nrisimhapriya : US and English versions
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• February 16, 1995
I understand that Parthasarathi Dileepan's posts are based on recent versions of the Nrisimhapriya. Is anyone getting Nrisimhapriya in US or did someone bring few copies from India? One question to ParthaSarathi Dileepan and others who may want to contribute. I wanted a sort of grep on the whole of naalayiram to find the various ways alwars have wrote about Other dieties. What I am interested is to understand their treatment of other dieties. There are extremist views as well as gentle views regarding one's treatment of other dieties, according to various sreevaishnava acharyas. Rahasyatraya sara gives certain view points regarding this. None of the acharyas have shown any hatred towards other dieties eventhough in their zealous bhakti they may have reduced their reverence to anyone other then their object of absolute devotion. For that matter one alwar says that " This mouth of mine, which has sung to Lord ranganatha will not sing about the God who is in the hills (like a monkey)ie. Venkatesha perumal. excuse my translation of a tamil verse. I may be totally wrong. I need help from other tamil scholars in this regard. I remember one post from dileepan which is probably from nammalwar - which gives comparison between siva and narayana - regarding their vahanas and that one is the in-dwelling principle in the other. On the other hand alwars like Kulasekhara, in mukunda mala stotram feels that all other dieties are worthless compared to his favorite lord Krishna. I am very seriously interested to know the original verses as well as the translations of them regarding alwars views on other dieties This may take some time or if someone can grep with proper names of other dieties one may find the related verses quickly. I am sure the tamil divya prabandham project folks will know some way of doing it or compiling it this would be a great study as well and more than anything I need to understand this real bad. I have tons of vedic, upanishadic and puranic evidences with me. In fact filloziat in his "varadaraja panchasat" - ananthacharya indological society publication, has given a few pages of information. In addition rahasya trayasaram also cites several verses both from sanskrit works as well as naalayiram works. I will make you a deal. I will write about all the verses listed in rahasyatrayasara.. from naalayira divya prabanda regarding this issue... let some one else write from the grep of naalayira divya prabanda to get a rigorous list of such citations. thanking you all ( in the hope that you will write about this!) krishna
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