Thiruvallikkeni Masi Swathi 2025 ~ அழகன்றே ஆழியாற்கு ஆழிநீர் வண்ணம்

Sri Azhagiya Singar - Masi Swathi purappadu @ Thiruvallikkeni 2025 

 

எம்பெருமானுக்குப் பல்லாயிரக்கணக்கான  திருநாமங்களுண்டு,  அவற்றுள்  'ஆழியான் -  ‘கடல் வண்ணன்‘ என்பது ஓர் அழகிய  ஒன்று. 

Oceans ! ~ the vast bodies of water surrounding the continents are critical to humankind.  Heard of  epipelagic zone ? 

Our own Triplicane is on the shores of a mighty Ocean – the Bay of Bengal.  An Ocean is a continuous body of saltwater that covers more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Ocean currents govern the world's weather and churn a kaleidoscope of life. Humans depend on these teeming waters for comfort and survival, but global warming and overfishing threaten to leave the ocean agitated and empty.  Geographers divide the ocean into five major basins: the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern. Smaller ocean regions such as the Mediterranean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and the Bay of Bengal are called seas, gulfs, and bays. Inland bodies of saltwater such as the Caspian Sea and the Great Salt Lake are distinct from the world's oceans. 

The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of Earth. In English, the term ocean also refers to any of the large bodies of water into which the world ocean is conventionally divided.   The ocean contains 97% of Earth's water  and is the primary component of Earth's hydrosphere and is thereby essential to life on Earth. The ocean influences climate and weather patterns, the carbon cycle, and the water cycle by acting as a huge heat reservoir. 

The early Earth was formed through the accretion of various materials, and that a period of melting and intense volcanic activity followed. The materials that accreted on the early Earth contained the components that would eventually become our oceans and atmosphere. There are a few hypotheses concerning the origin of the oceans.  Most scientists agree that the atmosphere and the ocean accumulated gradually over millions and millions of years with the continual 'degassing' of the Earth's interior.  According to this theory, the ocean formed from the escape of water vapour and other gases from the molten rocks of the Earth to the atmosphere surrounding the cooling planet. 

After the Earth's surface had cooled to a temperature below the boiling point of water, rain began to fall—and continued to fall for centuries. As the water drained into the great hollows in the Earth's surface, the primeval ocean came into existence. The forces of gravity prevented the water from leaving the planet. All life on Earth depends on this process, called the water cycle. 

From the shoreline to the deepest seafloor, the ocean teems with life. The hundreds of thousands of marine species range from microscopic algae to the largest creature to have ever lived on Earth, the blue whale. The ocean has five major life zones, each with organisms uniquely adapted to their specific marine ecosystem.  The epipelagic zone is the sunlit upper layer of the ocean. It reaches from the surface to about 200 meters (660 feet) deep. The epipelagic zone is also known as the photic or euphotic zone, and can exist in lakes as well as the ocean. 

Scientists one day hope to be able to plunge a submarine under the surface of Titan, Saturn's biggest moon. Nasa hopes to be able to do so within the next 20 years. For us, the Ocean of significance is ‘Thiruparkadal’ where Lord Sriman Narayana reclines on Adisesha.  

அழகன்றே ஆழியாற்கு ஆழிநீர் வண்ணம்,

அழகன்றே  அண்டம் கடத்தல், - அழகன்றே

அங்கை நீரேற்றாற்கு அலர்மேலோன் கால்கழுவ,

கங்கைநீர் கான்ற கழல். 

எம்பெருமானைக் கடல் வண்ணா!   -  ஆழியானே!!   என்று சொல்லி அழைத்தலில் எம்பெருமானுடைய பேர் மட்டுமல்ல அழகிய திருநிறமும் சொல்லப்படுகின்றதென்று ரஸித்து அநுபவிப்பாரில்லையே!  

