Tiruppavai, Andal’s composition, is a concise version of the Vedas and shows devotees the way to attain Krishna’s feet, said Damal Perundevi. Why does Andal wake up Nandagopala, Yashodha and ...

In new retellings of Andal, she is whitewashed and sanitised. It is emotional, not erotic. She is made a subservient and submissive devotee, the symbol of jiva-atma, pining for Krishna ...

These verses can be understood as, “Andal assumes that Krishna, himself takes the water from the sea, goes up in the sky and fills it in the clouds and shoots his arrow — saarangam — for the ...

Bhakti poet Andal, Marathi mystic Dhyaneshwar and Tamil poet Subramania Bharati have all used birds as rich metaphorical ...

on Krishna; and his bhaktas. His series dedicated to Andal is evidence for the ages. Darshan – the glance of the devotee and ...