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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[SEPTEMBER, 1884.
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CTT: Gennar: at - (') सारार्णवमुत्तितीर्घरखिलं न्यायेन लब्धैर्द्धनैः [1] देवानंदेन वन्द्याय (®) arta A TT LI FATATU 14 TEAT: 999 Tat: 11 11 (१) सम्बत् ७८१ कार्तिक सुदि १३ निघनमिति ॥ ॥ श्री ओं Translation.
patient (of austerities) and desirous of emerg4. ............... obtain a puri- ing from the whole ocean of transmigration fication of the heart which gives as its caused to be restored, with money obtained in fruit the gain of final liberation (and) which a righteous manner, a temple of that Sid(is highly esteemed by) Yogins; and in whose dheśvara, which owing to the length of presence lions, tigers, hyenas, elephants, mon- time had become a ruin. keys and even herds of deer, abandoning ... 6. Devananda, who gladdens the learned, . . fearlessly roam.
has composed (the above) five verses for divine 5. A virtuous ascetic, called Vakula ja, Siddheśvara who is worthy of adoration. who is assiduous in the worship of fśa, whose Samrat 781, on the 13th day of the bright half of heart is filled with compassion for others, who is the month Kártika, the completion (?) Sri, O(in).
THE ORIGIN OF THE RIVAISHNAVAS OF SOUTHERN INDIA.
BY PANDIT 8. M. NAȚESA SÅSTRI. On questioning my grandfather about the sent him to the KAñ chipuram matham, origin of the Ayyangårs, the Vaishṇavas or to be educated there. He passed his days in Srivaishnavas of the Madras Presidency, he told study. me the following story, which I reproduce as One day, it is said, the Sankaracharya nearly as possible in the way he related it :- wanted to take an oil bath. The pupils used to
"In the good old days the mathams were serve their master in turn, and that day it was always the seats of learning. They were then RÂmânuja's. He was rubbing the oil over not the petty things they are now. They the bald head of the Sankaracharya, and answered the purpose of a university, and another student was taking lessons by his unlike our modern Indian universities, were side. A stanza was read in which the both teaching and examining bodies. Kavya, face of Vishnu was represented to be red as Nátaka, dlahkára, the Veda ngah, Vedas, Bhúgola, the lotus. The Sankaracharya at once exclaimLilávati, and every department of knowledge ed that it was a luptăpamd, or defective was taught. And whenever parents wanted to comparison, as there were objects surpassing give a sound and liberal education to their sons the lotus in their redness, which might have they sent them to the nearest matham.
been used for the simile. As an example, he It is said, and has almost been established, indicated the buttocks of the monkey. Ramathat the great Rámånaja charya, the nuja, who was a firm believer in Vishņa, cried founder of the Ayyangår sect, was born in the out. Tears from his eyes dropped on the beginning of the 12th century at Sriperum- thighs of the Sankaracharya, and pierced them büdür, near Madras. He was of the Smarta like molten lead. At once he ordered Råmaand Advaita school. His parents, uncles, and nujAcharya to leave the matham, and he accordother relatives were all Smártas, even after hisingly went. And now being a hater of Siva starting the Vaishṇava faith. He gave signs and a special worshipper of Vishnu he started of remarkable intelligence, and so his parents the new religion.
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