ஸ்ரீபேயாழ்வார் தமது மூன்றாம் திருவந்தாதியில் எம்பெருமான் வடிவழகை பிரஸ்தாபிக்கிறார். தமது திருக்கையினிலே திருவாழியையுடைய ஸர்வேச்வரனுக்கு, கடல் நீரின் நிறம் போன்ற நிறமானது.   அந்நிறம்     மிகவுமழகிய நிறமன்றோ !  புவனம்  முதலாய மேலுலகங்களை அளந்து கொண்ட எம்பெருமான்.   தமது உள்ளங்கையிலே மாவலி தானம் பண்ணின நீரைப் பெற்றுக் கொண்ட பெருமானுக்கு,  நான்முகன் திருவடிகளை விளக்க (கால் கழுவ) அவ்வமயம், கங்கை நீர் வெளிப்படுத்திய, அத்திருவடி, அழகன்றோ !  .. ..  சங்கரன் சடையினில் தாங்கிப்  பரிசுத்தமாக பிரவாகிக்கும்  கங்கை நதி, எம்பெருமானுடைய திருவடியை விளக்கியதாலே மிகப் பரிசுத்தமானது. செவ்விய திருவடியினின்று வெண்ணிறமான கங்கைநீர் பெருகப்பெற்றது அற்புதம்.   அத்தகைய எம்பெருமான் ஸ்ரீமன் நாரணனின் திருப்பாத கமலங்களை பற்றி நாமும் உய்வோகமாக!  

Sri Peyalwar whose darshan was enabled by the lights lit by Poigai Alwar  and Boothathalwar –  asks : is it the deep-Ocean hue of the Lord that is beautiful; was the  water [that eventually became sacred Ganges because it washed the lotus feet of Emperuman] poured on the lotus feet of the Lord by Brahma  - when Sriman Narayana accepted the gift of land,  and in accepting stretched His foot into space – beautiful …. 

~  to us it only Sriman Narayana and the dazzling beauty of Sri Thelliya Singar on Masi Swathi [18.2.2025] - there was siriya maada veethi purappadu of Sri Azhagiya Singar and in the goshti, it was Sri Peyalwar’s moonram thiruvanthathi sevai. Here are some photos through which all of  us can enjoy the sublime beauty of Emperuman.

 
~adiyen Srinivasa dhasan
Mamandur Veeravalli Srinivasan Sampathkumar
18.2.2025 

Swathi ~ Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Garuda Sevai

 

 Today 18.2.2025 is Swathi thirunakshathiram – Sri Azhagiya Singar will have siriya mada veethi purappadu in the evening. 

 

Sri  Lakshmi Narasimha Swami Garuda sevai – depicted on a pillar in a bhajanai mutt near Kachaleeswarar temple in Armenian Street .

Thaipoosam ~ Arulicheyal goshti 2025

 

Thaipoosam purappadu 2025

Not so regular place !- arulicheyal goshti in front of Jain temple near Gangaikondan mandapam, Thiruvallikkeni

 

தைப்பூசம் - Sri Parthasarathi Perumal harvest ~ Kalinga Narthanam 2025

தைப்பூசம் - Sri Parthasarathi Perumal harvest

~ Kalinga Narthana Thirukolam 2025

 

 

எல்லா நாகரீகங்களிலும்  அறுவடை சிறப்பாக கொண்டாடப்படுகிறது.  மாடுகட்டிப் போரடித்தால் மாளாது செந்நெல் என்று யானைகட்டிப் போரடித்தவர்களாய்  தமிழர்களின் சிறப்பு கூறப்படுகிறது.    

Ever heard of ‘City of Westminster’,  an inner London city and borough. It has been the capital city, de facto, of multiple British governments. Historically in Middlesex, it is immediately to the west of the older City of London.  Not much was  read about : Oliver Cromwell (1599 – 1658), an English general and statesman who, first as a subordinate and latterly as Commander-in-Chief, led armies of the Parliament of England against King Charles I during the English Civil War, subsequently ruling the British Isles as Lord Protector from 1653 until his death in 1658.  Or that a war thousands of miles away threatened changing the dynamics of Chennai, India, - British India to be precise.    

அறுவடை என்பது பயிரிடப்பட்ட பயிரிலுள்ள பொருளாதார முக்கியத்துவம் வாய்ந்த பகுதியை முதிர்ச்சிக்குப் பின் சேகரித்தல் ஆகும்.  நெல்மணிகளை அறுத்து, போரடித்து நாம் உண்ணும் அரிசியாக மாற்றுவது மகத்துவமானது.  மனித நாகரீகத்தில்,  தொன்மையான தொழில், உழவுத் தொழில்.  வயல்களில் களை எடுத்து, ஆழ உழுது, நீர் பாய்ச்சி, விதை தூவி,உரமிட்டு, பயிர்களை பேணி வளர்ப்பர் விவசாயிகள்.   நல்ல வளர்பிறை நாளில் ஏர் பூட்டி நிலத்தில் உழவு செய்வது விவசாயிகளின் பாரம்பர்ய வழக்கம். அந்த ஆண்டு முழுவதும் நல்ல மகசூல் கிடைக்க வேண்டும் எனச் சூரிய பகவானிடம் வேண்டி உழவு செய்து வைப்பார்கள் விவசாயிகள். இப்படி ஏர் பூட்டுவதைப் ‘பொன் ஏர் பூட்டுதல்’, ‘ என்பர்.    நன்கு விளைந்த பயிர்களை அறுவடை செய்வது ஒரு திருவிழா !    

