Named translation · pāsurams 2967–2979

Divine names as a devotional sequence in Tiruvāymoḻi 2967–2979

Hart’s translation moves through Nārāyaṇan, Madhavan, Govindan, Gopālan, Madhusudanan, Thirivikraman, Sridharan, Rishikesan, Padmanabhan, Dāmodaran, Kaṇṇan, and Neḍumāl. The names organize acts, images, and relations across the unit. Recording each occurrence preserves evidence; replacing the sequence with one normalized label would conceal how the poem builds devotional identity.

Direct answer

Why should this unit be indexed name by name?

Hart’s translation moves through Nārāyaṇan, Madhavan, Govindan, Gopālan, Madhusudanan, Thirivikraman, Sridharan, Rishikesan, Padmanabhan, Dāmodaran, Kaṇṇan, and Neḍumāl. The names organize acts, images, and relations across the unit. Recording each occurrence preserves evidence; replacing the sequence with one normalized label would conceal how the poem builds devotional identity.

Passage map

What the translated unit contains

Pāsurams 2967–2977 introduce a dense sequence of named forms.

The sequence connects names to conch, discus, dwarf, Lanka, and Veṅkaṭam imagery.

Pāsuram 2979 describes the preceding set as twelve pāsurams, so the unit is not forced into a ten-verse assumption.

Place and poetic voice

No single terrestrial place controls this unit; any cosmic, domestic, or natural setting remains part of the translated poetic scene.

First-person praise and direct address structured by a succession of names.

Divine names and identity relationships

  • Nārāyaṇan
  • Madhavan
  • Govindan
  • Gopālan
  • Madhusudanan
  • Thirivikraman
  • Sridharan
  • Rishikesan
  • Padmanabhan
  • Dāmodaran
  • Kaṇṇan
  • Neḍumāl

Nārāyaṇan, Madhavan, Govindan, Gopālan, Madhusudanan, Thirivikraman, Sridharan, Rishikesan, Padmanabhan, Dāmodaran, Kaṇṇan, Neḍumāl are indexed as names or related figures occurring in this unit. Co-occurrence does not make them context-free synonyms; identity is asserted only where the translated passage itself relates them.

Devotional context

The unit develops name-by-name progression; each name attached to an image, act, or relation; the concluding verse marks an exceptional twelve-verse unit within a translated devotional-poetic frame.

Occurrence-level name sequence

Single canonical replacement label

The first preserves the source’s structure; the second discards which name appears where and with what predicate.

Does not establish

The unit does not establish that all names have identical etymology, first date, semantic range, or use in other texts and communities.

Evidence layers

Five kinds of authority remain separate

Primary text
Pāsurams 2967–2979 identify the printed unit. This guide does not reproduce or claim to establish the critical Tamil wording.
Named translation
Every passage observation is bounded to Kausalya Hart’s English rendering and retains the exact numbered locator.
Scholarship
Attributed scholarship supplies literary and reception context; it does not silently rewrite or certify the passage.
Historical inference
Dating, institutional continuity, social practice, and material history require independent evidence and are not inferred from this unit alone.
Theology
Divine identities, promises, polemics, and supernatural acts are reported as claims made within the poem, not as externally certified facts.

Questions this passage guide answers

Why should this unit be indexed name by name?

Hart’s translation moves through Nārāyaṇan, Madhavan, Govindan, Gopālan, Madhusudanan, Thirivikraman, Sridharan, Rishikesan, Padmanabhan, Dāmodaran, Kaṇṇan, and Neḍumāl. The names organize acts, images, and relations across the unit. Recording each occurrence preserves evidence; replacing the sequence with one normalized label would conceal how the poem builds devotional identity.

tiruvaymoli-q081 · pāsurams 2967–2979

Which divine names occur in Tiruvāymoḻi 2967–2979?

The named translation uses Nārāyaṇan, Madhavan, Govindan, Gopālan, Madhusudanan, Thirivikraman, Sridharan, Rishikesan, Padmanabhan, Dāmodaran, Kaṇṇan, Neḍumāl in this unit. These are occurrence-level forms; the list is not a claim that every name is interchangeable in every text.

tiruvaymoli-q082 · pāsurams 2967–2979

What poetic voice is used in Tiruvāymoḻi 2967–2979?

First-person praise and direct address structured by a succession of names.

tiruvaymoli-q083 · pāsurams 2967–2979

What themes organize Tiruvāymoḻi 2967–2979?

name-by-name progression; each name attached to an image, act, or relation; the concluding verse marks an exceptional twelve-verse unit. Each description is bounded to this translated unit.

tiruvaymoli-q084 · pāsurams 2967–2979

What does Tiruvāymoḻi 2967–2979 not establish?

The unit does not establish that all names have identical etymology, first date, semantic range, or use in other texts and communities.

tiruvaymoli-q085 · pāsurams 2967–2979

Limits

  • The page describes a named English translation; it does not claim that its wording is identical to the Tamil source text or every other translation.
  • A theological claim made by a poetic speaker is evidence about the poem’s discourse, not independent empirical or historical verification.
  • One numbered unit cannot establish the whole theology, chronology, performance history, or reception of the Tiruvāymoḻi.

Still unresolved

  • How do the Tamil wording and other translations handle the key terms in pāsurams 2967–2979?
  • Which commentaries and performance traditions give this unit a different emphasis?

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