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
- Which is not the pada or quadrant of Patanjali Yogasutra:
- Which of the following is not a part of Tripitaka or the "Threefold Basket"
- Arrange the following saints in chronological order.
A. Sambandhar
B. Puneetavati
C. Appar
D. Sundarar
Choose the correct answer from the options given below: - Which of the following is NOT a principle of Jainism?
In Jain religion, the Svetambara canon consists of how many of Agamas?
