Hymns for the drowning: poems for Visnu
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Nammalvar
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Fiction
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2014;2005
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Penguin Books
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English
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The poems in this book are some of the earliest about Visnu, one of the Hindu Trinity, also known as Tirumal, the Dark One. Tradition recognizes twelve alvars, saint-poets devoted to Visnu, who lived between the sixth and ninth century in the Tamil-speaking region of south India. These devotees of V