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From: Sadagopan (sgopan_at_computer.net)
Date: Thu Sep 10 1998 - 19:23:33 PDT
>Subject: Re: paramanin aruL-arunagiri nadar. At 04:09 PM 9/7/1998 -0400, I had written (VS): >>Lord Narasimhan : The worship of SivA >>reaches our Lord NaarAyaNaa as indicated by the story >>in MahA Bharatham , where ArjunA's Siva Pujai >>ends up at the feet of Lord KrishNA . A dear friend had invited my attention to the following Thiruvaaymozhi paasuram 2.8.6 of NammAzhwAr and wondered whether the account described by me was at variance with NammAzhwAr's vaakku : > >thIrththan ulagaLandha sEvadimEl poondhaamam, >sErththiyavaiyE sivanmudimEl thaan_kandu, >paarththan theLindhozindha paindhuzaayaanperumai, >pErththumoruvaraal pEsakkidandhathE > In this paasuram , Arjuna sees the flowers he placed at the feet of the Lord ending up in the head of Siva. I was quoting my version from memory in the context of what I rememberd from the MahA Bhaaratham section , where ArjunA was instructed by KrishNA to do penance to get PaasupathAsthram from Sri Rudran . I do not have access to the original text of MahA Bharatham . Hence I can not vouch for my leaky memory .In this context , I recognize NammAzhwAr's words as not only authentic , but even more inspiring in terms of the vision of Sri Rudran as the author of Manthra Raaja Padha SthOthram . V.Sadagopan