Not withstanding the MA's decision to celebrate 1975 as the birth anniversary, there isn't much of a consensus on what the English date of Dikshitar's Birth Anniversary is (24,25,26 - 1776 and some still use 1775). Even as they were singing the sahitya of the anupallavi Meena lochani Pasha mochani, he cast off his mortal coils. "It looks as though the Devi is liberating me from the bonds of this world. They began singing Meenakshi me mudam dehi in raga Gamakakriya. May you all sing kirtanas in her praise," said Dikshitar to disciples. "Today is Chaturdashi, a day sacred to the Devi. After the pooja, Dikshitar moved on to the drawing room where his disciples had assembled. He performed Navavarna pooja to the Devi and sang the kriti Ehi Annapoorne. Dikshitar remembered what Chidambara yogi had told him at Kasi: "She will give you not merely feed in this life but 'moksha' thereafter".ĭikshitar felt his end was nearing. Even as he was gazing on it, the vision vanished. In the month of Aswija, on the Chaturdashi preceding Deepavali, Muthuswamy Dikshitar woke up in the early hours, as was his practice, and after yogic practices went to take his bath.
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