![]() ![]() Nammalvar is said to have stated that these “thousand songs are to be spread abroad by people of the Tamil land, musicians and devotees”. This is carried on through all 1,102 verses the last words of the poem are also the first words of the poem. ![]() A special feature of the poem is that it is in the style of an antati, that is, the last words of one verse forms the opening words of the next one. Each hundred is divided into 10 decads ( tiruvaymoli) 28 of 10 verses ( pasuram) each. The poem is divided into 10 sections ( pattu) of about 100 verses each. ![]() It is frequently referred to as the Tamil or Dravida Veda. It is the most prominent work of the Naalayira Divya Prabandham, a compilation of the Alvars towards the devotion of Vishnu. 'sacred utterances of the mouth') is a 1102-verse Tamil poem, composed in the ninth century by the Hindu poet-saint Nammalvar, who is regarded as the foremost of the Alvar saints of South India. ![]()
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