MoondRam thiruvandhAdhi Paasuram-52

 Sri Parthasarathi thunai  
Srimathe ramanujaya Namaha

Srimad Vara Vara munayE Namaha

Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha

 Paasuram 52

EidhAn marAmaram Ezhum ErAmanAi

EidhAn ammAn maRiyai EndhizhaikkAi – Eidhadhuvum

Thennilangai kOn veezha sendRu kuraluruvAi

Munnilam kaikoNdAn muyandRu.

 Word by Word Meaning

ErAmanAi - Took the Rama Avatar;

marAmaram Ezhum – the seven Indian blackwood or anjan trees;

EidhAn - shot his arrow and pierced through them;

Endhu EzhaikkAi – For the sake of that piratti decorated with beautiful jewels;

ammAn maRiyai – That magical small deer (mareecha in disguise);

EidhAn – (playfully) shot the arrow;

Eidhadhuvum – arrows were (well) showered;

Then elangai kOn veezha – for killing the king of Lanka, Ravana;

Mun – once upon a time;

Kural vuru Aai – in the form of vamana (dwarf);

sendRu – went to the yagna of Mahabali;

muyandru – took great efforts by attracting with His divine beauty, talking with young innocence, measuring the 3 worlds etc.;

nilam kai koNdAn – captured His land back;

 Introduction

 Unable to come out of Rama’s divine pastimes which is life giving to anyone (mruthasanjeevanam) azhvar continues to elaborate more on Rama’s activities and stresses on His upayabhava (being the means)

Commentary

 (ErAmanAi marAmaram Ezhum Eidhan) That sarvaloka pitha (father of all worlds, universal creator) aspiring to become the son of a jeevatma created by Him, became chakravarthi thirumagan (son of the chakravarthi, Dasaratha) showed His easy accessibility by joining with the vanaras (monkey clan) and to create trust in sugreeva with a single arrow pierced through 7 trees.

(EndhizhaikAi ammAn maRiyai EidhAn) Immersed in the love of piratti, shot the arrow on the small/magical deer not even thinking if it is worth to be hit with such a powerful Rama Bana (Divine arrow of Rama) says Periyavachan pillai;

Appillai comments – Instead of ‘maRiyai’ if taken as ‘maRiya’; Immeresed in the beauty of piratti decorated with beautiful jewels like a normal human He shot the arrow in a way that the deer toppled and fell down.

 (EndhizhaikkAi eidhadhuvum thennilangai kOn veezha) for releasing piratti from the clutches of rAvana, He showered arrows on beautiful lanka in the southern direction and made rAvana fall to the ground like a smashed small wall.

 So, when it is for the sake of piratti (the divine consort), Rama sees no difference in the enemy be it mAreecha in deer disguise or lankAdhipathi rAvana.  Arrows are shot with same vigour.  But not only for the sake of the divine consort as in Ramavatara but also for all the jeevatmas as in trivikramAvatara, He does great tasks continues azhvar.

(mun kuRaluruvAi sendRu muyaNdRu nilam kaikoNdAn) once upon a time, He took the vamanAvatara (divine dwarf) went to mahabali’s yagasala, did extraordinary things like mesmerizing with His divine beauty, attracting with His childish innocent talk, growing from a small vamana to a big trivikrama, measuring the worlds just to get back the property that already belonged to Him. Is there a limit to what He can do to sustain His property with Him! Wonders azhvar in this paasuram recollecting emperuman as the natural means for the jeevatmas to get uplifted.

Azhvar emperumAnAr Jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam

Jeeyar thiruvadigalE sharaNam