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The Vedas are the cow; the true agamas are its milk; the Tamil sung by the four [the authors of the first eight books of the Tirumurai, i.e. Tevaram and Tiruvacakam] is its ghee; the essence of the book in Tamil [i.e. Sivagnana Botham] written by Meykatar of the famous Venney is the taste of the ghee of great knowledge
The Alvars (Tamil: ஆழ்வார், romanized: Āḻvār, lit. 'The Immersed') were the Tamil poet-saints of South India who espoused bhakti (devotion) to the Hindu preserver deity Vishnu, in their songs of longing, ecstasy, and service. [2] They are venerated in Vaishnavism, which regards Vishnu as the Ultimate Reality.
The temple occupies an area of 156 acres (631,000 m 2) with a perimeter of 4,116m (10,710 feet) making it the largest temple in India and one of the largest religious complexes in the world. [23] [24] The annual 21-day festival conducted during the Tamil month of Margazhi (December–January) attracts 1 million visitors. [25] 2 Thiruparkadal ...
Amṛtānandamayī has recorded more than 1,000 bhajans, or devotional songs, in 35 languages. [35] She has also composed dozens of bhajans and set them to traditional ragas. Regarding devotional singing as a spiritual practice, Amṛtānandamayī says, "If the bhajan is sung with one-pointedness, it is beneficial for the singer, the listeners ...
Periya Puranam, the eleventh-century Tamil book on the Nayanars that forms the last volume of the Tirumurai, primarily had references only to Tevaram and subsequently expanded to 12 parts. [83] One of the first anthologies of Sambandar, Appar, and Sundarar's hymns, the Tevara Arulmuraitirattu , is linked to Tamil Shaiva Siddhantha philosophy by ...
The tradition of Tamil music goes back to the earliest period of Tamil history. Many poems of the Sangam literature , the classical Tamil literature of the early common era , were set to music. There are various references to this ancient musical tradition found in the ancient Sangam books such as Ettuthokai and Pathupattu .
Devotional music genres such as Bhajan are part of a tradition that emerged from these roots. [ 16 ] However, bhajans rose to prominence as a way of expressing fervent devotion to the divine, breaking down barriers of caste and society, during the Bhakti and Sant movements of medieval India (about the 6th to the 17th centuries).
Carvaan Mini is a portable music player with multiple variants of Bhakti, Rabindrasangeet, and Gurbani. Other variants have a collection of 351 songs dedicated to Hindi legends, Marathi legends, Bengali legends, Kannada legends, Malayalam legends, Tamil legends, Telugu legends, and Carvaan Mini M. S. Subbulakshmi, consisting of 351 songs.