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Vaishnavism (Vaishava dharma)

Source: Acta Orientalia vol. 74 (2013): Historical sequence of the Vaiṣṇava Divyadeśas

Naimicāraṇyam refers to one of the 108 Vaishnava Divya Desam (divyadeśas or divyasthalas), located in the topographical division of Vaṭanāṭu (“North India”), according to the 9th century Nālāyirativviyappirapantam (shortly Nālāyiram).—Tradition would record the Vaiṣṇava divyadeśas or divyasthalas are 108. The divyadeśa is a base of the cult of Viṣṇu in Viṣṇuism [Vaiṣṇavism] tradition. The list of 108 [viz., Naimicāraṇyam] seems to have reached maturation by about the early 9th century CE as all the deśas are extolled in the hymns of the twelve Āḻvārs.

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Vaishnava (वैष्णव, vaiṣṇava) or vaishnavism (vaiṣṇavism) represents a tradition of Hinduism worshipping Vishnu as the supreme Lord. Similar to the Shaktism and Shaivism traditions, Vaishnavism also developed as an individual movement, famous for its exposition of the dashavatara (‘ten avatars of Vishnu’).

Kavya (poetry)

Source: Google Books: The Transformation of Tamil Literature in Nineteenth-Century South India

Naimicāraṇyam refers to the Sanskrit Naimiṣāraṇya as mentioned in the Amparppurāṇam.—[...]It appears that many of the cittirakkavi [viz., ‘pictorial poems’] compositions now known were composed during the nineteenth century. In the biographies of the poets, such verses are usually embedded into anecdotes that emphasize the poet’s mastery of language. Mīṉāṭcicuntaram Pillai’s magnum opus Amparppurāṇam (1869) has one entire chapter containing more than thirty stanzas which rehearse the various possibilities of cittirakkavi. The following four examples from this chapter shall suffice to show Mīṉāṭcicuntaram’s mastery over this form of collaṇi. All the stanzas of this chapter describe the beautiful nature of the Naimica forest (Skt. naimiṣāraṇya), a sacred place where ascetics and sages perform their penance and which forms the conventional backdrop for the story of the purāṇam.

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Kavya (काव्य, kavya) refers to Sanskrit poetry, a popular ancient Indian tradition of literature. There have been many Sanskrit poets over the ages, hailing from ancient India and beyond. This topic includes mahakavya, or ‘epic poetry’ and natya, or ‘dramatic poetry’.

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Partial matches: Naimica.

Full-text: Naimica, Vatanatu.

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