I  read an interesting and  absorbing review about the  upcoming book by  Sharanya Manivannan on  the Tami poet-saint Andal (8th century AE)  , the only woman  among the celebrated twelve alvars. in scroll.in .

It is written in the form of a novel  entitled ‘The Queen of the Jasmine city’.   Sharanya visualises how, being a woman and yet, who could have  had the luxury  of dreaming of erotic love,  belonging as she did to a patriarchal era,  lived  Her loneliness could have been overwhelming.  It promises to be an innovative  and highly imaginative fiction.

I plan to read this book. And here is the rub. I do not know whether the reviewer Urvashi Baghuguna got it wrong .

It is not Peryalvar, the saint and bachelor, who adopted Andal as his daughter, who  narrates the laments of Devaki, the birth-mother of Krishna , as having missed his childhood pranks, as he grew up with his foster mother Yasodha ,but it is Kulasekara alvar, the Chera king to whom these poems are attributed by the vishnava tradition.