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                                                                             Sri Parthasarathi thunai

                                                                        Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

                                                                        Sri Vara Vara MunayE Namaha

                                                                    Sri VanAchala mahA munayE Namaha

                                                           SrisailEsa dayA pAthram deebhakthyAdhi gunArnavam

                                                          Yateendra pravanam vandhE ramya jAmataram muni

                                                          RamyajAmatru yOgeendra pAdha rEkhA mayam sadhA

                                                          thathAyath thAthma sadhdhAthim rAmAnuja munim bhajE

                                                          “VaramangA mahAdEvi gaganAchala yOginaha:

                                                           parAnu bhava bhOdhAya suprabhAdham thanOthviha”

 As per the thiruvullam(desire) of Periya perumal, Lord RanganAtha thiruanandAzhvan took one more avatAram as Azhagiya manavAla perumal nAyanar to complete the jobs left over in his previous avatAram as Sri Ramanuja.  As NayanAr grew up as sakala sAstra vithpannar, to help him out in his venture to uplift the jeevatmas, emperuman desired to bless him with a sath shisya.  Once again thiruanandAzhvAn himself took another avatAram as a shisya to help the acharya.

 The shisya was born in one of the sacrad places where number of great scholars lived as per alwar’s paasurams, “thEru jnAnaththavar vEda vElviyarAch sirivara mangala nagar” and “SenthozhilAlar vEda vElviyarA sirivara mangala nagar” and added a lot of credit to the divine kshEtram.  In such a divine place, in a very orthodox SriVaishnava family, whose ancestors where under the service of emperuman generation after generations (“EzhAtkAlum puram thozhAdhu kudi kudi vandhu At seibhavargal”), lived a great scholar, Sri RangAchariyAr, Who was respected by all for his jnAnam and who was a shisya of ThiruvAimozhi pillai.  Sri RangAchariyar was blessed with poorna lakshmi katAksham and Jnana, bhakthi and vairAkhyam. 

 To this great scholar a son was born in Rakthashi samvatsara, kanyA mAsam, punarvasu nakshatram, as a amsa and shisya of Azhagiya manavAla perumAl nAyanAr.  This avatara was like nara avatAra as a shisya to nArAyana avatara (both were bhagavat avatarams); madhurakavigal avatAram to NammAzhvar (both were alwars); MudaliyAndAn avatara as a amsa of bhagavat ramanuja (acharya avatars); this avatar as a amsa of Azhagiya manavAla perumal nAyanAr.  Among the three sons of RangAchariyar he was the second son.  Pleased with the beauty of the child’s thirumEni (body), the child was named Azhagiya varadar.  Scholars predicted the child to be an amsAvatAram, a great jnAni and a ardent disciple.   Sri RangAchariyar, himself realized his second son to be a special child and hence regarded him very dear to him.  He did all the ceremonies that had to be done to his sons in appropriate times.  The sons were taught veda and Vedanta in the appropriate ages.

 Azhagiya varadar, was very intelligent and grasped any lesson the very first time and learnt everything in a very short period of time.  Deciding to do panchasamskAram to his son under his acharya, Sri RangAchariyar proceeded towards Alwar thirunagari along with his sons.

 (To be continued)

 Alwar EmperumAnAr jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

 Adiyen Ramanuja dAsee

Sumithra Varadarajan