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Mutal Tiruvantati

January 01, 1970

The Mutal Tiruvantati (Tamil: முதல் திருவந்தாதி, romanized: Mut̬al Tiruvant̬āt̬ī, lit. 'First sacred hymns')[1] is a Tamil Hindu work of literature composed by Poigai Alvar, one of the twelve Alvars of Sri Vaishnavism.[2] Comprising 100 verses[3] in the poetic meter called the antati, it is part of the compendium of hymns called the Nalayira Divya Prabandham.[4]

Mutal Tiruvantati
Painting of Varaha. Sri Appan Venkatachalapati Temple, Cheranmahadevi.
Information
ReligionHinduism
AuthorPoigai Alvar
LanguageTamil
Period9th–10th century CE
Verses100

Legend edit

According to Sri Vaishnava legend, Poigai Alvar once travelled to offer his veneration to Vishnu at the Ulagalantha Perumal temple at Tirukoilur. He met other two Alvars, Pey, and Bhutath, whom he did not know, but who had also chosen to coincidentally visit the temple during the same period. During an ensuing rainstorm, Poigai found some accommodation at a mandapam, and was asked by Pey if he could share some space in his room. Observing that there was a single bed present in the mandapam, Poigai remarked that it would be most convenient for an individual to lie down upon the bed, but two to be seated. During this very moment, Bhutath arrived, and expressed the desire to share the mandapam with the other two poet-saints. The trio decided that it would be most proper for an individual to lie down, two people to be seated, but the fact that there were three of them meant that it would be most suitable for all of them to stand. Thus, three poet-saints stood all night, and during the dawn, they felt the presence of a fourth entity in their midst. The force collided against them, and overwhelmed them so much that each of them composed hymns regarding their experience, in the form of an antati. The entity is proclaimed to be Perumal. The Mutal Tiruvantati is stated to be the hymns composed by Poigai Alvar, using the sunlight as his lamp.[5][6]

Hymns edit

The first hymn of the Mutal Tiruvantati elucidates his state of mind when Perumal overwhelmed him with his presence:[7][8]

With the earth as the lamp,
the sweeping oceans as melted butter,
and the sun with the fiery rays
as the flame;
I have woven a garland of words
for the feet of the Lord,
who bears the red flaming wheel,
so I can cross the ocean of grief.

— Mutal Tiruvantati, Hymn 1

Poigai Alvar also references the Vamana and the Varaha incarnations of Vishnu in this work:[9]

O Lord of discus! Taking a huge form you stretched your lotus feet and measured the Earth, even as the world feared and the celestials trembled. When you came as a huge boar and lifted the Earth on your tusk teeth, how did it not fall off, resting as it was on one tooth alone?

— Mutal Tiruvantati, Hymn 9

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Nair, Shantha (2014-01-07). Sri Venkateshwara. Jaico Publishing House. p. 70. ISBN 978-81-8495-445-6.
  2. ^ Rosen, Steven (1996). Vaiṣṇavī: Women and the Worship of Krishna. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. p. 219. ISBN 978-81-208-1437-0.
  3. ^ Pārttacārati, Intirā (2002). Vaisnavisam in Tamil Literature Between the 7th and 9th Centuries. International Institute of Tamil Studies. p. 48.
  4. ^ Kasturi, Geeta; N.V, Kasturi (2013-02-06). Understanding The Elemental Hindu Works. Lulu.com. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-291-31296-6.
  5. ^ Pillai, M. S. Purnalingam (1994). Tamil Literature. Asian Educational Services. p. 184. ISBN 978-81-206-0955-6.
  6. ^ Nammalwar (2014-05-15). A Hundred Measures of Time: Tiruviruttam. Penguin UK. p. 133. ISBN 978-93-5118-714-1.
  7. ^ Young, Katherine (2018-03-13). Her Voice, Her Faith: Women Speak On World Religions. Routledge. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-429-97965-1.
  8. ^ Bryant, Edwin F. (2007-06-18). Krishna: A Sourcebook. Oxford University Press. pp. 191–192. ISBN 978-0-19-028756-6.
  9. ^ Makarand Joshi. The Sacred Book Of Four Thousand 01 Nalayira Divya Prabandham Sri Rama Bharati 2000. p. 622.

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Sri Poigai Alvar's Mutal Tiruvantati (Text and commentary) - N Rajagopalan

January 01, 1970
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