śrīmate rāmānujāya namaḥ   śrīmad varavaramunaye namaḥ

śrīśaileśa-dayāpātraṁ dhībhaktyādi-guṇārṇavam |

yatīndra-pravaṇaṁ vande ramya-jāmātaraṁ munim ||

Śvāmi Maṇavāḻa Māmuňigaḻ Vaibhavam

After the end of the tragic period of Turuṣka occupation comes the highest point in the glory of Śrīraṅgam, as Nampêrumāḻ returns home and lets Ādiśeṣan reappear as Svāmi Maṇavāḻa Māmuňigaḻ, entrusting him with the monumental task of taking up the work He started as the first ācāryan and carrying it to a state of completion, for the enjoyment and upliftment of posterity. Having been handed the entirety of all of our pūrvācāryars’s treasures, Svāmi Maṇavāḻa Māmuňigaḻ’s mission was to take them all, along with the various yojanais of these giant ācāryars, and show to the world how to line these up without conflict, right from basic sāmānya-śāstrams to saṁskṛta-veda-vedāntams to smṛti-itihāsa-purāna-āgamams to aruḻiccêyals to rahasyārthams and all the way to anuṣṭānam. Displaying more karuṇai than in his previous avatāram as Śvāmi Rāmānujar, Svāmi Maṇavāḻa Māmuňigaḻ is hailed to have written and taught with perfect clarity and accuracy, with utmost simplicity and explicitness, without a single inconsistency, and leaving nothing for deciphering by later generations. Svāmī is celebrated for his most refined style of discourse – full of sweetness and flow, yet tight and precise – unmatched even by other pūrvācāryars and appreciated over and over by ācāryas of extraordinary vidvat. Knowing Pêriyapêrumāḻ’s tiruvuḻḻam, Svāmi Maṇavāḻa Māmuňigaḻ authored detailed commentaries of the most important rahasya-granthams, topped by his glorious commentary to Svāmi Piḻḻailokācāryar’s all-encompassing, magnificent work, Śrī Vacana Bhūṣaṇam. This, combined with Svāmī’s insatiable indulgence in aruḻiccêyals, his caramaparva-niṣṭai towards his ācāryan Svāmi Tiruvāymôļippiḻḻai, and his atyanta-pāratantṛyam towards Svāmi Êmpêrumāňār, made Prathamācāryan decide to close the hāram(necklace) of pūrvācāryars with Svāmi Maṇavāḻa Māmuňigaḻ by taking him as His ācāryan. To unambiguously display this bhāvam of His to the world, he had Svāmi Maṇavāḻa Māmuňigaḻ conduct the famous year-long Īdu 36000paḍi pravacanam close to his āsthānam, directly experienced the pleasure of listening to it by physically being there at the expense of all his utsavams over the period, and reveled offering the taniyan ślokam above to Svāmī’s feet with the commandment that aruḻiccêyal sevai hereon be begun and ended with this taniyan. Ācārya-śreṣṭars of immeasurable pāṇḍityam and maṭhadhipatis of illustrious lineages recognized Svāmī’s greatness and sought his tiruvaḍi saṁbandham, thereby blessing the entire Śrīvaiṣṇava world with ŚrīRāmānuja Saṁbandham through this ācārya-sārvabhaumar. Fittingly, Svāmi Maṇavāḻa Māmuňigaḻ’s supremacy, sweetness and endless other divya-guṇams were extolled by great vidvāns through numerous literary works on him including Varavaramuni Dinacaryais, Varavaramuni Śatakams, Varavaramuni Suprabhātam, Varavaramuni Maṅgaḻam, several muktaka-ślokams and pācurams, Maṇavāḻa Māmuňigaḻ Kaṇṇinuṇciřuttāmbu, Maṇavāḻa Māmuňigaḻ Nūřřandādi, and kāvyams and vaibhava-granthams like Yatīndra-pravaṇa-prabhāvam.

 Let us imbibe Svāmi Maṇavāḻa Māmuňigaḻ’s divine qualities and whole-heartedly surrender at his feet wishing for his maṅgaḻam. 

śrīmate ramyajāmātṛ-munīndrāya mahātmane |

śriraṅga-vāsine bhūyāt nityashrīh nitya-maṅgaḻam ||