Dear Sriranga Sri and Respected Memebers!
My Shastanga Namaskarams to our Azagiyamanvalan with Sriranganachiyar!
It is indeed a great pleasure for me to narrate the events
on the 6th day of Adi Brahmostsavam.
Today is a very special day, when our Sri Ranganathan meets kamavalli thayar in Urayur.
Woraiyur purappadu, Sri Kamalavalli Nachiyar Sri Azhagiya Manavalan serthi
Early this day, at 4:00 AM, NamperumaL starts His procession towards Woraiyur on the southern banks the Kaveri river. Lord arrives at Woraiyur and is wedded to Sri Kamalavalli NachiyAr, about whom we will see in today’s
article. Lord Namperumal  with Sri Kamalavalli Nachiyar bless the bhakthas together on this auspicious day that happens only once every year on the 6th day of Adhi BrahmOthsavam. Now let us see the story behind Lord
Ranganatha’s trip to Woraiyur to get married to Kamalavalli Thayar.
Woraiyur was the capital of the ancient great Chozha  Kingdom. The story goes that the Chozha king Dharma Varman was childless but did a lot of kainkaryam (service) to Lord Ranganatha  of Srirangam. Pleased with his prayers,
Lord Ranganatha  asked goddess Lakshmi to be born as the kings daughter at Woraiyur. Being born from a lotus, the Goddess at Woraiyur is called Kamalavalli. As years went by, Kamalavalli grew up into a beautiful young girl. One day,
while she was playing with her friends, her eyes fell on a handsome lad, Lord Ranganatha  of Srirangam, and fell in love with Him instantly. King Dharma Varman was in a fix as his daughter had fallen in love with the Lord, who had
blessed the king with the child. He prayed to Lord to accept His daughter as the Lord's bride. Lord Namperumal  accepted the king's prayers and agreed to take Her as His bride. Delighted at this, Dharma Varman built the temple at
Woraiyur to celebrate it, which is now the Woraiyur Kamalavalli Nachiyar temple.
Lord NamPerumal in all his splendour, leaves Srirangam at 4 am across river Cauvery in a golden pallakku (palanquin) to meet his beloved goddess Kamalavalli for the kalyana uthsavam (marriage festivities). On this auspicious day in
the Tamil month of Panguni, the entire marriage formalities between Lord Ranganatha  and Goddess Kamalavalli will be enacted at the Woraiyur temple. Here, one can see Kamalavalli in a grand sitting posture all set to get married. A
unique feature of this temple is that this is the only Dhivya Dhesam (out of the 108) where the Goddess is facing the Northern direction or in the direction of the Srirangam Ranganatha  temple. After the marriage festivities are enacted,
Lord Ranganatha awill take the trip back to Srirangam across Kaveri that same night at 1.30 am. The story goes that Goddess Ranganayaki of Srirangam came to know about the Lords trip to Woraiyur through Kaveri Thayar who had seen
the Lord go across her river bed. This angered Goddess Ranganayaki Thayar and we will read about what happens in our future articles.39
We would like to point out a couple of very important notes on Woraiyur. This is the avatharasthalam (birth place) of Thiruppan Azhwar, who sung the ten beautiful pAsurams (Tamil verses) called amalanAdhipiran about Lord Sri
Ranganathaswamy.
There are also two pasurams sung on Woraiyur as (also known as Thirukkozhiyur) Azhagiya Manavala Perumal, the presiding deity.
In his Perumal  thirumozhi, Kulasekara Azhwar sings:
allimaamalar mangai naathan aranganmey adiyaarkaL thamm
yellaiyil adimaith thiRaththinil yenRum mEvu manaththanaam
kollikaavalan koodalnaayakan kozhikkOn kulasEkaran
sollin inthamizh maalai vallavar thoNdar thoNdarkaL aavare
Kulasekara sings these verses on the truly and divinely blessed bhagavathas, who have unalloyed devotion to Lord Sri Ranganathan - the master and chief of Sri Mahalakshmi seated on the red petal lotus flower. Kulasekara has his mind
always on these greatest bhagavathas; he is the king of kolli nagaram; the nayaka of Madurai (koodal dhesam); the chief of Woraiyur (Thirukkozhi). He has sung these verses in sweet and chaste tamil and those who are blessed to recite and
read these verses will become the servants of the servants (adiyarkku adiyar) of the Lord.
