VĪRABHADRĀṢṬOTTARAM’ RECENT TRENDS IN REVIVALISM OF THE HINDU SCRIPTURES

“The customary duty is to get up from bed early in the morning, read and learn the scriptures that are the heritage of the prodigious writings of seers of the antiquarian generation. What all we read and meditate pertain to the glories of the Lord’s feet. He is the holder of the great Disc.” Poykai Āḻvār’s Tiruvantāti I, 66, Rajarajan et al. (2017). Very few scholars working on South and Southeast Asian scriptures, temple architecture, and sculpture have employed the nāmāvaḷīs of the Hindu gods and goddesses from the art historical point of view, e.g., professors Ratan Parimoo, Hans Bakar and Raju Kalidos. I have followed their footsteps to work on a neo-piece of work, i.e. ‘Vīrabhadrāṣṭottaram’, whose author is unknowni.