Chapter 8: Weaving Garlands of Love: Devotional Literature in the Hindu Traditions Nammalvar Painting of Nammalvar under the tamarind tree, Sri Rangam Temple.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.