Hands that speak.
From the original text · Art and music histories
Matching stories: 23
Hands that speak.
From the original text · Art and music histories
Kambar's Tamil Ramayana, in six kandams, for the Tamil shelf.
From the original text · Oral tradition
Periyalvar's daughter and the flowers for Vishnu.
From the original text · The saints' own songs
Sixteen years under a tree.
From the original text · The saints' own songs
A secret mantra for everyone.
From the original text · The saints' own songs
A hot fruit or a cold one?
From the original text · The saints' own songs
The Tiruppavai for children.
From the original text · The saints' own songs
One question, one answer, a guru.
From the original text · The saints' own songs
Learning from a servant.
From the original text · The saints' own songs
One line for each letter.
From the original text · The saints' own songs
Rice flour for the ants.
From the original text · Art and music histories
The fruit of wisdom and a boy who walked away to Palani.
From the original text · Skanda Purana
How she walked into the temple at Srirangam.
From the original text · The saints' own songs
A temple rebuilt.
From the original text · The saints' own songs
What we know is a handful of sand.
From the original text · The saints' own songs
Fourteen towers of a thousand colours.
From the original text · Art and music histories
Raised gold and jewels.
From the original text · Art and music histories
The drum, the fire, the little demon under his foot.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
Clay and rhythm from the south.
From the original text · Art and music histories
The loom in Kanchipuram.
From the original text · Art and music histories
A hunter who gave what he had.
From the original text · Shiva Purana

Good luck rising.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
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