(i) ‘Pūvai’ is a nice-looking, tiny bird.
(ii) Here is a thrilling anecdote. With declining health, Peria Tirumalai Nambi, one of the five Preceptors of Śrī Rāmānuja, became too feeble to offer the diurnal worship to the household Deity-Lord Kṛṣṇa, given the pet name of ‘The little one dancing for butter’. And so, one day, drawing aside the drapery that hung before
In this eighth pāśuram of the chapter, Śrī Nammāzhvār, embodied as Parāṅkuśa Nāyakī, turns her attention to a pet pūvai bird, a beautiful myna, which she herself has lovingly raised. The pūrvācāryas note that as the Nāyakī's emotional turmoil reached its peak, the myna, which had hitherto sustained itself by listening to her expressions of love, has also become exhausted,