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The Agastya Selection of Tamil Saivite Hymns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

M. S. H. Thompson
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Tevaram , a condensed and figurative expression, means “a garland of verse addressed to God”, with the added idea that devotion is the “thread” on which the several “flowers” or verses are strung. It thus forms a very fitting title for the devotional songs of the three saints, Appar, Sundarar, and Sambandar, the greatest of the sixty-three exponents of the Śaivite religion in the Tamil country.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , February 1928 , pp. 761 - 768
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1928

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1 Translated “A bow to Śiva” and “Hail, Śiva”.