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Mangalasasanam

Mangalasasanam delivered at the Thiruindalur temple

Mangalasasanam (Sanskrit: मङ्गलाशासनम्, romanized: Maṅgalaśaṃsanam, lit. 'auspicious felicitations') refers to a Vaishnava concept in Hinduism, where a devotee offers their salutations and felicitations upon God due to a profound sense of concern for the latter, and also as an exercise of forgetting their sense of self.[1]

Hymns

Main articles: Alvars and Naalayira Divya Prabandham

The concept of mangalasasanam is often associated with the pasurams (verses) of the Alvars, who during the early medieval period of Tamil history (between the 7th and 10th centuries CE), worshipped Vishnu and his avatars through their hymns. This collection of their hymns is known as the Naalayira Divya Prabhandham. The Sri Vaishnava shrines that were extolled by the Alvars are called the Divya Desams, where a number of these poet-saints offered their mangalasasanam.[2]

Number of pasurams 1 2 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 20 21 22 24 27 32 33 36 39 40 42 45 47 50 51 110 128 202 247
Number of Divya Desams 15 8 2 2 2 1 1 23 14 8 5 3 1 2 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1

Classification

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The below table provides a classification for the mangalasananams offered by the Alvars:[3]

Prabandam (Hymns) Alvars (poet-saints) Number of pasurams
Mudal Āyiram (First thousand) 947
Tiruppallandu Periyalvar 10
Periyalvar Tirumoli Periyalvar 463
Tiruppavai Andal 30
Nachiyar Tirumoli Andal 143
Perumal Tirumoli Kulashekhara 105
Tiruchanda Virutham Thirumalisai Alvar 120
Tirumalai Thondaradippodi Alvar 45
Tiruppalli Thondaradippodi Alvar 10
Amalānathipiran Thiruppaan Alvar 10
Kanninum Siru Thāmbu Madhurakavi Alvar 11
Periya Tirumoli (Great Hymns) 1134
Periya Tirumoli Thirumangai Alvar 1084
Thiru Kurun Thāndagam Thirumangai Alvar 20
Thiru Nedun Thāndagam Thirumangai Alvar 30
Mundram Āyiram (Third thousand) 701
Mudal Tiruvantati Poigai Alvar 100
Irandām Tiruvantati Bhoothatalvar 100
Moondrām Tiruvantati Peyalvar 100
Nānmugan Tiruvantati Thirumalisai Alvar 96
Tiruviruttam Nammalvar 100
Thiru Vāsiriyam Nammalvar 7
Periya Thiru Andaathi Nammalvar 87
Thiruveḻukutrirukkai Thirumangai Alvar 1
Siriya Thirumadal Thirumangai Alvar 1 (40)
Periya Thirumadal Thirumangai Alvar 1 (77)
Ramanuja Nootrantati Tiruvarangathu Amuthanar 108
Tiruvaymoli 1102
Tiruvaymoli Nammalvar 1102
Main article: Divya Desam

Some of the famous Divya Desams the mangalasanams were uttered include the following temples:

Notes

  1. ^ Veṅkaṭanātha (1976). Yadavabhyudayam: A Kavya on the Life of Lord Krishna. Vedanta Desika Research Society. pp. PAGE CLXXXII.
  2. ^ Ramesh, M. S. (1995). 108 Vaishnavite Divya Desams. T.T. Devasthanams. p. 21.
  3. ^ "Azhwars and Naalaayira Divya Prabhandam | 108 Divya Desam". Archived from the original on 2012-03-26. Retrieved 2011-06-25.

References

Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangalasasanam_by_Divyadesam