The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1475 page)

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Tamil poet and holy man, a
Saivite
devotee, one of the
N
ya
m
rs
. He became one of the greatest of the poets of devotion to
iva
. His most celebrated work,
Tiruv
cakam
(Sacred Utterances), is included in
Tirumurai
, a virtual
‘canon’
of
Tamil
aivism.
Maniple
.
A Christian
eucharistic
vestment
, worn over the left arm, or carried. The corresponding Orthodox vestment is the
epigonation
.
Man
Si
gh, Bh

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