A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism
author: Swami Harshananda
edition: 2008, Ramakrishna Math
pages: 2084
ISBN-13: 9788179070574
Topic: Hinduism
Encyclopaedia of Hinduism - Andal
This page describes Andal which is located on page 113 of the first volume in the book: A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism by Swami Harshananda. This book, known as “a concise encyclopaedia of hinduism”, includes a vast amount of topics covering general aspects on Hinduism, but also contains important aspects regarding Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Andal” according to 4 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 3 [by Surendranath Dasgupta]
Again, Pillan, the disciple and apostolic successor of Ramanuja, who commented on the Tiru-zay-moli of Namm -alvar, gives in a verse all the names of the Alvars, omitting only Andali. Thus it appears that Kula-shekhara was accepted as an Alvar in Ramahuja s time. In Vcnkatanatha s (fourteenth-century) list, contained in one of his Tamil Prabandhams, all the Alvars excepting Andali and Madhura-kaviy-alvar are mentioned....
Read full contents: Part 1 - The Chronology of the Alvars
Tiruvaymoli (Thiruvaimozhi): English translation [by S. Satyamurthi Ayyangar]
Shri Antali is found even more emphatic when she says in ‘Nacciyar Tirumoli that, if her beloved Lord would not come and embrace her, she would rather pluck out her breasts from their base, and throw them at Him. The breasts, as already explained earlier, signify the emotional upsurge, divine love, too deep for words....
Read full contents: Introduction to Section 4.8
Parama Samhita (English translation) [by Krishnaswami Aiyangar]
The works of the other Alvars including Andal are of the same general character, so that we may say definitely that the teaching of the Alivars is Bhagavataic or agamaic or Pancaratraic in character. Tirumangai Alivar lived in the 8th century after Christ, and the other Alivars go backward from him through five or six centuries in point of time—a period coeval with that of the Shaiva Adiyars, the Nayanmars of the Shiva school of bhakti....
Read full contents: The Pancaratra and the Tamil Alvars
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