Sri Sudarsanar's milestone contributions to our 'sampradAyam', as under ~

(1) publications are of various categories:

(2) sangath thamizh sudharsaNar
(3) 'thirumAl' The Lord of all the Regions

(4) 'thirumAl' the Lord of marudham also
(5) ThirumAl the Lord of neidhal nilam
(6) CONTEMPORARY SIGNIFICANCE
(7) sriman nArAyaNa - the root of creation thirumAl the only Lord who can grant salvation.
(8) "srEmAn" - the person who has wealth of good words, nalla vArthai-AgiRa sollai vudaiyavan.

In this context, I wish to make mention of my own booklet entitled 'Word in Fragrance' published by Sri A. Krishnamachari Svami of the 'SriVaishnavaSri' 214 East Uttara St., Srirangam-620006 ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

This publication is an amplification of my paper [on the Contribution of S. Krishnaswamy Aiyyangar to Srivaishnava Exegetic Tradition]. The paper was presented to the Seminar (17-19 February 2002) on Srivaishnava Commentary Tradition, organized by that extraordinary visionary, Prof. M.A. Lakshmi-tatacharya, Director of the Academy of
Sanskrit Research, Melkote. I was given to understand that this booklet will be issued as part of the Sudarsanar-SatAbhishEkam souvenir.

The booklet (of 28 pages) is in 3 parts. It starts with a brief factual biographical write-up on 'Puthur' Sudarsanar svami. This is followed by somewhat detailed recapitulation of the Srivaishnava'vyAkhyA' tradition, organized under the following captions ~

· vyAkhyA and sampradAyam.
· The Srivaishnava Tradition.
· The vyAkhyA curriculum.
· The Word in Fragrance.
· The 'maNi-pravALam' legacy.

The third part highlights Sudarsanar's specific works, such as the variorum one-volume edition of the entire classical commentaries on tiru-p-pAvai, and the 5-volume (3676 pages) commentary-exposition of Sri Ramanuja's bhAshyam on Srimad Bhagavad Gita.

Sudarsanar's aforementioned scholarly works apart, he is well-known for his polemical works systematically exposing the mischief of an array of influential misrepresenters and falsifiers authoring spurious and pseudo-scriptural works. 'Religion of the Tamils of
Sangham Age', from which Sri NSP has given interesting illustrations, is what conclusively establishes that Lord Sriman Narayana is God Supreme as adored in the religion of the ancient Tamils. 'Religion of Kamban' is a major study, paraphrasing in captivating Tamil
prose certain crucial verses of the world-renowned classic, as demonstrating that Kamban as much owed to the ancient Tamil religion as to the scriptures of the Azhvar mystics.

My booklet concludes with the account of the vigilant re-affirmation made by Sudarsanar svami that Srivaishnavam is a monotheistic religion. 'Sudarsanar' Sri S. Krishnaswami Aiyyangar remains the basic aesthete who receives and cherishes the other-worldly fragrance ('surabhi nO mukhA/karat') of the sacred Word, as emanating from our precious
inheritance of the vyAkhyA literature, encompassing the venerated 'divya- prabandham' /aruLi-c-cheyal of the Blessed Azhvar saints.

aDiyEn rAmAnuja-dAsan,
tirumanjanam Sundara Rajan.