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Yoga / Hindu : Vaishnava (Krishna/Rama)
8th Century

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Timeline (8th Century)

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Original Language
Tamil
My dark one

Themes
  King
  Womb
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

Hymns for the Drowning: Poems for Vishnu by Nammalvar, Translated by A. K. Ramanujan
Nammalvar: (Makers of Indian Literature), Translated by A. Srinivasa Raghavan

My dark one
stands there as if nothing's changed
after taking entire
into his maw
all three worlds
the gods
and the good kings
who hold their lands
as a mother would
a child in her womb--

and I
by his leave
have taken him entire

and I have him in my belly
for keeps.

 

 

-- from Hymns for the Drowning: Poems for Vishnu by Nammalvar, Translated by A. K. Ramanujan

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