'sacred verses') is a work of Tamil Hindu literature composed by Nammalvar, a poet-saint of the Sri Vaishnava tradition.

[2]The Tiruviruttam is framed as a love story that unfolds between an anonymous heroine (talaivi) and her beloved hero (talaivan), while friends, fortune tellers, bees, birds, and the poet’s own heart play important supporting roles, acting as messengers, lamenters, and audiences in the style of a story.

In this regard, the poet Nammalvar's yearning for God expresses itself through a woman's love-tossed heart pining for her omnipotent lover.

[5] The Indologist David Shulman states that the hymns of the Tiruviruttam, "create a poetic or aesthetic world suffused by classical grammar".

The first few hymns of this poem serve as an example of this format:[7] False wisdom, wicked conduct, dirty bodieslet us not draw near such things nowTo protect lifeyou took birth from many wombsO master of the unblinking onesstand before me embodiedlisten graciously to a servant’s pleaOne of the responses of the heroine's friends is written thus:[8] They haven't flowered yet,the fat konrai trees,nor hung out their garlandsand golden circletsin their sensual canopy of leavesalong the branches, dear girl,dear as the paradise of our lord who measured the earthgirdled by the restless sea,