Andal Thiruvadipura Uthsavam 3 - 2024 : *கொள்ள மாளா இன்ப வெள்ளம்*

 

Bounty !  - in general parlance, a bounty is a payment or reward of money to locate, capture or kill an outlaw or a wanted person.  Written promises of reward for the capture of or information regarding criminals go back to at least the first-century Roman Empire. Graffiti from Pompeii, a Roman city destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 79 AD,  mentioned of a copper pot going missing and a bounty of 65 bronze coins (sestertii) for those returning it.  

 

In Australia in 1824, a bounty of 500 acres (200 ha) of land was offered for capturing alive the Wiradjuri warrior Windradyne, the leader of the Aboriginal resistance movement in the Bathurst Wars. A week after the bounty was offered, the word "alive" was dropped from the reward notices, but he was neither captured nor betrayed by his people ! 

In stark contrast, was the bounty system used in the American Civil War as an incentive to increase enlistments. Unscrupulous bounty jumpers would receive a bounty, then desert. Bounty jumpers were men who enlisted in the Union or Confederate army during the American Civil War only to collect a bounty and then leave. The Enrollment Act of 1863 instituted conscription but allowed individuals to pay a bounty to someone else to fight in their place. Bounty jumpers commonly enlisted numerous times in the army, collecting many bounties in the process. 

To us Bounty is different – it is ‘a generous gift’ – more of benefaction – the bounties of Lord meant for entire humankind and would never get restricted to any particular group.  

எம்பெருமானின் காருண்யம் எத்தகையது ! - எம்பெருமானின் கடாக்ஷம் எவ்வளவு கிடைக்கும் என வியந்துள்ளீர்களா ?  ஸ்வாமி நம்மாழ்வாரின் வார்த்தைகளில் எம்பெருமானின் க்ருபாகடாக்ஷம் 'கொள்ள மாளா  இன்ப வெள்ளம்'.  அநுபவிக்க அநுபவிக்க அதிகரித்துக்கொண்டே போகும், எல்லைகாண முடியாத, வரம்புகளே அற்ற  இன்ப வெள்ளம் — ஆனந்த சமுத்திரம்.  எந்த மாசுமருவு குறைவில்லாதபடி நமக்கு வேண்டியவை எல்லாம் அருளும் வள்ளல், உதார குண்முடையவன். அவனே மகாபலியிடமிருந்து பூமியை  அளந்து கொண்ட வாமனன். அத்தகைய சிறப்பு மிக்க ஸ்ரீமன் நாரணனை வணங்கி எல்லா பேறும் அடைந்து மகிழ்வோமாக !

 

கொள்ள மாளா இன்ப வெள்ளம்*  கோது இல தந்திடும்,*  என்

வள்ளலேயோ! வையம் கொண்ட*  வாமனாவோ! என்று என்று,*

 

Andal Thiruvadipura uthsavam is now on and today is day 3 of the Uthsavam.    During Thiruvadipuram, on all days there is chinna mada veethi purappadu of Sri Andal in the evenings. In general, whenever purappadu of Sri Parthasarathi perumal coincides, there would be periya mada veethi purappadu.    Today being Ekadasi day, it would have been  Periya mada veethi; however coming as it does, on the heels of Jeyshtabishekam, there was to be siriya mada veethi purappadu of Andal alone. 

After the purappadu, there was Unjal of Andal and Sri Parthasarathi perumal and rendering of Thiruvaimozhi 3m pathu.  There was Thiruppanazhvaar too.  It was such a delightful person of Emperuman inside the temple and hearing rendition of Thiruvaimozhi was pure bliss.  Here are some photos of day 3 Andal  Thiruvadipuram purappadu at Thiruvallikkeni divyadesam

 

adiyen Srinivasa dhasan
Mamandur Veeravalli Srinivasan Sampathkumar
31.7.2024