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Tiruvaciriyam

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O Lord with lotus-red feet that strode the Earth! Wearing the red clouds as vestments, the radiant Sun as a diadem, the pleasing Moon on your person, and stars spangled all over, with red coral lips, and green-radiance spreading emerald mountains, you lie in the arms of the sea-lord, seeming like one
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Wearing a yellow vestment, a crown, and many golden jewels, the red of your eyes and lips glowing, the green of your body overpowering the red, in the middle of the Ocean of Milk, on a serpent with many
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You recline in deep sleep where all the gods led by Siva, Brahma, and Indra stand and offer worship. O Lord without a peer or superior, with a lotus on your navel!
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The Sacred Book Of Four Thousand 01 Nalayira Divya Prabandham Sri Rama Bharati 2000
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Painting of Vishnu upon Shesha, Sri Appan Venkatachalapati Temple, Cheranmahadevi.
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The first hymn of the work describes Vishnu reclining upon his serpent-mount,
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Tiruviruttam
Periya Tiruvantati

Hinduism
Nammalvar
Tamil
Tamil
lit.
Nammalvar
Alvars
Sri Vaishnava
Nalayira Divya Prabandham
Hindu
Vishnu
Yajurveda
a series
Vaishnavism
Closeup of Vishnu, seated in the lotus position on a lotus. From depiction of the poet Jayadeva bowing to Vishnu, Gouache on paper Pahari, The very picture of devotion, bare-bodied, head bowed, legs crossed and hands folded, Jayadeva stands at left, with the implements of worship placed before the lotus-seat of Vishnu who sits there, blessing the poet.
Vishnu
Krishna
Rama
Dashavatara
Matsya
Kurma
Varaha
Narasimha
Vamana
Parasurama
Rama
Balarama

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