taniyanhaL

innamudam ooTTuhEn ingE vA paingiLiyE 
tennarangam pADa valla Seer perumAL | 
ponnanSilai SEr nutaliyar vEL SEralar kOn 
engaL kulaSEKaran enrE kooru || One ||  

~Sree rAmAnujAchAryar ~

 Oh! My pet parrot! You come here. Listen to what i say. kulaSEKara AzhwAr was a great rAma Bakta. He taught His parrot to chant rAma’s name. Likewise i teach you AzhwArs names and you chant them always. Learn from me the names – tenarangan pADa valla Seer perumAL, ponaniSilai Ser nutaliyar vEl, SEralar kOn, engaL kulaSEKaran etc.

Aram keDa paran anbarhaL koLLAr enru avarhaLukkE 
vAram koDu kuDa pAmbil kai iTTavan mATTralarai | 
veeram keDutta SengOl kolli kAvalan villavar kOn 
SEran kulaSEKaran muDi vEndar SiKAmaNiyE || Two || 

 ~Sree maNakkAL nambi ~

Many Sree vaiSNavAs would be moving freely about in his palace. King was very fond of them the ministers did not like this. Hence, they planned to hide a navaratna mAla belonging to Bagavan and put the blame on Sree vaiSNavAs. But he refused to believe this and said ‘paran anbarhaL koLLAr’ and to prove his statement he put his hand inside a pot in which a cobra is kept. The cobra did not bite him. This incident shows how the AzhwAr had so much confidence and Bakti in Sree vaiSNavAs. The ministers apologized to the king. Thus the history goe