Chapter 10
Thirukkottiyur - (எங்கள் எம்)
திருக்கோட்டியூர்
Thirukkoshtiyur, known as the ornament of the Pandya Nadu, is also referred to as Goshteepuram. It is said that the Devas held a council in this village to plan the destruction of Hiranyakashipu, who tormented the three worlds. This place is impenetrable by Asuras. The son of Koorathāzhvār, Parasara Bhattar, stayed here for many days. This is also where + Read more
பாண்டிய நாட்டிற்குத் திலகமாய் விளங்குவது திருக்கோட்டியூர். இதற்குக் கோஷ்டீபுரம் என்றும் பெயர். மூவுலகையும் துன்புறுத்திய இரணியனை அழிப்பதற்குத் தேவர்கள் இவ்வூரில் ஆலோசனை நடத்தினார்களாம். அசுரர்கள் உள்ளே புகமுடியாத இடம் இது. ஆழ்வானின் குமாரர் பட்டர் பலநாட்கள் இங்கு எழுந்தருளியிருந்தார். + Read more
Verses: 1838 to 1847
Grammar: Āsiriyaththuṟai / ஆசிரியத்துறை
Recital benefits: Will go to Vaikuṇṭam and remain there always
- Verse 1:
1838. Our dear god, our king, chief of the gods in the sky, who stays in the minds of the devotees who praise him and gives them his grace, stays in Thirukkottiyur where a cool, tall waterfall makes a cloud of golden drops and lovely lotuses bloom and shine. - Verse 2:
1839. He, our king is the sweet lord of beautiful Lakshmi and the beloved of the sweetly-smiling earth goddess with a coral mouth whom he embraces. He cures all painful diseases of his devotees and he stays in divine Thirukkottiyur where the breeze blows and spreads the fragrance of jasmine and mauval flowers everywhere. - Verse 3:
1840. The faultless sapphire-colored lord, the god of gods in the sky, the light of our lives, who swallowed all the seven worlds and spit them out stays in Thirukkottiyur surrounded with fields where the abundant wave-filled water of the rivers flows carrying sandalwood and samarai stones making the fields flourish. - Verse 4:
1841. He, the beloved of Lakshmi, the goddess who nurtures good families, gave a part of himself to Shivā who carries a sharp shining axe and rides a bull, stays in Thirukkottiyur where lovely young bees embrace the fragrant jasmine and shanbaga flowers and drink good sweet-smelling honey. - Verse 5:
1842. The ocean-colored Nedumāl, the king of the gods in the sky, beautiful as a precious sapphire, whose crown is adorned with long flower garlands dripping with honey, who measured the world at Mahabali’s sacrifice- stays in Thirukkottiyur where the moon floats in the sky above the white flags flying above the beautiful jewel-studded palaces touching the clouds. - Verse 6:
1843. The dear god, my ruler, who shot his arrows at the king of Lankā, destroyed his valor and defeated him stays in Thirukkottiyur where all the rulers of the world and the gods come to worship him knowing that it is there that he stays. - Verse 7:
1844. Our god, the beloved of the earth goddess, threw a vilam fruit at a calf and killed the two Asurans when they came as a tree and a calf and easily carried Govardhanā mountain as an umbrella to protect the cows and the cowherds from a terrible storm. He stays in Thirukkottiyur where the fresh breeze mixes with the fragrance of cool jasmine flowers and mullai flowers as it comes from the hills. - Verse 8:
1845. The god of the gods who broke the kurundu trees when the Asurans came in the form of those trees, killed the elephant Kuvalayābeedam and destroyed the Asuran Kesi when he came as a horse made me his devotee and slave and entered my heart. He stays in Thirukkottiyur surrounded with cool water and groves where sweet jackfruits rest on the ground, bunches of bananas ripen on their branches and mangoes grow on their trees. - Verse 9:
1846. The Vediyars in Thirukkottiyur who wear shining threads and are as divine as Nānmuhan seated on a beautiful lotus sing Tamil pāsurams and dance the kudakkuthu dance. Scholars of the four Vedās and six Upanishads and performers of the five kinds of fire sacrifice, they all worship the god of gods in Thirukkottiyur. - Verse 10:
1847. The poet Kaliyan, the mighty chief of Thirumangai who rides a horse, composed a garland of sweet Tamil pāsurams on the dark cloud-colored god of Thirukkottiyur surrounded with beautiful groves and fields where fish frolic. If devotees learn and recite these ten sweet Tamil songs and praise Nedumāl, they will go to the spiritual world.