[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c8.1251 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.1251 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.1251 - **Language:** English ### [c8.1251](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1251) Nammālvār had another name Parāṅkuśa. Some believe that he was the incarnation of portions of Seneśa and the jewel Kaustubha. Some say that there are portions of Mahāviṣṇu, Pañcāyudha, Ādiśeṣa and Seneśa in Nammālvār. The Vaiṣṇavites have given Nammālvār a lofty place. The infant born to Kāriyār and Udayamañkayār was not an ordinary one. Generally infants at birth are covered with a case of air called ‘Śaṭha’. Because of this they lose the memory of previous birth. But Nammālvār had no Śaṭha. So he got the name ‘Śaṭhakopa’. The parents were amazed at the infant which lay still without beating its legs, and crying or sucking its mother’s breasts. The bright infant was taken to the Vaiṣṇavite temple on the twelfth day. Because of his difference from ordinary infants he was named Māra. A golden cradle studded with jewels was hung on the branch of a tamarind tree and laying the child in it, the parents went home. That tamarind tree still stands there. The devotees believe that that tree also is a portion of Ādiśeṣa. - [Previous: c8.1250](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1250) - [Next: c8.1252](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1252) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1251](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1251) · Pramāṇa