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220 VATU.PtTBNA. CH. XXXIII.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
VATU-PURNA OH. ANDHRA-PDBNA.
Vatu-purna or Andhra-purna, wliose first entry into our
liistory may be remembered a.s having taken place when RamS,-
naja was at Saligrama (Mysore),' is known, above all other disciples,
to have .been the closest attached adher'ent of RamSoiuja,
and the staunchest follower of the Path, known as the Paiichamopaya,
or the Fifth Path—the Acharyabhimana," in other
words, unswerving faith placed in the Saviour, who is incarnated
on earth, and never dividing such faith between a saviour
who has taken on humanity, and God who ever remains Divine.
Vatu-purna was not a mere theoretical believer in this mode of
.salvation, but exemplified it forcibly by his personal example.
In the exclusive worship he paid to R4manuja's Holy Feet, he
excluded all thoughts of God. His Saviour was his God. He
recognized no other rival Saviour-God to his visible human
Saviour. Once on an occasion, RamiLnuja went to the Holy
shrine Tiruvellarai (about 10 miles north of Srirangam).
Yatu-purna followed him of course, caiTying the Tiruppulkudai
'containing washed clothes, images, articles of worship,
&c. Ramanuja, after reaching Tiruvellai-ai, went to bathe and
i-eturning, opened the cover of the wallet to find to his surprise
and chagrin that his own sandals had been placed on the top
» The descendants of this dis- Aoharya-stuti, and many songs in
oiplo are close relatives to the wri- Sanskrit, Telugu and Kannada.
ter of this work ;
and to this day Their descendant Kamacbarva ha^t
enjoy the rights and privileges of been winning laurels in the court of
the shrine bnilt over Rainanuja's the Baroda Maharaja and has made
Holy Feet at tliis place—a place of many disciples in Bombav and
holy pilgrimage to this day. In Gnzerat side. Their memorial
the days of Krishna-raja Odeyar, vere is thus sung :— ^frircTiiiTrwiwr
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two brilliant lights of this family ^jn. .. .^..Tj,?^, •
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known as Sidlaghatta Sndarsana- '"^^^'TT^^tT^charya
and Eangacharya (brothers) 'T?pi(>i«!rtt