Srimanuarayantyam of Melpathur Narayana Bhattatiri

by by S. N. Sastri

Srimannarayaniyam is a devotional work of a littleover one thousand verses by the famous devotee poet Sri Melpathur Narayana Bhattatiri who lived in Kerala in the 16th century A.D. This work is acclaimed by scholars as a stotrakavya a superb outpouring of devotion as well as a literary work of a very high order. It is a masterly condensation of Srimad Bhagavata considered to be the greatest of all the Puranas. In addition to being a devotional work Srimannarayaniyam contains the gist of all the Upanishads and is therefore a work of great significance from the Vedantic point of view also.