In his Periya thirumozhi, Thirumangai Azhwar sings:
kozhiyum koodalum koyil konda
kovala rEyoppar kundramannnna,
paazhiyum tholum or Naanngu daiyar
pandivar thammaiyum kandariyom,
vaazhiya rovivar vanna mennil
maagadal pondrular kaiyilveyya,
aazhiyondren renndhiy Or changgu patri
achcho  oruvar azhagiyavaa!
He has Thiruvuraiyoor (ThirukkozhiyUr) and Thirukkoodal as His place of residence. He is the Lord and the King. He stands like the Chakravartthi. He has four strong shoulders like huge mountains. We have never seen Him before. Let Him
live long for hundreds of years. Speaking of His gorgeous beauty, He stands like the huge, vast, deep blue ocean. He stands with the Chakra on one hand and Sangu on the other. Wow, what an unparalleled beauty of His!
Thus, on this sixth day, Lord Namperumal gets married to Sri Kamalavalli Nachiyar of Thirukkozhiyur (Woraiyur),
blesses the bhakthas together (serthi) for the entire day.
Had we known that the proceeding events would be cause of the Pralayakalagam, wouldn't we have told
this before hand to Sri Ranganachiyar? :) Dear Srirangasri members, at least one of you could have told Sri Ranganachiyar
about this!
After the Lord returns back to Srirangam, he directly goes to Veli Andal sannadhi where He exchanges garland with Sri Andal( Godha Devi)
there first - how mischeivous could our lord be?? - he does this to remove suspicion
from the mind of our Sri Rangayaki thayar. No matter what, who can stop the Pralayakalagam that is bound
to happen soon? Even our Namperumal chose to bind himself to fate and accepts it as a human being
would do.Well of course,he is not known as "Jagannataka suthradaari" for no reason.
After wards He returns very innocently back to kannadi Arai for the rest of the night.
Adiyen Dasan
Vachaka Dosham Kshamikavum
Narasimha Bhattar
My Shastanga Namaskarams to our Azagiyamanvalan with Sriranganachiyar!
It is indeed a great pleasure for me to narrate the events
on the 6th day of Adi Brahmostsavam.
Today is a very special day, when our Sri Ranganathan meets kamavalli thayar in Urayur.
Woraiyur purappadu, Sri Kamalavalli Nachiyar Sri Azhagiya Manavalan serthi
Early this day, at 4:00 AM, NamperumaL starts His procession towards Woraiyur on the southern banks the Kaveri river. Lord arrives at Woraiyur and is wedded to Sri Kamalavalli NachiyAr, about whom we will see in today’s
article. Lord Namperumal  with Sri Kamalavalli Nachiyar bless the bhakthas together on this auspicious day that happens only once every year on the 6th day of Adhi BrahmOthsavam. Now let us see the story behind Lord
Ranganatha’s trip to Woraiyur to get married to Kamalavalli Thayar.
Woraiyur was the capital of the ancient great Chozha  Kingdom. The story goes that the Chozha king Dharma Varman was childless but did a lot of kainkaryam (service) to Lord Ranganatha  of Srirangam. Pleased with his prayers,
Lord Ranganatha  asked goddess Lakshmi to be born as the kings daughter at Woraiyur. Being born from a lotus, the Goddess at Woraiyur is called Kamalavalli. As years went by, Kamalavalli grew up into a beautiful young girl. One day,
while she was playing with her friends, her eyes fell on a handsome lad, Lord Ranganatha  of Srirangam, and fell in love with Him instantly. King Dharma Varman was in a fix as his daughter had fallen in love with the Lord, who had
blessed the king with the child. He prayed to Lord to accept His daughter as the Lord's bride. Lord Namperumal  accepted the king's prayers and agreed to take Her as His bride. Delighted at this, Dharma Varman built the temple at
Woraiyur to celebrate it, which is now the Woraiyur Kamalavalli Nachiyar temple.
