Abirami Bhattar, the poet who praised Goddess Sakthi in his Abirami Andadi, describes Her look, stated M.A. Manickavelu in a discourse. He says the Goddess wears bangles, that are made from conches. These bangles are studded with multi-coloured beads. She is the embodiment of auspiciousness. All the humanities had been created by Her. There are stated to be 64 arts. She is the Mom of all of them. Her speech is an instance of how wonderful, nice, significant speech itself is an artwork. She is sort of a divine peacock. This peacock is the fountainhead of all of the wonderful arts. Bhattar describes Her as sakalakalaamayil (Abirami, the peacock, who’s the repository of all arts). The wonderful arts are Her feathers. She takes up one half of Lord Siva’s physique.
Abirami Bhattar recollects the descent of the river Ganga to the earth. The river got here with full drive, with the concept nobody was able to bearing the influence of her arrival on earth. However Lord Siva trapped her in His locks, thereby saving the earth from the influence. Siva’s act of trapping the mighty river additionally helped curb the pleasure of Ganga. There was a Tamil poet referred to as Kalamega Pulavar. He was requested to compose a verse with a line in it that spoke of the river Ganga being held in a pot (kutam). Kalamegha Pulavar got here up with a verse, which stated the river Ganga couldn’t be deterred by the sky, or by hills, or by the earth. However she was caught by Siva in His matted locks. The poet cleverly included the road he was requested to incorporate within the verse. His poem went: sataamakutathile gangai adangum, which means the Ganga was caught on the high of Siva’s sataamakuta (sataa — matted locks; makuta — high of). Take away the letters “sa-taa-ma.” You’re left with kutathile gangai adangum, which implies the river Ganga could be contained in a pot.
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