The Colas c33.59

c33.59

¹² *Divyasūricaritra*, xvi, 13-21. The same story is repeated with some natural embellishments, in the Guruparamparas. The main differences introduced by the later account are: (a) the visitors to Vīranārāyaṇapuram, from whose recitation of a hymn Nāthamuni learned of the existence of the hymns, are stated to have come from the Western country, and not Kurugūr. (b) At Kurugūr, Nāthamuni is told definitely by Parāṅkuśadāsa, a pupil of Madhurakavi, that the *Tiruvāymoḻi* and other sacred literature had been lost for a long time. (c) All the 4,000 hymns, not only the one thousand and odd of Śaṭhakopa, are revealed to Nāthamuni.