I WAS ENORMOUSLY GLAD TO FIND A STORY OF SHREE RAMANUJA-ACHARYA AND WRESTLER IN ONE OF "SAPTAGIRI" ISSUES. THIS IS A CLASSIC STORY FROM THE BIOGRAPHY OF SHREE RAMANUJA-ACHARYA, BUT IT IS NOT ALWAYS MENTIONED IN ENGLISH EDITIONS.
"Story of Urangavilli-dasan", Cited from "Ephemeral and Eternal" article by L.P. Sampath
Sri Ramanuja came to Srirangam after embracing asceticism to which order he had to induct himself while at Kancheepuram due to certain inevitable circumstances that served as a ruse for him to resort to such a course. This change in Sri Ramanuja's life was as it should be, as it was decreed by both Lord Ranganatha and Lord Varadaraja in unison.
During this period there lived in Karambanur (a Village near Srirangam) a wrestler who