tiruvasagam translated by G.U. Pope

THE CREATION OF THE WORLD. HE CAUSED THE PHENOMENAL UNIVERSE TO APPEAR. || This seems to the translator to read more like a work of Umapathi, than of our sage! || Lines 1-10 The Feet of Civan: While the Four-faced and other heavenly dwellers rose, Adoring, sacred MAl, whose head with rays is crowned, With […]

This poem has an introduction of twenty eight lines, after which the praises of Civan are intermingled with somewhat intricate but ingenious allegories. The whole partakes of the nature of a rhapsody, – not without some sublimity, – and can be fully appreciated by those only who have studied the whole Caiva system as shown […]