Full Series<\/a><\/p>\n On a beautiful Sunday morning, ANdAL pAtti sits in the pyol (thiNNai – veranda) outside her house and makes garland for perumAL. vyAsa and parAsara come and sit on the pyol next to ANdAL pAtti . They both watch ANdAL pAtti curiously.<\/p>\n vyAsa: What are you doing pAtti?<\/p>\n ANdAL pAtti: Making a garland for perumAL<\/a>, that reminds me of a couple of AzhwArs<\/a>? Would you like to hear about one of them now?<\/p>\n parAsara: Oh sure pAtti. We are eagerly waiting for that.<\/p>\n ANdAL pAtti: That\u2019s like my boy. Then let me tell you about periyAzhwAr<\/a>. He was born in Ani month swAthi nakshathram in srIvillipuththUr<\/a>. He was also called as pattarpirAn. He used to make garlands for vatapathrasAyi emperumAn<\/a>. One fine day, the king who ruled the pAndiyan kingdom, threw open a challenge to the scholars. He announced that he will award a bag full of gold coins to anyone who could establish who is the supreme god.<\/p>\n vyAsa: That would have been very difficult, isn\u2019t it pAtti?<\/p>\n ANdAL pAtti: It wasn\u2019t so for periyAzhwAr<\/a>. Due to his bhakthi and the mercy of perumAL<\/a>, he went to the king\u2019s court and established that perumAL<\/a> is the almighty through vEdham. The king was so happy that he gave periyAzhwAr<\/a> the prize money and sent him through the streets of Madurai on a royal elephant.<\/p>\n parAsara : That would have been a sight to watch, pAtti.<\/p>\n ANdAL pAtti: Yes parAsara, that was. And that is why perumAL<\/a> himself came down from paramapadham riding his garuda. Even though periyAzhwAr<\/a> was riding on top of an elephant, he was ever so humble and was worried about the safety of perumAL<\/a>. So he sang thiruppallANdu to ensure perumAL<\/a> is protected. That\u2019s how he came to be known as periyAzhwAr<\/a>. He also sang periyAzhwAr thirumozhi.<\/p>\n vyAsa: Oh. Yes pAtti – pallANdu pallANdu sounds familiar. That is what is recited everyday in the beginning. We have heard it in the temple.<\/p>\n ANdAL pAtti. Yes, you are right vyAsa. periyAzhwAr<\/a>‘s thiruppallANdu is always recited in the beginning and the end too.<\/p>\n parAsara: That\u2019s nice pAtti. We will also learn it and start reciting it in front of perumAL<\/a>.<\/p>\n ANdAL pAtti: I\u2019m sure, you will start doing that very soon. By the way, he was also the father of ANdAL<\/a>, the one who sang the most popular thiruppAvai<\/a>. Will tell you more about ANdAL<\/a> later, come let\u2019s go and offer the garland to perumAL<\/a>.<\/p>\n ANdAL pAtti finishes making the garland and starts towards srI ranganAthan<\/a> temple along with vyAsa and parAsara to offer it to perumAL<\/a>.<\/p>\n Author: jayakrishNan rAmAnuja dAsan. Edited by: sArathy rAmanuja dAsan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Previous Article Full Series On a beautiful Sunday morning, ANdAL pAtti sits in the pyol (thiNNai – veranda) outside her house and makes garland for perumAL. vyAsa and parAsara come and sit on the pyol next to ANdAL pAtti . They both watch ANdAL pAtti … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginners-guide","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"periyazhvar\"](\"https:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/periyazhvar.jpg\")
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