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Nammāḻvār (literally, ‘our Āḻvār’) is one of the twelve Āḻvārs, Tamil Vaiṣṇava saint-poets, who lived between the sixth and ninth centuries. He is the author of Tiruvāymoḻi, revered as the Tamil Vedas by the Śrīvaiṣṇavas, as well as Tiruviruttam, Tiruvāciriyam, and Periya Tiruvantāti, which are all part of the Śrīvaiṣṇava canon, the Nālāyirativviyappirapantam (Table 1).
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Anandakichenin, S. (2018). Nammāḻvār. In: Jain, P., Sherma, R., Khanna, M. (eds) Hinduism and Tribal Religions. Encyclopedia of Indian Religions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1036-5_177-1
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