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}{}{} plenty and prosperity.” Such agreeting we find in the very first poem of Puranânăru after the invocatory one.” HHH Imayam (the Himalayas), the pride of India, has always received the respect of the Tamil people and poets. It is described as a very big,” good,” useful* and ancient” mountain of great fame,” of unassailedo high peaks” that shine like silvero and glitter like gold,” and on whose head is the luminance of light.” Those peaks shoot high above in the sky,” appear like smoke as they are covered by snow” and are like the flame in smoke." The mountain is in the north” as the northern boundary,” so as to make the earth unshaky,” and it does not stir about or become shaky.” It is revered as God” and is the abode of gods,”Tévar” and their ladies, ascetics, Aryars and the Anthanars (Brahmins) who perform their evening prayers in front of fire." In this mountain, there are snakes that crawlo and Yaks that graze a fragrant grass known as Narantham.” There are also the deer” and swans.” Here the bamboo grows,” the streams rollo and roaro and from it the Gañgai flows.” Imayam was considered by the ancient Tamil people as a mountain that will never perish as sages live therein,” and it is praised as the mountain that is protected by all the three great crowned kings of Tamilnad.* Among the many references to the Imayam, there cannot perhaps be a more significant reference than the one that is found in the very invocatory song in Paripätal, which refers to Imayam as God Himself.” The poet, after listing fourteen things” in prayerful praise, namely, the Aram or Dharma that is protected by the Anthanars (Brahmins), mercy to the devotees of God, valour that corrects the wrong, God of enemies, the moon that showers light from the broad sky, the hot sun, the Tirumāl or Vishnu who has his bed on the five-headed serpent, the lion knowledge that it is free from fault and full of goodness, Brahman, the fragrant smell, the clouds, the big sky, the land, in the end says: “You are the big Imayam,” touching the climax of the emotion of the reader. Can there be anything more significant which reveals the sense of reverence that the ancient Tamil poets had about the Imayam? Are not the above mentioned references in Tamil Literature. clear evidences that the people of Tamilnad who were more than