Avathārikai (Introduction)
In the preceding pāsuram, the Āzhvār meditated upon the glorious paradox of the Lord's Trivikramāvatāra, wherein Sriman Nārāyaṇa assumed a cosmic form of immeasurable vastness merely to perform the seemingly humble act of begging three paces of land from King Mahābali. Continuing this contemplation of the Lord's wondrous and contrary