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From: Sampath Rengarajan (srengara_at_ford.com)
Date: Wed Oct 25 1995 - 04:38:21 PDT
Thirup palli ezhuchchi defenitely precedes all the supra paadams by chronology and excels by style and composition. If one should find an origin for "supra paatham" then one would like to take a look at raamaayan and vishwamitra's calling Raama as "Kausalyaa suprajaa ramaa ....". Venkatesa avathaaram is not of Kali yugam. There are citations of Lord Balaji in "Saneeswara Puraanam" that Saraswathi did penance at Thirumalai seeking his blessings, prior to Ramaa Avathaaram. The Adivaraahar at thirumalai, the presiding deity for Balaji, certainly dates to varaaha avathaaram and Lord Venkatesaa himself is somewhere between varaaha avathaaram and Ramaa avathaaram. I am sure there are references to this shethram in other puraanams which will give a directiona and idea on the dates sought. Sampath Rengi