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Srinivasan Balaji • April 5, 2003 


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Thanks for your reply. However I still remain unconvinced as why Andal did not mention Rukmini's name anywhere in her works. Further if Rukmini is the amsam of Nila Devi, and Bhudevi is Andal who is then SatyaBhama. I was of the opinion that Rukmini is Sridevi, Satyabhama is nila devi and Andal is Bhudevi.
What exactly is the meaning of Niladevi? In general why Utsavamurthi's are accompanied by only two consorts and not three. I feel there should be some nonsuperficial explanation for this. I would highly appreciate if someone can explain these.
Adiyen
Aravamudha dhaasan
 Nallan Chakravarthy Nappinnai  wrote:Hi Srinivasan Balaji,               Accept my pranams. Sita is teh "amsa" of Sridevi,RukmiNi an amsa of nILA devi and ANdAL an amsa of bhUdevi. PerumAL has three wives Sri,bhU and nILA. In KrShNAvathAram, PerumAL's companion is RukmiNi just as sita was in Ramavatharam. If you look at the samskrt thanian by Sri ParAshara bhTTar on TiruppAvai,it starts with nILAthunga sthanagiri..... RukmiNI is the one who does puruShakAram and Nappinnai(tamil equivalent of the samskrt word nILAdevi) is another name for rukmiNi. AzhvArs had refered to sita and nappinnai in their pAsurams and hence nappinnai can not refere to anyone else other than rukmiNi. This is my conjecture and I was told by my parents also. My name is laso nappinnai because I was born the day before Adi pUram(ANdAL's b'day) and hence my mother named me as nappinnai as ANdAL was more into KrShNAvatharam otherwise she would have kept it as some names of sita:-) Just told you whatever I know so fo





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