[Footnote 570: Called the Dasasloki. It is translated in Bhandarkar's _Vaishn and Saivism_, pp. 63-5.]
[Footnote 571: Also spelt Alvar and Azhvar. The Tamil pronunciation of this difficult letter varies in different districts. The word apparently means one who is drowned or immersed in the divine love. Cf. _Azhi_, the deep sea; _Azhal_, being deep or being immersed.]
[Footnote 572: An educated Vaishnava told me at Srîrangam that devas and saints receive the same homage.]
[Footnote 573: It is possible that the poems attributed to Namm'ârvâr and other saints are really later compositions. See _Epig. Ind_. vol. VIII. p. 294.]
[Footnote 575: Bhandarkar (_Vaishn. and Saivism_, p. 50) thinks it probable that Kulasekhara, one of the middle Ârvârs, lived about 1130. But the argument is not conclusive and it seems to me improbable that he lived after Nâthamuni.]
[Footnote 576: The first called Mudal-Âyiram consists of nine hymns ascribed to various saints such as Periyârvar and Andal. The second and third each consist of a single work the Periya-tiru-mori and the Tiru-vay-mori ascribed to Tiru-mangai and Namm'ârvâr respectively. The fourth part or Iyar-pa is like the first a miscellany containing further compositions by these two as well as by others.]
[Footnote 577: Nityânusandhânam series: edited with Telugu paraphrase and English translation by M.B. Srinivasa Aiyangar, Madras, 1898.]
[Footnote 578: The best known is the Guru-paramparâ-prabhâvam of Brahmatantra-svatantra-swâmi. For an English account of these doctors see T. Râjagopala Chariar, _The Vaishnavite Reformers of India_, Madras, 1909.]
[Footnote 579: Âgamaprâmânya. He also wrote a well-known hymn called Âlavandâr-Stotram and a philosophical treatise called Siddhi-traya.]
[Footnote 580: He states himself that he followed Boddhâyana, a commentator on the Sûtras of unknown date but anterior to Sankara. He quotes several other commentators particularly Dramida, so that his school must have had a long line of teachers.]
[Footnote 581: See _Gazetteer of India_, vol. XXIII. s.v. There is a Kanarese account of his life called Dibya-caritra. For his life and teaching see also Bhandarkar in _Berichte VIIth Int. Orient. Congress_, 1886, pp. 101 ff. Lives in English have been published at Madras by Alkondaville Govindâcârya (1906) and Krishnaswami Aiyangar (? 1909).]