Questions tagged [divya-prabhandham]
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How do Sri Vaishnavas know that the Alwars were incarnations of Nitya Suris?
How do Sri Vaishnavas know that the Alwars were incarnations of Nitya Suris?
Nitya Suris are the eternally inhabitants of Vaikunta who have never entered samsara.
The Alwars were ancient Tamil ...
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What is the pramanya of the Naalayira Divya Prabhandham?
The Naalayira Divya Prabhandham are 4,000 verses in Tamil spoken by ancient Tamil Vaishnava saints (Alwars) that are revered by Sri Vaishnavas.
They are so important that they are epistemologically ...
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Historical evidence for time period of Nathamuni
Alkondaville Govindacharya's work on the life of Ramanujacharya mentions that Nathamuni lived for a total of 540 years (pg 12). The book begins by stating that in the year 916 A.D. when Yamunacharya ...
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Where can I find the side by side compilation of the vedic verses and their tamil counterparts from Nalayira Divya Prabhandham?
We have the Naalaayira Divyaprabhandham in Tamil, a composition of 4000 verses from 12 Alwars. Among them, Nammalwar is considered as "One who gave the vedas in Tamil" through 1352 verses of the 4000. ...
