Chapter 8: Weaving Garlands of Love: Devotional Literature in the Hindu Traditions
Nammalvar
Painting of Nammalvar under the tamarind tree, Sri Rangam Temple.<br />January, 1990.
Tiruppavai Festival in December
Kothai (“bouquet of flowers”) is another name for Andal
School girls enact the poet-saint Andal’s love for Vishnu during the Tiruppavai Festival. Chennai, December 1995.
Icon of Andal in the Baysview Temple, Toronto. November, 2002.
This vanity license plate adorns a car which belongs to a
person who hails from Sri Villiputtur, the birth place of Andal.
Photo taken in the car park of the Hindu Temple of Atlanta, c.2002.
