Periya Tirumozhi is the great temple travelogue of the corpus — over a thousand pasurams composed as Thirumangai Azhwar journeyed across the divya desams, from Badrinath in the Himalayas to the shrines of the deep south.
A chieftain-turned-saint with a poet's command of Tamil, Thirumangai opens with the celebrated account of his own transformation: discovering the name "Narayana" and finding in it everything he had ever stolen for.
வாடினேன் வாடி வருந்தினேன் மனத்தால் * பெருந் துயர் இடும்பையில் பிறந்து *
கூடினேன் கூடி இளையவர் தம்மோடு * அவர் தரும் கலவியே கருதி **
ஓடினேன் ஓடி உய்வது ஓர் பொருளால் * உணர்வு எனும் பெரும் பதம் தெரிந்து *
நாடினேன் நாடி நான் கண்டுகொண்டேன் * நாராயணா என்னும் நாமம் (1) **
Continue below to free reading pages for all 1084 pasurams with public-domain Tamil text. For independent commentary and other study material, each page links to its external Uveda source page.
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The pages are arranged in source-defined chapters where those groupings exist, and in clearly labelled neutral reading parts elsewhere, so the complete work remains easy to navigate without inventing traditional divisions.
How to memorise Periya Tirumozhi
Periya Tirumozhi runs from pasuram 948 to 2031 — 1084 pasurams in all. The app builds a daily plan around whatever pace you choose, so the pasurams arrive in small, repeatable portions rather than all at once.
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