Re: andhaNar, vEdhiyar, paarppanar, battar and BrahmaNar
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• November 22, 1996
> Azhvaar establishing Sriman Narayana as the supreme > the Pandiyan court ... It is my understanding that Periyaazhvaar was a poor temple brahmin who was engaged from a very young age in performing pushpa kainkaryam to Vatapatrasaayi PerumaaL in Villiputtur. He had no special philosophical credentials, and in fact, only went to Madurai because the Lord commanded him to do so in his dream. It is only because of the Lord graced him in the Pandya raja's court that he was able to speak so fluently and convincingly about the Vedas. The epithet ``bhattar piraan'' most probably was applied to Vishnuchittan because of his great bhakti to PerumaaL, and that too only after his vision of the Lord at Madurai as recorded in the thiruppallaandu. periyaazhvaar thiruvadigaLE SaraNam kaarmali mEni niRaththu kaNNapiraanai ugandhu vaarmali kongai yasOdhai manchanam aattiya vaaRRai paarmali thol pudhuvaik kOn bhattar piraan sonna paadal seermali senthamizh vallaar theevinaiyaadhum ilarE Mani
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