Alvar
āḻvārOne of the twelve Tamil Vaishnava poet-saints, 'those immersed in God', whose hymns to Vishnu make up the Nalayira Divya Prabandham.
Where this term appears
- The Bhakti Movement History
…e sixth and ninth centuries, and there were two families of them. The Alvars, twelve in number, were lost in love for Vishnu.
- The History of Sanatana Dharma: A Timeline History
Sanatana Dharma has no founder and no single date of birth. It is the cumulative tradition of the Indian subcontinent, built up over more than three thousand years,…
- The Tamil Stream: Sangam, Bhakti, and the Temple South History
The Nayanars , sixty-three of them, sang to Shiva . The Alvars , twelve, sang to Vishnu .
- Shruti and Smriti: what counts as Hindu scripture? Scriptures
In the Tamil south, the Sri Vaishnava tradition reveres a body of 4,000 Tamil verses composed by twelve poet-saints called the Alvars , who lived roughly between the fifth and eighth centuries.
- The Bhakti Saints Philosophy
The first singers: Alvars and Nayanars The movement crystallised first in the Tamil south, in two parallel streams that ran from roughly the sixth to the ninth centuries.
- The Four Streams of Hinduism Essentials
In the Tamil south there is a further treasure, the hymns of the Alvars , twelve poet-saints of the sixth to ninth centuries whose Divya Prabandham is revered as a Tamil Veda.
- The Pāñcarātra Saṃhitās Lineages
The twelve Āḻvārs , who lived across roughly the sixth to ninth centuries and included the towering Nammāḻvār and the one woman among them, Āṇṭāḷ, poured out their longing to the Vishnu of particular shrines.
- Tirupati: The Temple of Venkateshwara Temples
Tirumala is one of the 108 Divya Desam s, the holy abodes of Vishnu celebrated in the songs of the Alvars .