Puja for திருமுறைகள்
Four, five years ago, on one evening my wife and I reached Tirukkaravasal. There was a special Puja that day for Lord Nataraja, the occasion being ஆனித் திருமஞ்சனம்.
The first time in life it was such a divine blessing. We didn't have an idea it was this special day.
You can see even today a glass case outside sanctorum of the Lord. In that the திருமுறை books are kept.
After abhishekam, Aarti to the Lord, the priest
did offer Aarti to these books also.
The above visit to Tirukkaravasal struck me, just when I read the end of one part in தெய்வத்தின் குரல்.
If we all think just only Ayodhya was under siege, we are all mistaken.
Maha Periyavar refers to an incidence in Madhya Pradesh. The place is Dhar city. It was ruled by King Bhoja, nearly about thousand years ago. He was great supporter of Indian Arts, literature, poetry, Sanskrit, architecture etc. People came to learn that a few people saw some Sanskrit letters inside a cave there in a Mosque. Only after independence, the Epigraphical department could manage to obtain permission from the custodians and see inside the cave. There was a chakra inscripted within which lot of slokas in Sanskrit was written.
The same was Saraswathy Devi Temple during King Bhoja's era. Maha Periyava says it was proof that those days Kings preserved and worshipped Sastras, Vedas.
Elsewhere read that it was King Raja Raja Chozhan who retrieved திருமுறைகள் at Chidambaram Temple. That's how we all could have access to the divine songs.
