Tradition recognizes 12 avatars devoted to Visnu who lived in the 6th and 9th century in the Tamil speaking region of South India.

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This is the first full-length study of the devotional poetry and poetics of the fourteenth-century poet-philosopher Vedantadesika, one of the most outstanding a