Thursday, March 15, 2007

Nalayira Divya Prabandham

Nalayira Divya Prabandham is a collection of 4000 pasurams (short songs) in praise of the Sriman Narayana. It is also called the Dravida (Tamil) Vedam. Sri Nathamuni compiled these songs written by the twelve Alvars. Also this is considered to be one of the oldest contributions to Tamil Poetry.
Today we have the 4000 songs because of Sri Nathamuni. It is good to see the 4000 pasurams published in the internet in English / Tamil / Sanskrit and many more languages which can be downloaded freely from the internet from various sites.
I do not see any explanation (commentary) of the 4000 hymns in any language in the internet. Of course there are books published with the commentry which are copy righted material. With the Internet becoming a massive communication/data sharing medium we must have such works published in the websites downloadable at free of cost.
Does any one know if such articles/web links exist? If yes it would be great to share the information with the numerous audience who are interested in such works for religious, knowledge and literary purpose.
Mohan Raman V

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