ABOUT SRI VENKATAKRISHNAN SWAMY'S FAMILY AND HIS SIGNIFICANCE

Another special and important thing about this lord is that, he gives us his divine darshan with his family. He has by his side his consort RUKMANI, his elder brother BALARAMAN in his right hand side, and his younger brother SARTHYAGI, his son PRADHYUMNAN and his grandson ANIRUDHAN in his left hand side.

He has only two hands, he has a conch in his right hand and holds his left hand showing varadha muthira. Except for nachiyar koil in kumbakonam, here is the only place where the moolavar giving darshan with two hands. This is the speciality of this Thiruvallikeni divya desam. There are many other significance of this moolavar, having a moushtache, a small knife in his hip and also a big knife behind his varadha hastam. Another important thing is, his lips will be red in color, it is because, the history says that, he was having the habbit of chewing beetle leaves 'VETHALAI PAKKU', most of the people miss to see that. It is one of the importanat speciality of this lord.

The conch is not meant for blowing in the battle field, in that case he should have the conch in his left hand, but he holds it in the right hand which is for a special purpose. He touches devotees and gently caresses their cheeks with his conch. This gives them supreme knowledge and help them understand the power of his name.

The conch is also known as 'Panchajanya', this also means the five elemants with which the body is created. By touching the devotees with panchajanya, the lord gives them the power to reach him by uttering his name with full realization of its power.




The left showing varadha muthira means, the lord says "MAM EKAM CHARANAM VRAJA ,MASUCHAHA"(come and fall in my feet, i will give the salvation) this means when we go and fall in his feet, he gives the moksham. That hastam is also called as VAIKUNTA HASTAM, Vaikunta means heaven, the place which we all want to go without taking any more birth in this earth.




He has two knifes, one is small which he keeps in his hip, and the anthor one is big which he keeps behind his varadha hastam. These two knifes he keeps not for protecting him, but for protecting us. Protecting us not only means physicaly but also protecting us from all the sins we have done and giving MOKSHAM which is the only goal in our life for all the Srivaishnavas.

My next posting will be about the great utsavar Sri Parthasarathy and his speacialities, yearly utsavams, e.t.c

SRI VENKATAKRISHNAN SWAMY

We know that according to our sampradayam, tattvas are three: Achit, Chit and Ishwaran. Ishwaran refers to Sriyapathi Sriman Narayanan. Ishwaran has 5 forms, namely para, vyuha, vibhava, antaryami and archai. Among these, para form is seen only by the Nityasuri's and even the Devas are not eligible to see this form. Then Perumal by his Nirheduka krupai came to the Thiruparkadal as the vyuha murthy so that the Devas can come to see him and tell their miseries to him. Even this form cannot be seen by the baddha jivatmas. So Emperuman took the vibhava avatara, but the difficulty of this avatara is, he can be seen only by the people in that time and it is difficult to understand him. Then, comes the antaryami, who can be seen only by great people, like the alwars. So the easiest form and the one, seen, even by a nastikan is the archavataram. Among the various archavatarams of the bhagavan, 108 have been sung by the divyasuris(the alwars) and hence are called the divya desams. Thiruvallikeni is one such divya desam. Thirumangai alwar, Peyazhwar and Thirumazhisai azhwar have given their Mangalasasanams to the Emperumans of this divya desam.

Even Arjuna for whom Krishna showed this kolam couldn’t have enjoyed it, since he was filled with confusion and vishadam. But even today we are able to enjoy that arpuda divya mangala vigraham in Thiruvallikeni. Even today he shows his feet and says 'mam ekam charanam vraja' and assures that he will release us from all our sins and grant us moksham. The moolavar has only two hands, a site not seen in any other divyadesam(except nachiyar koil). On the right he holds the Panchajanyam, the only Ayudam which Emperuman had with him during the Bhaarada Uddham.

Even when he sacrificed all other Ayudams and said he will not touch any, so he gives a divine seva keeping a Sankam in his right hand to protect us and in the left is the varada hastam which says 'Mam Ekam Charanam Vraja'. To show the warrior vesham the Emperuman has a moushtache and a small knife in his hip and also a vuzhavu kol as acharya puts it(since he is a Edayan he needs a kol). And he has Adhiseshan doing the kainkariyam of protecting his divine foot.


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PARTHASARATHY

Sri Parthasarathi thunai
Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha

Welcome to everyone who reads this beautiful webpage about Sri Parthasarathy swami temple in triplicane(thiruvallikeni)
I hope that most of the people know about this temple, please read this and post your comments on this.

