Murugan devotion within a wider life of compassion

Ramalinga Adigal, widely known as Vallalar, was a nineteenth-century Tamil spiritual poet. His wider legacy is associated with compassion for living beings and the concern that spiritual life should reach those in need. The Murugan hymns form part of that larger body of writing and remembrance.

This page focuses on the Chennai Kandakkottam section in the first Thirumurai of Thiruvarutpa. It gives us a specific place to read his address to Murugan, without reducing his entire life and thought to a single poem. The surrounding collection offers further directions for study.