Feb 12, 2025  (Thai 305 – Pournami day) was a very special day for all Hindus.  ‘Thai Pusam’  -  Sri Parthasarathi special purappadu. There are very few occasions when Perumal purappadu has purappadu outside the precincts of mada veethi.  On Thaipoosam,  Sri Parthasarathi in ‘Kaalinga Narthana thirukolam’  accompanied by Senai Muthaliyaar   had periya maada veedhi purappadu thence to Big Street.  For Saivaites – thai poosam on pournami day is significant as it commemorates the birth day of Murugan and the occasion when Parvathi gave Subramanyar a spear for vanishing the demon Soorapadman.   

At Thiruvallikkeni divyadesam, traditionally on Thaipusam day, Sri Parthasarathi visits Big Street – the long winding Veeraghava Mudali Street – which now a days is more of a lane than a Big! street….  This is the Uthsavam where Perumal oversees the bountiful harvest from His field. (kadhir aruthal). Perhaps many decades  or even centuries  ago, the junction of Big Street, Bharathi Salai (Pycrofts road), might have represented the end of the locality and perhaps the area thereafter could have been rice fields………… now it is maze of buildings in small lanes and by-lanes where people jostle for space.  There was a  pandal put up at the Junction where Perumal halted for a brief-while and paddy was placed before the Lord, then at His feet.  The rice grains so placed were distributed to the devotees too…  

I had been under the impression that perhaps this could be construed as the boundary of Triplicane village of olden days – but couple of well-informed persons had posted that Perumal used to visit longer – till the vasantha mantap of the Sri Arasadi Karpaga Vinayagar temple (more famously Big Street Pillaiyar kovil) and beyond the famous Red building of The Hindu High School , .. .. not any longer !  

Periyazhwar in his ‘Periyazhwar Thirumozhi’ sings: 

காளியன் பொய்கை கலங்கப் பாய்ந்திட்டு * அவன்

நீள்முடியைந்திலும் நின்று நடம்செய்து*

மீள அவனுக்கு அருள் செய்த வித்தகன்*

தோள்வலி வீரமே பாடிப்பற!   தூமணி வண்ணனைப் பாடிப்பற!!

 

This is legend  of most dreaded Kaliya and the exploit of Lord Krishna who jumped into the pond, danced on the hood of deadly snake, thereby turning the lake turbid  - and when Kaliya surrendered, He benevolently favoured him too….   Kaliya  also known as Kalingan was a poisonous Naga living in the Yamuna River, in Vrindavan.  Over the years, the water had turned totally poisonous, thereby causing trouble to  fish, cattle, birds and all living things.  Legend had it that Kaliya had chosen that place as Garuda was prevented from entering there.   

Lord Krishna was playing with cowherd colleagues, when the ball fell into the water source.  Krishna playfully jumped into it.  Kāliya with his anger,  rose up emitting  poison and wrapped himself around Krishna's body.  The folk around and all others were mortally afraid and started praying.  Lord  Krishna subdued him,  sprang into Kāliya's head and danced on its head.  The serpent king’s wives came and prayed to Lord Krishna with folded hands.  Kāliya, too,  recognizing the greatness of Krishna, surrendered, promising he would not harass anybody.  Lord Krishna pardoned him and showed him the divine path, once he vowed to eschew violence and fell at His Lotus Feets.  The chastising of the Naga King is described in great detail.  Lord Krishna whose birth was to subdue envious demons, climbed atop a Kadamba tree and finally changed the very nature of Kalinga.   

இன்று [12.2.2025] தைப்பூசம்.  ஸ்ரீபார்த்தசாரதி பெருமாள் காளிங்கன் மீது  நர்த்தனமாடும் திருகோலத்தில் பாங்குடன் புறப்பாடு கண்டு அருளினார்.  ஸ்ரீபார்த்தசாரதி பெருமாளுடன், சேனை முதல்வரும் எழுந்து அருளினார்.   

