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) He Who has a great heart (uras), and blesses us.
c) He Who manifests Himself in the form of the great serpent ananta,
vAsuki,etc.
d) He Who has the serpent ananta as His bed.
e) He Who traverses everywhere in the form of the Sun with His broad chest.
mahoragAya namah.
a) SrI BhaTTar derives his interpretation by using the combination mahA +
urah + gah. Uras refers to chest, and in this context it refers to the heart
within us. urah pradarSitam hRdayam, yad-dvArA tAn (adIyAn) gaccgatiiti
mahoragah - He is called mahoragah because He reaches us who are small like a
particle of dust compared to Him, through our hearts. SrI BhaTTar poses the
rhetorical question: "How does He enter our heart?", and gives the answer that
He enters our heart the same way the material objects of pleasure enter our
heart, namely through our indriya-s. We see His form through our eyes, we
hear His praise through our ears, etc., and He slowly gets into our heart
through our own indriya-s, and occupies it after displacing our materialistic
desires from our hearts.
SrI v. v. rAmAnujan gives several references to prabandham in support of SrI
BhaTTar's interpretation:
"vandAi! En manam pugundAi, manni ninRAi, nandAda kozhum SuDarE!
E'ngaLnambi!"
"eNNam pugundu tittikkum amudE! imaiyOr adhipatiyE"
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tiruma'ngai AzhvAr, tirumozhi 1. 10. 9;
tiruvAimozhi 6. 10. 3;
"muttanAr mukundanAr pugundu tammuL mEvinAr; ettinAl iDar kaDal kiDatti?
Ezhai ne'njamE"
"vandu aruLi en ne'nju iDam koNDa vAnavar kozhundu"
tiruccanda. 115;
tiruvAi. 5. 7. 7.
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