First let us see the details of the temple and the different sannadhis, the deties of the temple.

VARIOUS SANNADHIS:
Sannadhi 1
Moolavar:
Sri Venkata Krishnan(with moushtache and adisesha at his feet, dressed as a warrior with a small knife in his hip and showing his kula darma as a cow boy with a kol. Emperuman on the right hand holds the Panchajanyam(sankam) and on the left he has a Vaikundha Hastam which shows his feet to the Bhakthas as saying 'Mam Yekam Charanam Vraja' ) with Sri Rukmini Thayar (to his side), Balaramar, Sathyaki, Pradhyumnan and Aniruddhan.
Utsavar:
Sri Parthasarathi ( with the marks made by the arrows of Bheeshma in the Bhaaratha yuddha all over his face also one or two in other places of his body like in the toe. The lord bore the arrows in his face to protect arjuna his devotee and till today shows to his bhakthas that he is Bhakthavatsalan)

Sannadhi 2
Moolavar:
Sri Ranganathan (with Brahma in his Nabhi. Emperuman doesn't have Sanghu chakram in his hands since he came here for marriage and hence without the aayudhams but with a padmam in hand). On the side Sri Bhoovarahar and Sri Lakshmi Narasimhar are also seen.
Utsavar:
Sri Mannathan (in kalyana kolam in which he came to marry Sri Vedavalli)

Sannadhi 3
Moolavar:
Sri Chakravarthi Thirumagan with Seetha Piratti, and brothers lakshmana,Bharatha and chatrukuna (seen as family)
Utsavar:
Sri Ramar with Piratti and lakshmana
Opposite to this sannadhi is the Anjaneyar sannadhi and near this sannadhi is the alwars and acharyas sannadhi.

Sannadhi 4 (Thaayaar Sannadhi)
Moolavar:
Sri Ranganayaki Thaayaar
Utsavar:
Sri Vedavalli (Consort of Sri Mannathan)

Sannadhi 5
Moolavar:
Sri Gajendra Varadhan(on Nitya Garuda Sevai)

Utsavar:
Sri Varadharaja Perumal

Sannadhi 6
Moolavar:
Sri Yoga Narasimhar (sitting on the Yoga peedam)
Utsavar:
Sri Telliya Singam/Sri Azhagiya Singar(with Agvana Hastam,inviting the bhakthas to come)

Sannadhi 7
Moolavar:
Sri Soodhikodutha Nachiyaar
Utsavar:
Sri Andal (consort of Sri Parthasarathi Perumal)

VIMANAM:
1. Aanandha Vimanam
2. Pranava Vimanam
3. Pushpa Vimanam
4. Sesha Vimanam
5. Daiveeka Vimanam
The unique feature of the main temple vimanam is that it resembles a Gopuram by itself.

THEERTHTHAM:
Kairavini pushkarini- This is supposed to be surrounded by 5 other punya theerththams namely, Indra, Soma, Agni, Meena and Vishnu theerththams. Though very closed to the sea there were no fishes in this pushkarini . Though today the old Pushikarini is been modifies into a smaller tank filled with water for the purpose of Theppostavams to the Emperumans in the Tamil month of Masi.

PRATYAKSHAM:
Arjunan, Sumathi Rajan(Sri Parthasarathi), and to the Saptha Rishis who did tapas in this Tulasi vanam(Brigu- as Sri Mannathan who married Brigu puttri(daughtera) Sri vedavalli, Athri-Sri Telliya singar, Marichi, Markandeya, Sumathi, SaptharOma-Sri Gajendra Varadhar, Jali). Sri Ramar was supposed to have come to give darshan to Maduman Maharishi.

THALAVRIKSHAM:
Magizha Maram is the thala vriksham for this temple present near the kopura vaasal.

MANGALAASASANAMS:
Peyazhwar, Thirumazhisai Alwar and Thirumangai Alwar (see paasurams in the Alwar mangalaasasanams page)

OTHER SANNADHIS (ALWARS AND AACHARYAS):
Separate sannadhi for peyazhwar and Nammazhwar are present outside the temple premises in the maada veedhees.
Inside the temple separate sannadhis for Thirumazhisai Alwar, Sri Aalavandaar, Sri Thirukacchi Nambi, Sri Vendathachariar, Sri Emperumanar, Sri Manavala Mamunigal(Inside in a separate place shrines of Sri Koorathazhwan, Sri Mudaliyaandaan and Sri Pillai Lokacharya are seen) are present.

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