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The fourth hymn proclaims Vishnu's supremacy over other deities, celestial objects, and the five elements: [10] The lord who is master of Indra and Brahma appears as the five elements earth, water, fire, air and space, the poetry of Tamil and the Sanskrit Vedas.
Brahma worshipped the idol with deep obeisance for a long time, and in the Varaha Kalpa, he gifted it to a sage named Sutapas and his wife Prashni, who were meditating upon Vishnu for begetting a child. Sutapas and Prashni continued their prayer after getting the idol, and finally Vishnu appeared before them.
Transliteration: Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu, Guru Devo Maheshwara, Guru Sakshat Parabrahma, Tasmai Shri Gurave Namah. Meaning: This shloka praises the Guru, identifying them as the creator (Brahma), the preserver (Vishnu), and the destroyer (Shiva), ultimately recognizing the Guru as the supreme reality.
Tirumurai (Tamil: திருமுறை, meaning Holy Order) is a twelve-volume compendium of songs or hymns in praise of Shiva in the Tamil language from the 6th to the 11th century CE by various poets in Tamil Nadu. Nambiyandar Nambi compiled the first seven volumes by Appar, Sambandar, and Sundarar as Tevaram during the 12th century.
The Tiruchanda Viruttam (Tamil: திருச்சந்த விருத்தம், romanized: Tirucandaviruttam) is a Tamil Hindu work of literature written by the poet-saint Tirumalisai Alvar, comprising 120 pasurams (hymns). [1] [2] It is a part of the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, the Sri Vaishnava canon of the Alvars. [3]
In this hymn, Vishnu is extolled as the Supreme Being. [2] It is venerated as one among the five hymns from the Vedas called the Pancha Sukta by Vaishnavites, the other four usually being the Purusha Sukta, the Sri Sukta, the Bhu Sukta, and the Nila Sukta. Some commentators see it as a mystical appendix to the Purusha Sukta. [3]
The deity Vishnu, addressed in these poems, is also exalted in Sanskrit myth and epic. In this poem, Vishnu is himself a symbol of the coalescence between Tamil and Sanskrit literatures. Nammalvar's poems are addressed to Tirumal or Mayon, "the dark one," the god of the mullai landscape and of Sangam poems, identified with Vishnu. Sanskrit ...
The Tirumurukarruppatai was likely included in this corpus for god Shiva, because Murugan is one of his sons and the historic reverence for the text. [7] The text is part of these two anthologies, but in some Tamil Hindu communities, the Tirumurukarruppatai manuscripts are found as a separate text, on its own, as a devotional guide.