Lord NamPerumal in all his splendour, leaves Srirangam at 4 am across river Cauvery in a golden pallakku (palanquin) to meet his beloved goddess Kamalavalli for the kalyana uthsavam (marriage festivities). On this auspicious day in
the Tamil month of Panguni, the entire marriage formalities between Lord Ranganatha  and Goddess Kamalavalli will be enacted at the Woraiyur temple. Here, one can see Kamalavalli in a grand sitting posture all set to get married. A
unique feature of this temple is that this is the only Dhivya Dhesam (out of the 108) where the Goddess is facing the Northern direction or in the direction of the Srirangam Ranganatha  temple. After the marriage festivities are enacted,
Lord Ranganatha awill take the trip back to Srirangam across Kaveri that same night at 1.30 am. The story goes that Goddess Ranganayaki of Srirangam came to know about the Lords trip to Woraiyur through Kaveri Thayar who had seen
the Lord go across her river bed. This angered Goddess Ranganayaki Thayar and we will read about what happens in our future articles.39
We would like to point out a couple of very important notes on Woraiyur. This is the avatharasthalam (birth place) of Thiruppan Azhwar, who sung the ten beautiful pAsurams (Tamil verses) called amalanAdhipiran about Lord Sri
Ranganathaswamy.
There are also two pasurams sung on Woraiyur as (also known as Thirukkozhiyur) Azhagiya Manavala Perumal, the presiding deity.
In his Perumal  thirumozhi, Kulasekara Azhwar sings:
allimaamalar mangai naathan aranganmey adiyaarkaL thamm
yellaiyil adimaith thiRaththinil yenRum mEvu manaththanaam
kollikaavalan koodalnaayakan kozhikkOn kulasEkaran
sollin inthamizh maalai vallavar thoNdar thoNdarkaL aavare
Kulasekara sings these verses on the truly and divinely blessed bhagavathas, who have unalloyed devotion to Lord Sri Ranganathan - the master and chief of Sri Mahalakshmi seated on the red petal lotus flower. Kulasekara has his mind
always on these greatest bhagavathas; he is the king of kolli nagaram; the nayaka of Madurai (koodal dhesam); the chief of Woraiyur (Thirukkozhi). He has sung these verses in sweet and chaste tamil and those who are blessed to recite and
read these verses will become the servants of the servants (adiyarkku adiyar) of the Lord.
In his Periya thirumozhi, Thirumangai Azhwar sings:
kozhiyum koodalum koyil konda
kovala rEyoppar kundramannnna,
paazhiyum tholum or Naanngu daiyar
pandivar thammaiyum kandariyom,
vaazhiya rovivar vanna mennil
maagadal pondrular kaiyilveyya,
aazhiyondren renndhiy Or changgu patri
achcho  oruvar azhagiyavaa!
He has Thiruvuraiyoor (ThirukkozhiyUr) and Thirukkoodal as His place of residence. He is the Lord and the King. He stands like the Chakravartthi. He has four strong shoulders like huge mountains. We have never seen Him before. Let Him
live long for hundreds of years. Speaking of His gorgeous beauty, He stands like the huge, vast, deep blue ocean. He stands with the Chakra on one hand and Sangu on the other. Wow, what an unparalleled beauty of His!
Thus, on this sixth day, Lord Namperumal gets married to Sri Kamalavalli Nachiyar of Thirukkozhiyur (Woraiyur),
blesses the bhakthas together (serthi) for the entire day.
Had we known that the proceeding events would be cause of the Pralayakalagam, wouldn't we have told
this before hand to Sri Ranganachiyar? :) Dear Srirangasri members, at least one of you could have told Sri Ranganachiyar
about this!
After the Lord returns back to Srirangam, he directly goes to Veli Andal sannadhi where He exchanges garland with Sri Andal( Godha Devi)
there first - how mischeivous could our lord be?? - he does this to remove suspicion
from the mind of our Sri Rangayaki thayar. No matter what, who can stop the Pralayakalagam that is bound
to happen soon? Even our Namperumal chose to bind himself to fate and accepts it as a human being
would do.Well of course,he is not known as "Jagannataka suthradaari" for no reason.
After wards He returns very innocently back to kannadi Arai for the rest of the night.
Adiyen Dasan
Vachaka Dosham Kshamikavum
Narasimha Bhattar
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