AavaNi VisAkam : Unique(TOP) Divya Desam : Silver Mantapam-Part 1
From the Bhakti List Archives
• August 28, 1998
Dear BhakthAs of Sriman NaarAyaNA : Before I write an article on the greatness ( #1 Status ) of Thiru ViNNagar , as preface , I want to refer to the extraordinary roving Divya Desam at the Ahobila Matam Jeeyar"s aasthAnam . Here presides one of the nine uthsava mUrthys of Ahobila KshEthram *, MaalOlan , who jumped into the hands of the Jeeyar whom he had just initiated into SanyAsa Asramam on a Purattasi Sukla Paksha Panchami day of a BahudAnya year ( 1398 AD). Sri Lakshmi Narasimhan *********************** Our MaalOlan* sits on a rathna dOlai in the middle of that silver mantapam with abhaya hastham in right hand and embracing His dear consort , Mahaa Lakshmi with His left hand . On His other two hands are Sudarsanam and Paanchajanyam. He rushed so fast to accompany the Jeeyar on the yAthrAs to bless His bhaktha kOtis that he had time only to wear the sandal on his right foot alone . He left the left foot sandal behind and did not wait for his servants to bring it to Him from the inner chambers . KrishNA archA mUrhtys ********************** Our MalOlan of Silver Mantapam prsides over a sathas consisting of KrishNan* , who came crawling across the water of a lake in KarnAtakA , when he saw AchArya RaamAnuja entering that lake for anushtAnam . There is thus KrishNan , who represents ArchAvathAra mUrthys of pancha KrishNa kshEthrams* of Tamil Naadu ( ThirukkaNNa Puram/SowrirAjan , ThirukkaNNa mangai/Bhaktha Vathsalan, ThirukkaNNangudi/ShyamaLa mEni perumAL,ThirukkAvaLampAdi/ Gopala KrishNan and ThirukkUdalUr/Vaimk Kaatha PerumAL ) along with the other ArchA mUrthys of other divya desams with KrishNa Bhagavaan at the center. Latter FIVE KshEthrams* and their ArchA mUrthys are : ThErazhandUr /Gosakan - Aamuruviappan , DwArakai/KalyANa NaaraayaNan , Vada Mathurai/GovardhanEsan , ThiruvAipAdi/Nava- Mohana KrishNan , ThiruvallikkENi/ParthasArathy and Thirup Patakam's Paandavar DhUthan, Thiru NarayUr. Thus 11 Divya desa KrishNans* can be visualized here in the mind's eye . The KrishNa vigraham of the silver mantapam used in Dolothsavams has BheejAksharams on His ThirumEni and is the most sacred one to bless people with santhathi . Sri RanganAyaki SamEtha Sri RanganAthar* *************************************** Near the SvarNa Laksmi Narasimhan next to MaalOlan is Sri RanganAthar and Sri RanganAyaki at His sacred feet .This mUrthy is the one worshipped by another AchAryA , KanthADai Sri ANNan Swamy and handed over to Sri Sannidhi. Thus Sri RanganAthan is part of the assembly of ArchA mUrthys. This is the representation of Lord , who drove Thondaradip Podi Azhwar out of his mind with His beauty and made the AzhwAr ask the SamsAris : Yenn seyhEn UlahatthIrE ? in one of his ThirumAlaip Paasuram that Sri Vijay Triplicane spot lighted recently ( Kuda disai mudiyai vaitthu---) . Sri ParimaLa RanganAthan of IndaLUr* is also here in Veera sayanam poisture is also accompanying MaalOlan at this silver mantapam . The Sri RanganathAn of the Silver mantapam is standing in for a total of 27 Sayana ArchA mUrthys* , who give us darsanam as Sayana mUrthys including the Lord of Sri Rangam , AarAvamudhan, Thiru InDalUr and few reposing Sri Ramachandra Murthys : Thiru Ananthapuram , Thiru Anbil ,Thiru AadhanUr , Thiru VeLLUr ,Thiruk Kadanmallai ,Thiruk karampanUr , Thiruk Kavitthalam ,Thiruk KOttiyUr ,Thiruk KolUr , Thiruc ChitthirakkUtam , Thiruc ChirupuliyUr , Thirut Therriampalam ,Thiru Neermalai , Thirup PaaRkadal ,Thirup PullANi Darbha sayanan, Thirup PuLingudi , Thrup PuLLambhUthankudi , Thirup Pernagar/Koviladi and Sri VillipputthUr / Vatapathra Saayee , Thiru VehhA and ThiruveLLiyankudi. PeraruLAlan of Kaanchi* *********************** Near Sri RanganAthA is the Atthigiri Varadar , who was worshipped