{"id":7515,"date":"2026-11-07T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/verse\/unmai-vilakkam-1\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T16:11:00","slug":"unmai-vilakkam-1","status":"publish","type":"verse","link":"https:\/\/tamil.one\/en\/verse\/unmai-vilakkam-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Unmai Vilakkam 1 \u00b7 \u0bb5\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0bae\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b86\u0b95\u0bae\u0ba8\u0bc2\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4 \u0baa\u0bca\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bb4\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bbe"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So that we may set forth this &#8216;Unmai Vilakkam&#8217;, the Light on Truth, without straying from what the bountiful Agamas teach, let us place in our minds, so that bondage may end, the five-handed Lord with the elephant&#8217;s face, the round belly and the colour of the evening sky, from whom the strong musth\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","kural_section":[],"literary_category":[63],"author_poet":[100],"thinai_type":[],"work_title":[101],"class_list":["post-7515","verse","type-verse","status-publish","hentry","literary_category-bhakti","author_poet-manavasagam-kadandar","work_title-unmai-vilakkam"],"acf":{"traditional_verse_number":"1","verse_sort":1,"tamil_verse_text":"\u0bb5\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0bae\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b86\u0b95\u0bae\u0ba8\u0bc2\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bc8\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4 \u0baa\u0bca\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bb4\u0bc1\u0bb5\u0bbe\n\u0b89\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0bae\u0bc8\u0bb5\u0bbf\u0bb3\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b89\u0bb0\u0bc8\u0b9a\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bcd\u0baf\u0ba4\u0bcd \u2013 \u0ba4\u0bbf\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0bae\u0ba4\u0bae\u0bcd\u0b9a\u0bc7\u0bb0\u0bcd\n\u0b85\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0ba8\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0ba4\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bae\u0bc1\u0b95\u0ba4\u0bcd \u0ba4\u0bca\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb5\u0baf\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0bb1\u0bc1 \u0b90\u0b99\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb0\u0ba9\u0bc8\u0baa\u0bcd\n\u0baa\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b85\u0bb1\u0baa\u0bcd \u0baa\u0bc1\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bc1\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bc8\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bbe\u0bae\u0bcd","english_translation":"So that we may set forth this 'Unmai Vilakkam', the Light on Truth, without straying from what the bountiful Agamas teach, let us place in our minds, so that bondage may end, the five-handed Lord with the elephant's face, the round belly and the colour of the evening sky, from whom the strong musth flows.","historical_notes":"\u0b95\u0bbe\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bc1 \u00b7 Invocation\n\nTamil text from the Project Madurai etext pm0068 (prepared by Dr K. Loganathan). 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Here Manavasagam Kadandar asks for His grace so that the book does not stray from the Agamas. Shaiva Siddhanta holds the Vedas as the general scripture and the Shiva Agamas as the special scripture. Vinayaka has five hands: four holding the noose, the goad, the tusk and the modakam, and the trunk with which He pours the sacred bath. 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