Mangalasasanam
Mangalasasanam (
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
The concept of mangalasasanam is often associated with the pasurams (verses) of 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)
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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 |
Gallery
Some of the famous Divya Desams the mangalasanams were uttered include the following temples:
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Srirangam Temple -
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SrivilliputhurTemple -
Azhagar Kovil -
Tirupathi Venkateshwara Temple -
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Neelamegha Perumal Temple
Notes
- ^ Veṅkaṭanātha (1976). Yadavabhyudayam: A Kavya on the Life of Lord Krishna. Vedanta Desika Research Society. pp. PAGE CLXXXII.
- ^ Ramesh, M. S. (1995). 108 Vaishnavite Divya Desams. T.T. Devasthanams. p. 21.
- ^ "Azhwars and Naalaayira Divya Prabhandam | 108 Divya Desam". Archived from the original on 2012-03-26. Retrieved 2011-06-25.
References
- B. S., Chandrababu; S., Ganeshram; C., Bhavani (2011). History of People and Their Environs. Bharathi Puthakalayam. ISBN 9789380325910.
- Chari, S. M. Srinivasa (1997). Philosophy and Theistic Mysticism of the Āl̲vārs. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. ISBN 9788120813427.
- Dalal, Roshen (2011). Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide. Penguin Books India. ISBN 9780143414216.
- Das, Sisir Kumar; Sāhitya Akādemī (2005). A history of Indian literature, 500-1399: from courtly to the popular. chennai: Sāhitya Akādemī. ISBN 81-260-2171-3.
- Ramanujan, Attipat Krishnaswami (2005). Hymns for the Drowning: Poems for Vishnu. Penguin Books. ISBN 9780144000104.
- Govindāchārya, Aḷkoṇḍavilli (1902). The Holy Lives of the Azhvârs: Or, the Drâvida Saints. Mysore: G. T. A. Press.
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