Poigai Alvar
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Poigai Alvar is one of the 12 Alvar saints of South India, who are known for their affiliation to Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism. The temples reverred by the verses of azhwars are termed Divya desam.
Poigai Alvar was born in a village near Kanchipuram in the seventh century CE. Poigai (pond in Tamil) was found as a baby near a pond of a Vishnu temple. Some Vaishnavas consider him to be an incarnation of Panchajanyam, the divine conch of Vishnu. Poigai Alvar's 100 hymns form the beginning of the Naalayira Divyap Prabhandham. Poigai Alwar's hymns start with the words Vaiyam Tagaliya, Varkadale Neyyaaga (I am singing these garland of verses(pasurams) and dedicating to Him, whose vision I had is the light of the lamp of the earth, and oil being the seas, the sun being the source of the light).
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