SrI:
SrI Thirumazhisai Piran’s Thirucchandaviruttam
Dear Devotees and Friends:
The current Tamizh Month is “Thai” (Makara MAsam). The star “Magham” in this month is the most auspicious Thirunakshatram of Sri Thirumazhisai Piran. It falls on Saturday the 27 th of January, 2024 in Toronto. We will have special Thirumanjanam of the Azhwar along with our Moolavar Perumal in our Richmond Hill Hindu Temple, Toronto and recite Thirucchanda viruttam with Satrumurai. Adiyen had the bhAgyam of translating this beautiful prabhandham as per the great Acharya Sri Periya VAcchAn pillai’s “vyAkhyanam”(commentary) with the help of the “vivaranam” (explanatory notes) of Puthur Swami Sri Krishna Swamy Iyengar, a well known erudite Sri Vaishnava Scholar. The first edition of that book was published in the year 2003 and has also been housed in our web site azhwar.org. A second edition with Unicode fonts and Tamizh texts in readable English format became necessary when Swami Sri Sadagopan Iyengar, the editor of the monthly Journal Vainavan Kural (VK) wanted to publish this translation serially in their monthly VK publications. Adiyèn completed that second edition by the grace of Azhwar and made it available for them. The serial monthly publications in VK was started in January, 2021 and in about 33 issues of the VK, had published all of the 120 verses from this beautiful Prabhandham. They added in addition attractive drawings in appropriate places to illustrate the “leeas” of the Lord. The most recent issue is actually from the current month of January,2024.
Adiyen wish to share the E-text of this second edition of the Thirucchanda viruttam -Text with Translation in our azhwar.org web site in connection with the auspicious thirunakshatram of Sri Thirumazhisai Piran. Believe it would be of value to those who have difficulty in reading Tamizh texts. The link is given below to the E-text.
May the infinite grace of Sri Thirumazhisai Piran and Sri PeriaVacchan pillai be with all of us.
With sincere thanks and regards
Adiyen Ranganathan
Jan-18-2024.