[3] According to Sri Vaishnava tradition, the composition of these hymns is regarded to have impressed Ramanuja so much that he conferred the epithet Tiruvarangatu Amudhanar upon the author.
[4] The saint Manavala Mamuni is regarded to have added it to the compendium of the Alvars's hymns, the Nalayira Divya Prabandham.
According to tradition, Periya Koil Nambi was initially an opponent of Ramanuja, whose activities as the chief priest of the Srirangam temple are said to have interfered with the latter's work.
The deity Ranganatha himself is said to have appeared in a dream of Nambi, pleading the case of Ramanuja.
With this, the animosity between the two men came to an end, and Nambi handed over the keys to the temple to Ramanuja.