandhAr \u2013 kAttu mannAr kOyil<\/p>\n pAtti : Yes. yamunaiththuRaivar who was born in kAttu mannAr kOyil later became popularly known as ALavandhAr. He was born as the son of ISvara muni and the grand son of \u00a0nAthamunigaL<\/a>. He studied under mahAbhashya bhattar. There is a very interesting story about how he came to be hailed as ALavandhAr. Those days pandits had to pay taxes to the chief pandit. AkkiyAzhwAn, the rAja purOhithar sends his representatives to all pandits and asks them to pay taxes to him. mahAbhAshya bhattar becomes worried and \u00a0yamunaiththuRaivar says that he will take care. He sends a SlOkam which says \u201che will destroy the poets who look for cheap publicity\u201d. Seeing this AkkiyAzhwAn gets angry and sends his soldiers to bring yamunaiththuRaivar to the king\u2019s court. yamunaiththuRaivar tells them that he will come only if he was offered proper respects. So, king sends him a palanquin and yamunaiththuRaivar visits the court.\u00a0While the debate is about to start, the queen tells the king that she is sure that yamunaiththuRaivar will win and if he loses, she will become a servant of the king. And the king was confident that AkkiyAzhwAn will win and he says if yamunaithuRairvar wins, he will give half the kingdom to him. Finally, with great valor and knowledge, yamunaiththuRaivar won the debate against AkkiyAzhwAn. AkkiyAzhwAn becomes so impressed that he too becomes a disciple of yamunaiththuRaivar. The queen gives him the name \u201cALavandhAr\u201d – one who came to protect her \u2013 had he not won, she would have become a servant and so she too\u00a0becomes his Sishyai. He also gets half the kingdom as promised by the king.<\/p>\n vyAsa : pAtti, if yamunaiththuRaivar got half the kingdom, he must have been ruling the kingdom. How did he get into our sampradAyam?<\/p>\n aththuzhAy : He was brought into our sampradAyam by \u00a0maNakkAl nambi<\/a> who was the disciple of \u00a0uyyakkoNdAr<\/a>. According to the instructions of \u00a0uyyakkoNdAr, maNakkAl nambi took the initiative to bring ALavandhAr to the sampradhAyam.<\/p>\n pAtti : That is exactly right and wonderful aththuzhAy! How did you know about this?<\/p>\n aththuzhAy: My mother also tells me stories about our AchAryas and perumAL.<\/p>\n pAtti : ALavandhAr is the great AchAryan who brought \u00a0SrI rAmAnuja<\/a> to the sampradhAyam with lord dhEvap perumAL’s blessings.<\/p>\n parAsara : But pAtti, how did dhEvap perumAL help ALavandhAr?<\/p>\n pAtti : It was in kAnchipuram, that ALavandhAr saw iLaiyAzhwAr <\/a>who was yet to become rAmAnuja, in varadharAjap perumAL temple.\u00a0iLaiyAzhwAr was learning from his guru yAdhava prakASa. ALavandhAr prays to dhEvap perumAL to make iLaiyAzhwAr the next leader of the sampradhAyam. Thus it was dhEvap perumAL who nurtured and raised iLaiyAzhwAr <\/a>like a mother would do to her child and it was this great \u00a0ALavandhAr who showered his blessings on iLaiyAzhwAr who later goes on to do greatest of great kainkaryams for the sampradhAyam. ALavandhAr also entrusts thirukkachchi nambi<\/a> to guide iLaiyAzhwAr as needed. Remember\u00a0thirukkachchi nambi?<\/p>\n vyAsa : Yes pAtti, he is the one who does thiruvAlavatta (fan) kainkaryam to dhEvap perumal and also talks with dhEvap perumAl and thAyAr. How nice it would be if we could also talk to perumAL like thirukkachchi nambi? So did ALavandhAr and iLaiyAzhwAr meet? Did ALavandhAr accept iLaiyAzhwAr\u00a0as his Sishya?<\/p>\n pAtti : Unfortunately no! Before iLaiyAzhwAr\u00a0could come to SrIrangam to become ALavandhAr’s disciple, ALavandhAr left this world reached paramapadham. They could not meet each other but iLaiyAzhwAr\u00a0promises to fulfill ALavandhAr ‘s wishes. Next time, when I meet you kids, I will tell you all about how \u00a0periya nambi<\/a>, one of the many disciples of \u00a0ALavandhAr became iLaiyAzhwAr’s achArya and guided him throughout. AlavndhAr had numerous disciples and all of them worked\u00a0together to bring iLaiyAzhwAr to the sampradAyam. Apart from periya nambi,\u00a0periya thirumalai nambi<\/a>, thirukkOshtiyur nambi<\/a>, thirumAlai AndAn<\/a>, mARanEri nambi<\/a>, thirukkachchi nambi<\/a>, thiruvarangap perumAL araiya<\/a>r\u00a0and many others were \u00a0ALavandhAr’s shishyas.<\/p>\n vyAsa , parAsara and aththuzhAy : It was very interesting pAtti. Next time, please tell us about periya nambi and iLaiyAzhwAr.<\/p>\n pAtti : I will be very happy to tell it but now it’s getting very dark outside. Go to your home children.<\/p>\n The children leave happily to their homes thinking about ALavandhAr.<\/p>\n adiyEn Janaki rAmAnuja dAsi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Previous Article Full Series vyAsa and parAsara enter ANdAL pAtti’s home along with their friend aththuzhAy. ANdAL pAtti welcomes them with prasAdham in her hands. pAtti : Welcome aththuzhAy! Here wash your hands and feet and take this prasadam. 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