{"id":220,"date":"2017-06-15T13:17:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T17:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/?page_id=220"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:42:22","slug":"chapter-8-weaving-garlands-of-love-devotional-literature-in-the-hindu-traditions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/a-hundred-autumns-to-live\/chapter-8-weaving-garlands-of-love-devotional-literature-in-the-hindu-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 8: Weaving Garlands of Love: Devotional Literature in the Hindu Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chapter 8: Weaving Garlands of Love: Devotional Literature in the Hindu Traditions<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nammalvar<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1773\" height=\"1195\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8-namanalvar.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8-namanalvar.jpg 1773w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8-namanalvar-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8-namanalvar-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8-namanalvar-1024x690.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8-namanalvar-200x135.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1773px) 100vw, 1773px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Painting of Nammalvar under the tamarind tree, Sri Rangam Temple.&lt;br \/&gt;January, 1990.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tiruppavai Festival in December<\/h3>\n\n\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-220 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"701\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8tiruppavai1-1024x701.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8tiruppavai1-1024x701.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8tiruppavai1-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8tiruppavai1-768x526.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8tiruppavai1-200x137.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8tiruppavai1.jpg 1751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-225'>\n\t\t\t\tKothai (&#8220;bouquet of flowers&#8221;) is another name for Andal\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"693\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8-tiruppavai2-1024x693.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8-tiruppavai2-1024x693.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8-tiruppavai2-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8-tiruppavai2-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8-tiruppavai2-200x135.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8-tiruppavai2.jpg 1768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-224'>\n\t\t\t\tSchool girls enact the poet-saint Andal&#8217;s love for Vishnu during the Tiruppavai Festival. Chennai,  December 1995.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8-andal.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8-andal.jpg 533w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8-andal-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/ch8-andal-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-223'>\n\t\t\t\tIcon of Andal in the Baysview Temple, Toronto. November, 2002.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"693\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/car-1024x693.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/car-1024x693.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/car-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/car-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/car-200x135.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/car.jpg 1758w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-222'>\n\t\t\t\tThis vanity license plate adorns a car which belongs to a \nperson who hails from Sri Villiputtur, the birth place of Andal.\nPhoto taken in the car park of the Hindu Temple of Atlanta, c.2002.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":884,"featured_media":0,"parent":152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-220","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/884"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220\/revisions\/871"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}