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Srinivasan Balaji • April 7, 2003 


||Srimathe Ramanjaaya Nama: ||
Thanks for your mail regarding Nappinnai. According to you Nappinnai means nalla pinnaal or a good one who came later and you are refering to andal Vaazhiththirunaamam where Andal is being mentioned as " Perumboodhoor maamunikku pinnaanaal" and hence Andal is refered to as Nappinnai.
Andal Vaazhiththirunaamam came much later, after the period of Ramanuja and the word pinnanaal clearly mentions him to be his sister. However, Nappinnai refers to consort of Perumal. Just with pinnaanal and Pinnai we may not be connecting the two. I honestly feel that Andal and nappinnai are very different and Nappinnai is not just a replaceable position. Thanks anyway for your concern and explanation and pardon me if my argument is wrong.
Adiyen
Aravamudha Dhaasan


 Lakshmi Narasimhan  wrote:Dear All,
Adiyens 2 cents worth on this topic. I do not have much references to 
the purvacharya works and hence request your forgiveness on any 
mistakes/misinformation.

First we need to understand what NAPPINNAI means. In tamizh, this 
could be broken as NAR+PINNAI. NAR=Nalla, PINNAI=the one who came 
later i.e mostly refers to a younger sister.

"Perumbudhur Maamunikku 'Pinnanaal' vaazhiye" says the Andal 
Vazhithirunamam,

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