Text layers in the Gita

[Lakshmi Srinivas]

--- Swaminathan Madhuresan <smadhuresan at YAHOO.COM>
wrote:

> Interestingly, there is no direct (or urging Arjuna
> to fight)
> mention of Gita in Alvars' bhakti poetry. Are there
> any?

I don't think so either. As far as I know, the
reference to Krishna as charioteer (to Arjuna) itself
is very rare in the AzvAr poetry. It occurs once in a
verse by tirumGkai (periyatirumozi 2.3.1) as "pArttan
tEr mun ninRAnai" etc..

Thanks and Warm Regards,

LS

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