tirumurai

Updated: May 18, 2025

Of the other works comprised in the Tirumurai the most important is the Tiruvâçagam of Mâṇikka-Vâçagar, one of the finest devotional poems which India can show. It is not, like the Bhagavad-gîtâ, an exposition by the deity, but an outpouring of the soul to the deity. It only incidentally explains the poet's views: its main purpose is to tell of his emotions, experiences and aspirations.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2