Story of Thirumalisai Alwar

Thirumalisai Alwar is otherwise known as Bhaktasaar Yogi. He belonged to 3102 BCE. He composed 96 poems which are known as Naanmugan Thiruvandhathi and 120 poems which are known as Thiruchanda Virutham. He was believed as the avatar of Vishnu's chakra Sudarshana.

 NaanmuganThiruvanthadi:

Since it was composed in the unique Tamil poetic form called Andhati,the garland of words are found as follows:

        Thernthu-Therntha, Paal-Paal, Aaru-Aaru, Thokuttu-Thokuttu, and so on to form the garland of words like the last word of the first poem forms the first word of the next poem to form the garland of words beautifully. Naanmugan thiruvanthadi is generally recited during the start of ceremonial procession of utsava Murthy of Vishnu in all temples. In his first poem of NaanMugan thiruvanthadi Thirumalisai Alwar says that only Narayan had created Brahma with four heads. Brahma himself created Rudra, that is, Shiva as his son who symbolises Samsarism which is the early life that is the main source of Jeevatma. So according to him the supreme creater is Narayanan and Narayanan created Brahma and Shiva which was told in Vedas and Upanishads. From the first poem one can acknowledge that Thirumalisai Alwar had the great knowledge about Vedas, Upanishads, Valmiki Ramayan, Mahabharat,etc.

Thiruchanda Virutham:

Chand means melodious song and Virutham means a type of composing poems. Since Thirumalisai Alwar composed 120 Viruthams with the sweet melodies, these poems are grouped as Thiruchanda virutham. This group is placed among the first thousand poems of Nalayira Divya Prabandham. Alwar offers in his poems the detailed account of the life of Vishnu in his forms of Krishna, Rama, Vamana and Venkateshwara. He gives the detail life of Krishna as slaying of asuras, killing the demoness by sucking her poisonous milk and as a chariot driver in the kurukshetra war. In the poem 30, he says that Sri Rama is the only one who processes the victorious bow with which he aimed the darts of clay balls to set straight the hunched back of Kooni.