திருவல்லிக்கேணி திவ்யதேசத்தின் பல புறப்பாடுகளில்   இன்று ஒரு தனி சிறப்பு.   தை பூசம் அன்று மட்டுமே, பெருமாள் கங்கை கொண்டான் மண்டபம் தாண்டி பெரிய தெரு (வீரராகவ முதலி தெரு என்பதே இத்தெருவின் தொன்மையான பெயர்) எழுந்து அருள்கிறார். தைப்பூசம் என்பது 'கதிர் அறுக்கும்' திருநாளாக கொண்டாடப்படுகிறது.   பெரிய தெருவும் பாரதி சாலையும் சந்திக்கும் இடத்தில் அமைக்கப்பட்ட  பந்தலில் ஸ்ரீபார்த்தசாரதி எழுந்து அருளியவுடன்,  நெல்மணிகள் கொண்ட கட்டு பெருமாளுக்கு சமர்ப்பிக்கப்பட்டு, பெருமாளின் திருவடிகளில் வைக்கப்பட்டு, பிறகு நெல்கதிர்கள் பக்தர்களுக்கு வழங்கப்படுகின்றன.  பல வருடங்களுக்கு முன், இவ்விடம் ஊர் எல்லை ஆகவும், தாண்டிய பகுதிகள் வயல் வரப்புகள் ஆகவும் இருந்து இருக்க வேண்டும்.  இவ்வுத்சவம், பெருமாள் தனக்கு சொந்தமான வயல்களில் அறுக்கப்பட்ட நெற்கதிர்களின் கணக்கு பார்ப்பதாக ஐதீஹம்.  

Thiruvallikkeni and Thirumylai and other places like Thiruvanmiyur, Thiruvottiyur – existed far many centuries before the history of the city of Madrasapattinam started.  .. .. not sure what would have the boundaries of yore .. there existed a river then known as Thiruvallikkeni river too !! 

Following the Irish Rebellion of 1641, most of Ireland came under the control of the Irish Catholic Confederation. In early 1649, the Confederates allied with the English Royalists, who had been defeated by the Parliamentarians in the English Civil War. By May 1652, Cromwell's Parliamentarian army had defeated the Confederate and Royalist coalition in Ireland and occupied the country, ending the Irish Confederate Wars (or Eleven Years' War). 

Around that time, near our residences – Francis Day obtained grant from the Rajah of Chandragiri on 1.3.1639 and the station was considered to be so important   by the Agency at Masulipatam, that they  directed Day to begin building the Fort at the Company’s expense, without waiting for the orders of the Court of Directors. When  Fort St George was initially established - the times were bad. Trade had been very bad at home, as well as on the Coast of Coromandel. England had been distracted by the great Civil War, between Charles and his –Parliament.  The Company were to suffer more when King Charles returned after war against the Scotts; there was pressing need for money that compelled them to resort to   most extraordinary means for obtaining it.  In  1652, matters became even more threatening. Cromwell declared war against Holland, and the Factors in the Fort were now in imminent peril. They prayed to the Directors to increase their little garrison, and permit them to complete their fortifications; and above all to be allowed to construct a curtain towards the sea.  The little Agency forces here in Madrasapatnam felt very threatened of their existence  from natives as also from   a cannonading from the Dutch on the side facing the sea.  The friendship between the Portuguese and English was probably cemented by their common enmity towards the Dutch. Indeed the Dutch possessed so powerful a force in the Indian seas, that it seemed as though no nation could stand against them. They took Ceylon and excluded the Portuguese from the Island. They blockaded the Portuguese capital of Goa ; they blockaded the English settlement at Bantam ; and it was fully expected that if Goa fell, the Dutch would blockade the Surat river, and thus put themselves in possession of the whole of the trade on the Coast of Malabar.

In 1654, a treaty was at length concluded between the English and Dutch, known as the treaty of Westminster. That treaty  concluded between the Lord Protector of the English Commonwealth, Oliver Cromwell, and the States General of the United Netherlands, was signed  in  April 1654. The treaty ended the First Anglo-Dutch War (1652–1654). The treaty is otherwise notable because it is one of the first treaties implementing international arbitration as a method of conflict resolution in early modern times.  But the colonial forces eventually took control of the vast Nation and we ended up reading only British dominance as the only History that occurred to us !! 

