TO PLUNGE WITHIN
Surya, Vasantha
Thiruvaimozhi, a significant work in the Tamil Vaishnava canon, was composed in the eighth century by Nammaazhwaar, 'our one
who goes deep', the most prominent of the twelve Vaishnava Aazhwaar saints. The poet ascribes this impressive 1, 100-verse work
not to himself but to one whom he visualizes as the very spirit of truth, from whose mouth it emerges as 'holy utterance'. Taken
as a whole, Thiruvaimozhi reflects a broad view of what the...