Mangalasasanam () refers to a religious concept from the Sri Vaishnava tradition of Vaishnavism, where a devotee offers their salutations and felicitations upon God due to a profound sense of concern for the latter, and also as an exercise of forgetting their sense of self.

Hymns

The concept of mangalasasanam is often associated with the pasurams (verses) of the Alvars, who during the early medieval period of Tamil history (between the 7th and 10th centuries CE), worshipped Vishnu and his avatars through their hymns. This collection of their hymns is known as the Naalayira Divya Prabhandham. The Sri Vaishnava shrines that were extolled by the Alvars are called the Divya Desams, where a number of these poet-saints offered their mangalasasanam. Number of pasurams 1 2 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 20 21 22 24 27 32 33 36 39 40 42 45 47 50 51 110 128 202 247 Number of Divya Desams 15 8 2 2 2 1 1 23 14 8 5 3 1 2 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1

Classification

The below table provides a classification for the mangalasananams offered by the Alvars: Prabandam (Hymns) Alvars (poet-saints) Number of pasurams Mudal Āyiram (First thousand) 947 Tiruppallandu Periyalvar 10 Periyalvar Tirumoli Periyalvar 463 Tiruppavai Andal 30 Nachiyar Tirumoli Andal 143 Perumal Tirumoli Kulashekhara 105 Tiruchanda Virutham Thirumalisai Alvar 120 Tirumalai Thondaradippodi Alvar 45 Tiruppalli Thondaradippodi Alvar 10 Amalānathipiran Thiruppaan Alvar 10 Kanninum Siru Thāmbu Madhurakavi Alvar 11 Periya Tirumoli (Great Hymns) 1134 Periya Tirumoli Thirumangai Alvar 1084 Thiru Kurun Thāndagam Thirumangai Alvar 20 Thiru Nedun Thāndagam Thirumangai Alvar 30 Mundram Āyiram (Third thousand) 701 Mudal Tiruvantati Poigai Alvar 100 Irandām Tiruvantati Bhoothatalvar 100 Moondrām Tiruvantati Peyalvar 100 Nānmugan Tiruvantati Thirumalisai Alvar 96 Tiruviruttam Nammalvar 100 Thiru Vāsiriyam Nammalvar 7 Periya Thiru Andaathi Nammalvar 87 Thiruveḻukutrirukkai Thirumangai Alvar 1 Siriya Thirumadal Thirumangai Alvar 1 (40) Periya Thirumadal Thirumangai Alvar 1 (77) Ramanuja Nootrantati Tiruvarangathu Amuthanar 108 Tiruvaymoli 1102 Tiruvaymoli Nammalvar 1102

Gallery

Some of the famous Divya Desams the mangalasanams were uttered include the following temples:

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