In which of the following are the songs of Alvar saints compiled?
Divya Prabandham
The question asks in which text the devotional songs of the Alvar saints were compiled.
The Alvars were Tamil Vaishnava poet-saints of South India who, during the Bhakti movement (roughly 6th-9th centuries CE), sang in Tamil in praise of Lord Vishnu.
Their roughly 4,000 hymns were gathered by Nathamuni into a single anthology called the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, often simply the Divya Prabandham.
Ettutogai is wrong because it is a Sangam-age anthology of secular classical Tamil poetry, not Vaishnava devotion.
Tipitaka is wrong because it is the Buddhist canon in Pali, and Adi-Purana is wrong because it is a Jain text on the first Tirthankara; neither holds Alvar hymns.
Hence the songs of the Alvar saints are compiled in the Divya Prabandham.
Important Questions from Religious Movements
Who among the following laid the foundation of Golden Temple?
By what name are the teachings of Shankardeva who was the main propagator of Vaishnavism, addressed in the late fifteenth century?
In Kashmir, which Sufi Silsilah was popular in Medieval period, which draw inspiration from the Saivite Bhakti tradition ?
In the Brahmaputra valley and the Cooch-Bihar, who was the prominent Bhakti Saint during the medieval times ?
The following two were the saints of Krishna Bhakti Branch
1. Tulsidas
2. Surdas
3. Kabir
4. Mira Bai
Select the correct codes :
