Karaikkal Ammaiyar is one of the greatest figures of early Tamil literature, a Bhakti poet and saint who lived during the 6 th century AD. She was a devotee of Lord Shiva and not Lord Vishnu. Hence, statement (c) is incorrect. The Nalayira Divya Prabandham, four thousand sacred compositions is one of the major anthologies of compositions of the 12 Alvars collected and compiled in the 10th century by Nathamuni. Andal was the only female Alvar and saw herself as the beloved of Vishnu. The inscriptional evidence from suggests that the Chola ruler Parantaka I had consecrated metal images of Appar, Sambandar and Sundarar in a Shiva temple. Hence, statement (a), (b) and (d) are correct.