Vaikuntha Gadyam

[1] According to Sri Vaishnava tradition, Ramanuja and his disciples visited the Ranganatha temple in Srirangam on Panguni Uttiram, a day in spring of the Tamil calendar month of Panguni (phalguna) on the day of the ascension of the star called Uttiram.

According to tradition, Uttiram was in ascent when the goddess of the temple, Ranganayaki, a form of Lakshmi, was born.

According to tradition, the deity Ranganatha is regarded to have been moved by these compositions, and gave Ramanuja a vision of his abode, Vaikuntha.

Instead, it is a pure expression of bhakti and gives a detailed description of Vaikuntha seen through the eyes of a liberated one (jivanmukti).

[3] The work comprises alternate long and short sentences with many adjectival phrases.