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KRAZYKAT
• Mon Apr 17 1995 - 15:21:52 PDT
Mani Varadarajan says :
ovaath thuyarp piRavi utpada maRRev evaiyum,
moovaath thani muthalaay moovulakum kaavalOn,
maavaagi aamaiyaay mIn aagi maanidam aam,
thEvaathi thEva perumaa Nnen_thIrththanE. 2.8.5
I was hoping someone could shed light on why aazhvaar
addresses perumaaL as his "thIrththan" in the last line.
What exactly is he saying? I don't know of any temple
where the deity is known as thIrththan, nor does it
seem particularly appropriate for the word to simply mean
the "sanctifier" or "sanctified".
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Connecting back to the "ovaath thuyarp piravi" line of thought, how about
if Nammaazhvaar is addressing Perumal as
" yen vinai thIrthanE"
or
"yen kali thIrthanE"
- in the sense of He who ended ( theerthavan ), finished the cycle
of birth, sin, death ? , rather than the sanctifier ( sanskrit 'tIrta" )
Just a thought,
Sundar
