Amalanādipirān

As he was carried into the temple, and as he stood before Sri Ranganātha, Tiruppāṇ Āzhwār sang ten Pāsurams, known by their opening words as the Amalanādipirān. In them he beholds the Lord's divine form part by part, from His sacred feet to His crown, and in each verse describes what his eyes have seen.

The first Pāsuram begins:

"Amalan ādipirān aḍiyārkku ennai āṭpaḍuththa

vimalan viṇṇavar kōn viraiyār pozhil vēngaḍavan

nimalan ninmalan nīdhi vānavan nīḷ madhiḷ arangaththu ammān

thirukkamala pādham vandhu en kaṇṇin uḷḷana okkinradhē."

"The Pure One, the First Lord, who made me the servant of His devotees; the Spotless One, Lord of the celestials, who dwells at Vēngaḍam amid fragrant groves; the Faultless One, the Just One, the Lord of Arangam with its tall walls: His sacred lotus feet seem to have come and entered my eyes."

In the tenth and last Pāsuram, having beheld the whole of the Lord's form, the Āzhwār declared:

"koṇḍal vaṇṇanaik kōvalanāy veṇṇey

uṇḍa vāyan en uḷḷam kavarndhānai

aṇḍar kōn aṇi arangan en amudhinaik

kaṇḍa kaṇgaḷ maṭronrinaik kāṇāvē."

"He who has the hue of the rain cloud, the cowherd whose mouth ate the butter, who has stolen my heart; the Lord of the celestials, the beautiful Arangan, my nectar: the eyes that have seen Him will see nothing else."

With these words, before the eyes of all who were present, Tiruppāṇ Āzhwār merged into the sacred feet of Sri Ranganātha and attained Paramapadam.

The Amalanādipirān, though only ten verses long, holds a revered place among the Divya Prabandhams, and the great Āchāryas wrote commentaries upon it. Swami Vedānta Deshikan's commentary on it bears the name Munivāhana Bhogam, after the title the Āzhwār received when he was carried by a sage.