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Lakshmi Narasimhan Venkatapathy • October 26, 2002 


Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha
Dear Sri Visu,

I don't know about whether Azhwars were in charge of a temple or not. As far as I know, they were doing kainkaryams like Maalai thodutthal i.e pushpa kainkaryam(periyazhwar and thondaradippodi), Perumal idatthil thannai arpanitthu avanaiye ninaitthal i.e athma kainkaryam(Andal, Nammazhwar, of-course all the other azhwars too but these 2 were doing it full-time:). Kaliyan and Kulasekarar were those who were kings and were the ones who did some administration like building the fort(kovil madhil) etc. Thiruppanan was just interested in singing the praise(pannisaitthal) of Thiruarangan all the time while Madhurakavi did the same, but on Nammazhwar. Mudhalazhwar moovar were involved in thirutthippani kolluthal in a subtle way while Bhakthisarar was involved in the same on an aggressive fashion i.e by condemning other deity worships. This all that I know of. Sorry for not addressing your question, but I don't really know whether they were involved in the administration or not - at the least - not that I heard of.
But again, as I mentioned in my previous mail, all that I know of is that, their goal was only one thing i.e paramathma anubhavam. There were no other intentions for any accomplishment or achievement other than that of attaining the ultimate:)

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan,
Lakshmi Narasimhan

----- Original Message -----
From: Visu9@aol.com
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 10:02 PM
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Subject: Re: kamba rAmAyanam

/Om namO nArAyaNAya |

/namastE Shri Lakshnmi Narasimhan.  

I have a question: Is it true that each one of the /AzvArs was also in charge of a temple at some stage or other? By charge I mean that the /AzvAr was directly or indirectly involved with the administration of a temple including /arcanAs.  



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