Tiruppan

Tiruppan, was one of the “later” or “minor” South Indian poet-saint devotees of Vishnu known as the Āḻvārs. Very little is known about either the work or the life of Tiruppan. His name means “the saint who was a bard,” and legend has it that Tiruppan was indeed a member of this group, which, by the 9th or 10th centuries, had become an “untouchable” caste. A Tamil poem attributed to Tiruppan (the Amalan ati piran)...