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From: V.MADHAKKANNAN (madhavan_at_cyberway.com.sg)
Date: Wed Nov 05 1997 - 04:14:59 PST
Dearest bhagavatOttamALs, Today, being MaNavALa mAmunigaL's birthday, Let me jot down what little I heard about him. He wrote a commentary (vyAkhyAnam) for periyAzhwAr's Thirumozhi because periyavAchchAn piLLai's commentary for this set was repoted to have been eated and destroyed by "karaiyAn"(termite). When MaNavALa mAmunigaL completed that commentary, one disciple read that and was so much moved and excited that he wished that ALL PERIYAVACHCHAN PILLAI'S commentaries should have been eaten by termites. It is not to talk less of periyavAchchAn piLLai's commentaries, but to talk more of the greatness of MaNavALa mamunigaL's commentary. Ram Ram Madhavakkannan