The Tiruppalliyeḷucci — Sacred Waking — is the suprabhatam of Tamil Vaiṣṇavism: the dawn hymn that calls the Lord of Śrīraṅgam to rise from his sleep on the serpent Ādiśeṣa. Composed by Toṇṭaraṭippoṭiyāḻvār, it has been sung at the Śrīraṅgam temple at the moment of the first morning service for over a thousand years.

The poem is saturated with the sensory world of dawn at the temple: jasmine opening, cuckoos calling from the tower, bee-swarms humming in the gopura's stone ridges, women arriving with flower garlands, lamps guttering as the sun rises, devotees stumbling forward in their urgency to worship. The night yields to the morning. The Lord must wake with the world.

Each pāsuram frames its call to the Lord differently — now appealing to his cosmic identity as the Lord of the Milk Ocean, now to his tender cowherd past as the flute-playing Kṛṣṇa, now to the cuckoo's own wordless cry from the temple tower. Together they build a complete portrait of a dawn — and a complete theology of why the Lord lies down: so his devotees may have the joy of waking him.