Mangalasasanam

Mangalasasanam (Sanskrit: मङ्गलाशासनम्, romanized: Maṅgalaśaṃsanam, lit.'auspicious felicitations') refers to a Vaishnava concept in Hinduism, where a devotee offers their salutations and felicitations upon God due to a profound sense of concern for the latter, and also as an exercise of forgetting their sense of self.[1]

Mangalasasanam delivered at the Thiruindalur temple

Hymns

The concept of mangalasasanam is often associated with the pasurams (verses) of the Alvars, who during the early medieval period of Tamil history (between the 7th and 10th centuries CE), worshipped Vishnu and his avatars through their hymns. This collection of their hymns is known as the Naalayira Divya Prabhandham. The Sri Vaishnava shrines that were extolled by the Alvars are called the Divya Desams, where a number of these poet-saints offered their mangalasasanam.[2]

Number of pasurams12456791011121314202122242732333639404245475051110128202247
Number of Divya Desams1582221123148531231111111111121211

Classification

The below table provides a classification for the mangalasananams offered by the Alvars:[3]

Prabandam (Hymns) Alvars (poet-saints) Number of pasurams
Mudal Āyiram (First thousand)947
TiruppallanduPeriyalvar10
Periyalvar TirumoliPeriyalvar463
TiruppavaiAndal30
Nachiyar TirumoliAndal143
Perumal TirumoliKulashekhara105
Tiruchanda ViruthamThirumalisai Alvar120
TirumalaiThondaradippodi Alvar45
TiruppalliThondaradippodi Alvar10
AmalānathipiranThiruppaan Alvar10
Kanninum Siru ThāmbuMadhurakavi Alvar11
Periya Tirumoli (Great Hymns) 1134
Periya TirumoliThirumangai Alvar1084
Thiru Kurun ThāndagamThirumangai Alvar20
Thiru Nedun ThāndagamThirumangai Alvar30
Mundram Āyiram (Third thousand)701
Mudal TiruvantatiPoigai Alvar100
Irandām TiruvantatiBhoothatalvar100
Moondrām TiruvantatiPeyalvar100
Nānmugan TiruvantatiThirumalisai Alvar96
TiruviruttamNammalvar100
Thiru VāsiriyamNammalvar7
Periya Thiru AndaathiNammalvar87
ThiruveḻukutrirukkaiThirumangai Alvar1
Siriya ThirumadalThirumangai Alvar1 (40)
Periya ThirumadalThirumangai Alvar1 (77)
Ramanuja NootrantatiTiruvarangathu Amuthanar108
Tiruvaymoli1102
TiruvaymoliNammalvar1102

Some of the famous Divya Desams the mangalasanams were uttered include the following temples:

Notes

  1. Veṅkaṭanātha (1976). Yadavabhyudayam: A Kavya on the Life of Lord Krishna. Vedanta Desika Research Society. pp. PAGE CLXXXII.
  2. Ramesh, M. S. (1995). 108 Vaishnavite Divya Desams. T.T. Devasthanams. p. 21.
  3. "Azhwars and Naalaayira Divya Prabhandam | 108 Divya Desam". Archived from the original on 2012-03-26. Retrieved 2011-06-25.

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