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From: Mani Varadarajan (mani_at_srirangam.esd.sgi.com)
Date: Mon Jul 10 1995 - 15:45:01 PDT
Ranga Satagopan writes: > > Besides, amudhanaar says in the 33rd paasuram of 100thanthaathi > > that sri raamaanujaa was the avathaaram of the five divine > > weapons: > > Isn't Ramanuja considered an incarnation of Sesha (= Lakshmana = > Rama + Anuja)? Infact I have heard the following legend about > Ramanuja: Yes, some traditional histories have Ramanuja as an incarnation of Adisesha. I think Amudhanaar symbolizes Ramanuja as a "defender of the faith" by making him an incarnation of the divya aayudhaani. The earliest biographies, though, do not mention Ramanuja as an incarnation of anyone. Neither Vedanta Desika nor Manavaala Maamunigal mention the Adisesha = Ramanuja equation in their poems in praise of Ramanuja, so it is likely that this story gained currency only later. Mani