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UGC NET December 2013 History
Who among the following was an Alvar saint?
AAppar
BKulasekhara ✓ Correct
CSambandar
DVenkatanatha
Correct answer: (B) Kulasekhara — Kulasekhara was an Alvar saint, so the answer is Kulasekhara.
Explanation
★Kulasekhara was an Alvar saint, so the answer is Kulasekhara.
★The Alvars were the Vaishnava devotional poets of the Tamil land.
★Kulasekhara was a devotee from Kerala and a poet of Vishnu.
★He wrote the Perumal Tirumoli in Tamil and the Mukundamala in Sanskrit.
★Appar and Sambandar, by contrast, were Shaivite Nayanar saints.
★Venkatanatha too belonged to the Shaivite tradition.
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