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Mangalasasanam (Sanskrit: मङ्गलाशासनम्, romanized: Maṅgalaśaṃsanam, lit. 'auspicious felicitations') refers to a Vaishnava concept in Hinduism, where a devotee offers their salutations and felicitations upon God due to a profound sense of concern for the latter, and also as an exercise of forgetting their sense of self.

Hymns

The concept of mangalasasanam is often associated with the pasurams (verses) of the Alvars, who during the early medieval period of Tamil history (between the 7th and 10th centuries CE), worshipped Vishnu and his avatars through their hymns. This collection of their hymns is known as the Naalayira Divya Prabhandham. The Sri Vaishnava shrines that were extolled by the Alvars are called the Divya Desams, where a number of these poet-saints offered their mangalasasanam.

Classification

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The below table provides a classification for the mangalasananams offered by the Alvars:

Gallery

Some of the famous Divya Desams the mangalasanams were uttered include the following temples:

• Srirangam Temple
• Varadaraja Perumal Temple
• Sarangapani Temple
• Srivilliputhur Temple
• Azhagar Kovil
• Tirupathi Venkateshwara Temple
• Appakkudathaan Perumal Temple
• Neelamegha Perumal Temple

Notes

1. Veṅkaṭanātha (1976). Yadavabhyudayam: A Kavya on the Life of Lord Krishna. Vedanta Desika Research Society. pp. PAGE CLXXXII.
2. Ramesh, M. S. (1995). 108 Vaishnavite Divya Desams. T.T. Devasthanams. p. 21.
3. "Azhwars and Naalaayira Divya Prabhandam | 108 Divya Desam". Archived from the original on 2012-03-26. Retrieved 2011-06-25.

References

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• Chari, S. M. Srinivasa (1997). Philosophy and Theistic Mysticism of the Āl̲vārs. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. ISBN 9788120813427.
• Dalal, Roshen (2011). Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide. Penguin Books India. ISBN 9780143414216.
• Das, Sisir Kumar; Sāhitya Akādemī (2005). A history of Indian literature, 500-1399: from courtly to the popular. chennai: Sāhitya Akādemī. ISBN 81-260-2171-3.
• Ramanujan, Attipat Krishnaswami (2005). Hymns for the Drowning: Poems for Vishnu. Penguin Books. ISBN 9780144000104.
• Govindāchārya, Aḷkoṇḍavilli (1902). The Holy Lives of the Azhvârs: Or, the Drâvida Saints. Mysore: G. T. A. Press. periyazhvar.

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Poigai Alvar Bhoothath Alvar Pey Alvar Tirumalisai Alvar Nammalvar Madhurakavi Alvar Kulasekhara Alvar Periyalvar Andal Thondaradippodi Alvar Thiruppaan Alvar Thirumangai Alvar
Divya Desams Divya Prabandha Mangalasasanam

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