Pagal Kaṇḍēn – I beheld a glorious dawn. The days preceding this were engulfed in profound darkness. Unlike those dark days, I witnessed the dawn. Just as Akrūra proclaimed in Śrī Viṣṇu Purāṇam 5.17.2, "suprabhātā ca mē niśā" ("my night has turned into a beautiful dawn today itself"), on the day he set out to see Kṛṣṇa, Āzhvār echoes this sentiment. There exists