The elder’s share in the wedding of lord vigneswarar

The elder's share in the wedding of lord vigneswarar

 

Next, the wedding of the younger brother lord subramanyar. It is the wedding with goddess valli which we perform as a festival. This wedding story gives space for describing it in an exciting manner with story telling, lectures, drama, cinema, and dance drama.

 

Most people generally know the story – that because the lord vigneswarar sped as an elephant in musth chasing the girl valli, she fell in the hands of the lord subramanyar. In this episode, the elder brother lord demonstrated that the elder is not "dull" but greater than the bull, a musth elephant. In fact, it was the younger brother who was motionless, worrying why he could not woe the girl valli to join him. Afterwards, the great c-i-c of the angel army, realized that only if he prayed to his elder brother his obstacle will go away. He mentally called the lord vigneswarar for help. The lord immediately came forward to help his younger brother and came in the form of a musth elephant and chased girl valli, and united her with his brother. The lines in "kaithala niraikani" song in praise of lord vigneswarar end narrating this. In this, the ending is "small subramanyar". Before this when he was even smaller subramanyar, he had vanquished sura and became so famous, to be later quoted by lord Krishna in the bhagavat Geeta as "I am the lord subramanyar among commander-in-chiefs" [senaninam aham skanda:]. Such a person when he was a youth, was motionless unable to attract an ordinary hunter girl valli. The small in arunagiri nathar's song "siru" - was used, indicating this despondent situation and not his age. The big person who helped with success at that time was none other than lord vigneswarar.

 

That is why, the title 'big person" used in the end of the thiru pukazh, the songs in praise of lord subramanyar is used in this verse to refer to the lord vigneswarar. It is special that the poet arunagirinadhar who had the lord subramanyar as his favourite deity, chose to call him "small" and refered to the lord vigneswarar as the big person.

 

Therefore, the lord vigneswarar had a direct part in the wedding of the lord subramanyar. We may even say that he played a key role.