Dark as the blue seas, Kannan,
the black diamond of the heavenly hosts,
He is my dear life,
the Light that sleeps on the many-hooded serpent—
to destroy the army of the Hundred who came to kill,
once upon a time he sided with the Five,
and in that terrible war that day
he drove a chariot—
when will these eyes glimpse
the sounding anklets on his feet, Oh when?

-Nammalvar (Tiruvaymoli)