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ALWAR TIRUNAGARI |
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King
Porkaraiar of Kurugunadu, of which Tirunagari was the capital, wanted to get his son
Kariar married in a respectable family. He considered it quite suitable to have a
matrimonial alliance with the family of Tiruvalmaravar, a holy man of the Vaishnava faith.
The negotiation was made in the presence of the elders of the neighbourhood and it was
decided that the latter’s daughter Udaiya Nangaiyar was to be married to the Pandyan
prince, Kariar. Without any loss of time, the wedding took place. With his new bride
Kariar proceeded to the holy Tiruvanparisuram, worshipped the Lord there and returned to
his native town Kurugunadu or Tirunagari. Some time after, he paid a visit to his father
in-law’s house at Tiruvanparisuram, accompanied by his wife Udaiya Nangaiyar and on
his way back visited the holy shrine of Tirukkurungudi, a charming spot near the Mahendra
Hill of the Western Ghats. He prayed to the Lord for a child. The Lord signified to him
through his officiating priest that he himself would be born as a child and presented the
prince as a sign of the divine favour, a holy basil garland, worn by himself. Taking
leave, the pair returned to their native place, Srinagari. Some time after, a child
was born to Nangaiyar. The child’s appearance is figuratively described as "the
sun rising in Natha - nayika’s horizon - the sun adorned with Vakula blossoms,
chasing the gloom of spiritual darkness, drying up the waters of the ocean of births and
deaths (transmigration) and making the closed lotuses of men’s hearts open into full
blossoms". |
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