by NadAthUr ammAL , his grandson GatikA Satham ammAL , who in turn blessed his prime disciple Aadhi VaNN SatakOpa Jeeyar , the first Jeeyar of AhObila Matam . This is the Lord , whom Swami Desikan described as Visva adhisAyi Sukha rUpan ( The One with the most beautiful and delectable soundharyam ).Swami begged for the most merciful glances of this ArchA mUrthy to fall on him and redeem him ( Unnidhra madhrA: dayALO: thE katAkshA; mayi pathanthu--Sri Varada Raaja Panchakam: 38 th slOkam ) . This ArchA mUrthy is also representing pEraruLALan of Thiruc Chemponnsey Koil* divya desam near ThirunAngUr . Sri SeshAdhri Sekhara Vibhu*and ThiruviNNagarappan* *************************************************** Close to Sri Atthigiri Varadar is ThiruvEnakatamudayAn with AlarmEl mangai ThAyar on His Vakshasthalam . Swami Desikan followed KulasEkhara AzhwAr's foot steps and prayed for the blessing of residence in the foothills of ThiruvEnakatam thru a prayer to the DayA dEvi of Sri VenakatEsA : vrushagiri katakEshu vyanjayathsu prathIthai: Madhumathana dayE tvAm vaari dhArA visEshai: (Meaning : Oh DayA dEvi , who is the embodiment of the DayA of the Lord , who destroyed the asuran , Madhu ! May I be bkessed to be at the foothills of ThiruvEnkatam known for their beautiful water falls that remind me of Yourself ! ) Sri SrinivAsan stands in for the ArchA mUrthys of ThiruviNNagar and Annan Koil as well . Thiru nArAyaNapuram EmperumAn* ****************************** Close by is the Chellap PiLLai with Yathugiri NaacchiyAr of ThirunAraayaNa puram ( DakshiNa BadarikAsramam ) , where the first Jeeyar was born and three more Jeeyars of Ahobila matam besides the first Jeeyar (2nd, 10th and the 12th Jeeyars ) have their BrindhAvanams . This ThirunArAyaNan is representing other NaarAyaNans of other divya dEsams a s well( Thirukkatit ThAnam / Adhbhutha NaarAyanan , ThirukkOttiyUr /Soumya NaarAyaNan , BadarikAsramam/ Badari NaarAyaNan ). Other EmperumAns of Divya Desams* in the sathas *********************************************** BhU VarAhan of Svayam Vyaktha KshEthram , Sri MushNam, and Thiruvidaventhai ,Sri Lakshmi VarAhan of TampraparaNI tatam , Sudarsana BhagavAn of Srirangam , ANDAL SamEtha Sri RangamannAr of Sri VilliputthUr , Sri AarAvamudhan of Thiruk Kudanthai , HayagrIvan of ThiruvahInrapuram and Aadhi Kesavan of ThiruvAttARu , SithA LakshmaNa sahitha Sri Raamabhadran of AyOddhi . SvarNa Narasimhan , who came before a King ******************************************* When a Siva Bhakthan named PrathApa Rudran cast a Golden Sivalingam for his daily puJa , the statue that came out of the dye was that of Narasimhan . However much he repeated his castings, he always got Narasimha MUrtham at AhObilam . He understood the power of the KshEthram and presented the SvarNa Narasimhan to the Azhagiya Singhar of his time and that ArchA mUrthy visits the ThirumadappaLLI during the IjyArAdhana kaalam . There is a MangaLagiri Narasimhan in the Rajatha mantapam known also as Paanaka Narasimhan . These Narasimhans stand for the narasimha mUrthys of Thiru VeLUkkai , GatikAchalam , ThiruvallikkENi's TeLLiya Singham , ThiruvAli Narasimhan and TanjayALi nagar . Thus inside the Silver mantapam housing the Koil of MaalOlan , we can have the darsana soubhAgyam of Sri RanganAthAn , VaradarAjAn , SrinivAsan/ ThiruviNNagarappan , KrishNan , ThirunArAyaNan , HayagrIvan , Raamchandran and a host of other Divya Desa MUrthys . SaaLagrAmams worshipped by great yathIsvarALs are also enshrined there. SampradhAya AarAdhanam for these mUrthys for many hundred years now have enhanced their Saannidhyam . Hence , The Silver Mantapam is one of the top most divya dEsam having the integrated essence of many divya dEsams put together . MaalOlan ThiruvadigaLE SaraNam , Daasan , V.Sadagopan
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