Periapuranam

The Periya Puraanam is the song describing the lives of sixty-three Saivite saints of the ancient Tamil land, sung by a poet-saint himself. In the source biography of Bhagavan, Self-Realization, we read: "Towards the end of 1895 (perhaps a few months after hearing about Arunachalam from a relation) he found at home a copy of the Periya Puraanam and was awe struck by the life of these remarkable saints." Throughout his life he never tired of telling the stories, he first read as a boy in Madurai. Pp. 358