[4] According to Sri Vaishnava legend, Poigai Alvar once travelled to offer his veneration to Vishnu at the Ulagalantha Perumal temple at Tirukoilur.

The trio decided that it would be most proper for an individual to lie down, two people to be seated, but the fact that there were three of them meant that it would be most suitable for all of them to stand.

The first hymn of the Mutal Tiruvantati elucidates his state of mind when Perumal overwhelmed him with his presence:[7][8]With the earth as the lamp,the sweeping oceans as melted butter,and the sun with the fiery raysas the flame;I have woven a garland of wordsfor the feet of the Lord,who bears the red flaming wheel,so I can cross the ocean of grief.Poigai Alvar also references the Vamana and the Varaha incarnations of Vishnu in this work:[9] O Lord of discus!

Taking a huge form you stretched your lotus feet and measured the Earth, even as the world feared and the celestials trembled.

When you came as a huge boar and lifted the Earth on your tusk teeth, how did it not fall off, resting as it was on one tooth alone?Sri Poigai Alvar's Mutal Tiruvantati (Text and commentary) - N Rajagopalan