Arayirappadi

Arayirappadi (6000)

Periya Tirumalai Nambi's son Tirukkurukaippiram pillai who was entrusted to the care and service of Sri Ramanujar by his parents is the author of the six thousand verses. This is the commentary on Nammalwar's Tiruvoymozhi.

All the commentaries on the Thiruvoimolzi are collectively called Bhagvad Vishayam meaning attributes of Alagiya Manavalan. this name he seems to have got after the Lord was found posing as the disciple of Acharya Manavala Mamunigal and was seen enjoying the discourse given by the Acharya while he was explaining Nammalwars Thiruvoimolzi.

It was Ramanuja who entrusted Pillai to write a commentary on Thiruvoimolzi as he found his literary abilities of very high order.

Arayirapadi is in maniparvala and each of the 6000 verses consists of 32 syllables. this is said to be equivalent to Vishun Purana by the help of which this Purana was written.

The characteristic feature of this commentary is that it gives four Sanskrit words to two Tamil words per verse. The Sanskrit words usually end with Tamil language endings, there are some sanskrit words with Sanskrit declensions but you cannot find Sanskrit verbs with Sanskrit endings. The beauty of Maniparvala style is when lengthy Sanskrit compound sentences are used they are given Tamil endings.

to be continued.