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Naalayira Divya Prabandham

Work of Tamil Hindu literature

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
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The Naalayira Divya Prabandham is a collection of 4,000 Tamil verses composed by the 12 Alvars. It was compiled in its present form by Nāthamuni during the 9th–10th centuries. The work, an important liturgical compilation by the Tamil Alvars who lived between the 5th and 8th centuries CE, marked the formal canonisation of the twelve Vaishnava poet-saints, and its hymns are still sung extensively today.

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This entry incorporates text from “Naalayira Divya Prabandham” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.