some history of 31st May ~ Sri Varadhar Aadi Hastham purappadu 2025

 

Today - July 31 is the 212^th  day of the year (213th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 153 days remain until the end of the year. 

The Battle of Alexandria was fought on July 1 to July 30, 30 BC between the forces of Octavian and Mark Antony during the last war of the Roman Republic. In the Battle of Actium, Antony had lost the majority of his fleet and had been forced to abandon the majority of his army in Greece, where without supplies they eventually surrendered. Although Antony's side was hindered by a few desertions, he still managed to narrowly defeat Octavian's forces in his initial defence. The desertions continued, however, and, in early August, Octavian launched a second, ultimately successful, invasion of Egypt, after which Antony and his lover, Cleopatra, committed suicide.  

Alamgir I - commonly known by the title Aurangzeb, was the sixth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1658 until his death in 1707. Aurangzeb and the Mughals belonged to a branch of the Timurid dynasty who ruthless and cruel. He held administrative and military posts under his father Shah Jahan – but ended up declaring him incompetent to rule and imprisoning him in Agra Fort.  On this day in 1658, he declared himself the ruler and held coronation in Sheesh mahal.    

Today the Nation must remember one of its greatest sons – Udham Singh born on 26.12.1899 and martyred this day 85 years ago !  He is also referred to as Shaheed-i-Azam Sardar Udham Singh (the expression "Shaheed-i-Azam", means "the great martyr").   Sadly, Amritsar was the place when on 13th April 1919 hundreds of innocents were massacred by the British – the  Jallianwala Bagh massacre, involving the killings of hundreds of Indian civilians on the orders of Reginald Edward Harry Dyer. On 13 March 1940, Michael O'Dwyer was scheduled to speak at a joint meeting of the East India Association and the Central Asian Society (now Royal Society for Asian Affairs) at Caxton Hall, London.  Udham Singh concealed inside his jacket pocket a revolver he had earlier purchased from a soldier in a pub,  entered the hall and shot him with  bullets passing  through O'Dwyer's heart and right lung, killing him almost instantly.  Singh was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. On 31 July 1940, Udham Singh was hanged at Pentonville Prison. His remains are preserved at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab. On every 31 July, marches are held in Sunam by various organisations and every statue of Singh in the city is paid tribute with flower garlands.   

On the religious front, it was  Aadi Hastham  yesterday and at Thiruvallikkeni divyadesam, Sri Varadharaja Perumal had siriya mada veethi purappadu  hearing Peyalwar’s moonram thiruvanthathi. 

Sri DEvathiraJar wears an attractive  gem crown with holy thulasi  wreath over it.  He has the adorable hue of a dark gem. He resides in the mountain that cool streams flowing around, making the place serene and pleasant.  It is He who came running to save His devotee – Gajendra, the elephant and killed the crocodile that troubled Gajendra.   He came and killed a crocodile living in the lake. 

இன்று ஆடி ஹஸ்தம் - திருவல்லிக்கேணி திவ்யக்ஷேத்திரத்திலே ஸ்ரீ வரதராஜர் சின்ன மாட வீதி புறப்பாடு கண்டருளினார்.   

ஸ்ரீ பேயாழ்வாரின் அமுத வரிகளை நினைவில் கொண்டு, அவரை தரிசிக்கும் போது இன்னமும் ப்ரம்மிப்பாக இருந்தது.  பரமபக்தனான கஜேந்திராழ்வான்ஒரு நீர்ப்புழுவின் வாயில் அகப்பட்டுக்கொண்டு மிகவும் நொந்து துயர் அடைந்தபோது, எம்பெருமானே சரணாகதி என அவனை அழைத்திட்டான்.  வைடூரியம் ஜொலிக்கின்ற கிரீடமும், குளிர்ச்சியான  திருத்துழாய் மாலையும் அணிந்து, குளிர் அருவிகள் சூழ்ந்துள்ள மலையில் வாழும் எம்பெருமான், அபயக்குரல் கேட்டவுடன், உடனடியாக, பக்தரை ரக்ஷிக்கும்படியாய், முதலையைத் துணித்து வேழத்தை வாழ்வித்ததான் ~ அவ்வாறாய் ஆனைக்கு அருள் செய்த பெருமானை   ‘அணிநீல வண்ணத்தவன்‘ என்ற ஈற்றடியினால் அருளிச்செய்தார் நம் பேயாழ்வார்.  

சூழ்ந்த துழாயலங்கல் சோதி மணிமுடிமால்,

தாழ்ந்த அருவித் தடவரைவாய், - ஆழ்ந்த

மணிநீர்ச் சுனைவளர்ந்த மாமுதலை கொன்றான்,

அணிநீல வண்ணத்தவன்.

Here are some photos of Aadi Hastham purappadu at Thiruvallikkeni  

 
adiyen Srinivasa dhasan
Mamandur Veeravalli Srinivasan Sampathkumar
31^st July 2025.