Nalayira Divya Prabandham
nālāyira divya prabandhamThe 'Four Thousand' Tamil verses of the Alvars, compiled around the tenth century and revered as the Tamil Veda.
Where this term appears
- The Bhakti Movement History
Their collected Vaishnava hymns came to be called the Nalayira Divya Prabandham , the "Four Thousand Divine Compositions," and the tradition honoured them with a startling title: the Tamil Veda.
- Shruti and Smriti: what counts as Hindu scripture? Scriptures
The collection, the Nalayira Divya Prabandham , was compiled in its present form by the teacher Nathamuni around the ninth or tenth century.
- The Pāñcarātra Saṃhitās Lineages
Their four thousand Tamil verses, the Nālāyira Divya Prabandham , became for their tradition a Tamil Veda, sung in the temples beside the Sanskrit, and they mapped a sacred geography of a hundred and eight divy…
- What is Vaishnavism? Lineages
Their hymns were gathered into a corpus of four thousand stanzas, the Nalayira Divya Prabandham , which the southern tradition reveres as a Tamil Veda.
- Who Was Ramanuja? Philosophy
…vars, twelve poet-saints whose thousands of verses — collected as the Nalayira Divya Prabandham , the Four Thousand — sang of a helpless, tearful, intensely personal love for Vishnu, in Tamil, in the idiom of t…