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OH. IV. ALAVANDAR'S SPIRITOALIZA.TION. W
Alavand&r vehtured to speak thus:— " Holy Sire, yes, I am a
most hamble sciou of that race ; my name is Yamunai-t-turaivar
(Yamun&charya). I am come here to do thee obeisance."
So saying, he went forward and fell at Appan's holy feet.
Rising, after being blessed, he asked of Appan, how despite
caution on his :— part, he had been discovered by him. To which,
Appan said " Son, when God is with me, He so loves me
as to be listless to all else ; even Sri, His Spouse, is unable to
withdraw His attention while He is so engaged ; but now He
looked away from me three or four times.
I concluded thence
that none other than a child of Sottai race was close by."
At which account, Alavand^r was delighted ; and entreated
Appan that the Yoga-Mystery might be revealed to him, as
directed by his Guru Manakkal-Nambi ; for he had come in
quest of it. "Certainly it is intended for thee, son," said Appan,
" But I can only impart it at the moment of my death. That
moment comes the next Pushya-month, Guru-pushya-yoga,
Abhijin-muhurta. Take this scrap on which the time is noted so
as to put thee in mind of it. Come precisely at that moment."
Prosti-ating to Appan, Yamuuicharya returned to Srirangam.
Adhyayan-otsava, or one of the great annual festal celebrations,
in connection with the Holy Temple here, came round.
It is
the festival when all the 4000 Prabandhas of the Azhvars
are sung antiphonally. In the course of this recital, the
Araiyar, ' or the chief chorister of the Temple sang the verse
of Tiruva,y-mozhi', viz. Kaduvinai (X. 2. 8), in which occurs the
passage Nadamino namargal ullir etc., meaning :
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Speed, good souls, to Ananta-Sayana,'
Hemind We this— speed-, oh speed.'
J Th-u-r-aranga-p-p3ruma,l Arai- purna or Periya-tiramalai-Nambi,
,-„r „ Ti- ^oir'vui the maternal uncle of R.im^naia
vnr Ron of Yamuna, it maj' "^ *
/ ., t»a * . , i.j. \
'not^d here that while Yamuna was (v'de Eamanuja's hfe).
a Grihi he had four sons : Teyvatta- « gge our Azhvar's Lives, pp. xxii,
k . karasu - Nambi. Pillai - ai-isn- 205 and 222, aud our Dhnne Wisdom
K. it.cuo:^u , _ ,
Nambi; Sottai-Nambt and T.ruva. J^ Dr&vida Saints.
,^,^^ ^^^^ ^^^,^^ ^^ ^^^^^^
ranga-p-peramy. The son of the
p^m^.jjabha (Trevaudrum, Trafirst
of these sons is Srl-saili- vancore.)
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