Madhurakavi Alvar occupies unique place among all Alvars as he considered his Guru above Lord Himself and spent all his life in the Service of Sri Nammalvar of Kurukur whom he chose as his Guru or Acharyan.
Alvar has sung 11 pasurams called KANNINUMSHIRUTTHAMBU in praise of Sri Nammalvar of Kurukoor whom alvar chose as his Acharyan or Guru.
Madhurakavi ( literally meaning Poet of sweet words ) was born in THirukkolur near Kurukoor. He went on a pilgrimage to North India . While he was bathing in River Sarayu at Ayodhya, he saw a powerful light in the sky illuminating southern direction of the sky. Curious about its significance, he travelled in the direction of the celestial light travelling south in its quest. To his surprise he found it originating from inside of Lord Adipiran at Kurukoor, Thirunelveli Dist. ( Present Alvar Thirunagari ) Inside the premises he found Sri Nammalvar sitting in meditation inside the hollow of a tamarind tree. The divine Light emanated from his person. To a philosophic question he got a philosophic equally crypt answer. Madhurakavi was satisfied of Sri Nammalvar’s erudition and chose him as a preceptor, doing the service to the Nam Alwar.
Madhurakavi Alvar was again responsible to retrieve the 4000 verses after they became extinct after some time.
September 13, 2006 at 5:19 am
dear Sir,
Kumbabishegam done in 1991. i recently visit the temple. can anybody paln to Kumbabishegam.
i wish to know the history of madura Kavi Alvar, Karuvur Chittar and samathy of Alvars in Alvar THirunagari
i have seen the TAMRID TREE . BUT i need to find more on this. can you give the contact details of the place.
Regards
S.Thiru
September 13, 2006 at 5:25 am
one more temple near Thiruvanakoil and GRAND Anikattu is called Sengani vai perumal. Sri venugopal swamy temple was constructed by Karikal Solan and the statue was floating in the kaveri and Cholan construct the temple. this village was called as SATHUR VEDA MANGALAM and records shows tha Kalamegar sang the song about the temple and because of his curse whole viilage was rained by sand and all the veda vithhu left the village.
moreover there are evidence that Brimma usthavam done in this temple and now it is attached with Akilandeswary temple endowenment.
There are lot of culvert in Grantha . if anybody knows anything about this temple please write to me urgently, i wish to put the divine lords blessing in the book
regards
s.thiru