Ayyappa Devotional Songs Malayalam: Ayyappaa sharanam Full Song Video from the album 'Swami Ayyappan' (2000) sung by M.G. Sreekumar featuring history of Sabarimala Lord Ayyappa temple.

Song: Ayyappa saranam saranamennayyappaa..
Album: Swami Ayyappan (2000)
Lyricist: S Ramesan Nair
Music Director: S Kumar
Singer: MG Sreekumar
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'Ayyappa' is a Hindu god popular in Kerala. He is a syncretic (union or combination) deity, viz the son of Lord Shiva and the female avatar of Lord Vishnu called Mohini. Ayyappa is also known as Ayyappan, Sastavu, Hariharasuthan, Manikanda or Dharma Shasta. The iconography of Ayyappa depicts him as a yogi god and as an epitome of Dharma, who wears a bell around his neck, so called him Manikanda. In the Hindu pantheon, his legends are relatively recent but diverse. For some, he is also an incarnation of Buddha or Dharma Shastha. Shasta is the name of a Hindu deity in India meaning teacher. The word Shasta was first used in the sense of a Hindu deity in South India during the 3rd century. He is identified with many deities like Aiyanar, Ayyappa, Guruswamy etc. He is honored by some Muslims in Kerala, with legends wherein Ayyappan defeats and gains worship of the Muslim brigand Vavar. In the Hindu tradition popular in the Western Ghats of India, he was born with the powers of Shiva and Vishnu to confront and defeat the shape shifting evil Buffalo demoness Mahishi. He was raised by a childless royal couple, and grows up as a warrior yogi champion of ethical and dharmic living.
Once there was a kingdom of Panthalam where Ayyappan originated. The royal family was childless. One day the king of Panthalam found a baby boy in a forest, believed to be born from the union of Shiva and Mohini. The king carried the baby to an ascetic in the forest to inquire about the boy. The ascetic advised the king to take the baby home, raise him like his own son, and that in 12 years he would discover who the kid was. The royal family did so, naming him Manikanda. The king wanted to formally coronate Manikanda as the heir prince. However, the queen under the influence of an evil minister objected. The minister had advised the queen that only her younger biological child should be the next king. The younger child was lacked the ability to perform the duties of the king, something that the scheming evil minister thought would make him the de facto ruler. He persuaded the queen to feign an illness, ask for 'tiger's milk' to cure her illness and demand that Manikanda be sent to get the milk from the forest. Manikanda volunteers, goes into the forest and returns riding a tigress. The king, realizing Manikanda's special ability recognizes the adopted son to be a divine being, resolves to make a shrine for him. For location, Manikanda shoots an arrow that lands kilometers away and then transforms into Lord Ayyappa. The place where arrow landed is known as Sabarimala Temple.