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“Let us sing that the God was hired for bearing earth on His head in buzzling Madurai; that He was smitten by the King there and that His golden body was bearing a wound” -8:8:4-6 “Singing of the Rider of the bull in battle of the fierce Lion of those in Civapuram graciously eating the rice-cakes on the soil in Madurai,of His being wounded when Paandian took work from Him, let us pluck flowers of lily” -13:16 The King realised his fault and begged his saintly minister to forgive him. Both of them were wonder-struck at the Mercy of the Lord though the saint could not bear the sight when the transcendently supreme God was beaten by the King. * Thereafter Maanickavaachagar became God-mad and perhaps wandered from place to place pouring forth melodious songs. worshipping the Lord in different temples and singing His glory and recollecting His extra-ordinary mercy and grace shown to him at Thirupperunthurai. All those poems so sung by the saint Maanickavaachagar form the divine Thiruvaachakam. It is in fact a book of mystic theology. It relates an autobiographical love story of the saint with God at different stages of spiritual life and experiences which enabled mim to attain eternal and supreme Bliss ineffable and transcendent. Most of the poems are in direct speech and God is addressed in the second person. It is made up of 659 stanzas arranged in 51 decads (poems of ten stanzas each in most cases). Each poem has a title, a sub-title perhaps added later by an unknown author and the name of the place where it was sung. Out of these 51 decads or poems 20 decads are said to have been sung at Thirupperumthurai where the saint was consecrated, 25 (the maximum) at Thillai (Chidambaram), 2 at Thiru Annama Hai