புறப்பாட்டின் போது எடுக்கப்பட்ட சில படங்கள்.   இதோ இங்கே ஸ்ரீபார்த்தசாரதி எம்பெருமானின் திருப்பாதங்களில் நெற்கதிர்கள் சமர்ப்பிக்கப்படும் காணொளி  :   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekzuyaCOfws

~adiyen Srinivasa dhasan

Mamandur Veeravalli Srinivasan Sampathkumar

  

Vinayaka and Muruga ~ abishekam

 

Vigneshwarar performing abhishekam for Muruga 

-      Poster at HR&CE pavilion – Exhibition at Island grounds.

Masi Masapirappu purappadu @ Thiruvallikkeni - 2025

Masi Masapirappu purappadu @ Thiruvallikkeni - 2025 

Today 13^th Feb 2025 is Masi masapirappu ~ the starting of the month of Masi and at Thiruvallikkeni divyadesam, Sri Parthasarathi Perumal had siriya mada veethi purappadu.  

A month is a unit of time, used with calendars, which is approximately as long as a natural period related to the motion of the Moon; month and Moon are cognates. In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words in different languages that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language.  The traditional concept arose with the cycle of Moon phases; such months (lunations) are synodic months and last approximately 29.53 days.  Various ancient Greek calendars began in most states of ancient Greece between Autumn and Winter except for the Attic calendar, which began in Summer.  

The Greeks, as early as the time of Homer, appear to have been familiar with the division of the year into the twelve lunar months but no intercalary month Embolimos or day is then mentioned, with twelve months of 354 days. Independent of the division of a month into days, it was divided into periods according to the increase and decrease of the moon. Each of the city-states in ancient Greece had their own calendar that was based on the cycle of the moon, but also the various religious festivals that occurred throughout the year.  

The Greeks considered each day of the month to be attributed to a different entity, such as the seventh day of each month being dedicated to Apollo.  Roman calendar was reformed several times, the last three enduring reforms during historical times. The last three reformed Roman calendars are called the Julian, Augustan, and Gregorian; all had the same number of days in their months. Despite other attempts, the names of the months after the Augustan calendar reform have persisted, and the number of days in each month (except February) have remained constant since before the Julian reform.   

To us Masi is a month of religious significance.  It is the month when we take bath in holy rivers and Oceans.  In this month comes Masi maham ~ at Thiruvallikkeni – the festival is pushed back to the last day of Masi ie., on 14.3.2025 whence  Sri Parthasarathi in Garuda Sevai will visit  Bay of Bengal. 7.3.2-25  is Masi Mirugaseersham, the celebration of Thirukachi Nambigal;  Masi 15-  Feb 27,2025  is Masi Amavasai from which day  starts 7 day Theppothsavam followed by Sri Parthasarathi perumal thavanothsavam for 5 days 

இன்று மாசி  மாதப் பிறப்பு.  திருவல்லிக்கேணி திவ்ய தேசத்தில் முக்கிய உத்சவங்கள் தவிர பல  நாட்களிலும்  பெருமாள் புறப்பாடு உண்டு. பஞ்சபர்வம் எனும் : மாசப்பிறப்பு, பௌர்ணமி, அமாவாசை, மற்றும் ஏகாதசி (2) நாட்களில் ஸ்ரீ பார்த்தசாரதி பெருமாள் புறப்பாடு கண்டு அருள்கிறார். இன்று ஸ்ரீ பார்த்தசாரதி எம்பெருமான் சிறிய மாட வீதி புறப்பட்டு கண்டு அருளினார்.  

இன்றைய கோஷ்டியில் ஸ்ரீ பேயாழ்வாரின் மூன்றாம் திருவந்தாதி சேவிக்கப்பெற்றது.  பேயாழ்வாரின் பக்தி சுரக்கும் வார்த்தைகளில் இங்கே ஒரு பாசுரம் :  

மருந்தும் பொருளும் அமுதமும் தானே,*

திருந்திய செங்கண்மாலாங்கே, - பொருந்தியும்

நின்றுலகமுண்டுமிழ்ந்தும் நீரேற்றும் மூவடியால்,

அன்றுலகம் தாயோன் அடி.  

For us, the lotus(red) eyed Sriman Narayana Himself is the medicine; its innate healing power; the Sweet Nectar – the power of wellbeing as well.  He is one who made the Universe, swallowed, remade,  and went on to measure it, by seeking a gift of three feet of land …..  and to Him we offer obeisance.  

 
~adiyen Srinivasa dhasan.
Mamandur Veeraqvalli Srinivasan Sampathkumar
13.2.2025