Question

Note to moderator: enunciate the very last word of this tossup very carefully. A self-proclaimed (*) "great" book in this genre, sung in the Thousand Pillared Hall after being written to draw the king away from his favorite erotic epic, forms the twelfth and final volume of a "Holy Order" of hymns. A similarly-named genre of stories of pilgrimage sites mirror the "travel guide" sections of "glorification" inserted in these texts. Allegedly, this genre is distinguished by accounts of the solar and lunar dynasties that follow descriptions of creation, re-creation, sacred genealogies, and cosmic cycles as this genre’s "five signs.” Scholars often bemoan the unliterary style of texts in this genre despite their name proclaiming their ■END■

ANSWER: Puranas [accept sthala puranas; accept Periya puranam or Tiruttontarpuranam; prompt on hagiography by asking "What genre is in the name of that text?"] (The first sentence refers to the Periya puranam, which closes the Tirumurai; the second sentence refers to sthala puranas and mahatmyas.)
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Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%0%67%147.33
2024 ARGOS Online03/22/2025N367%0%33%134.50
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis03/22/2025N2100%0%0%141.00
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y540%0%20%153.00
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y5100%0%0%131.00
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y333%0%0%127.00
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024Y367%0%0%145.00

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ishan JoshiRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlersas rational as the square root of two power bottoms102-5
Taylor HarveyCry of the Common LoonWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?119-5
Michal GerasimiukStanford+number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku120-5
Andrew WangBHSU ReFantazioThat Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days12210
Tejas RajeBHSU RebirthClown Senpais12410
Ned TagtmeierThe Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)Northeast by Northwestern12710
Yashwanth BajjiClown SquadWashU12710
Hazel Depreist-SullivanNJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)Walston et. al.12710
Swapnil GargBerkeleyA is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs13310
Ali IzzatdustSimple VibesLimp Franceskit13610
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha15110
Daoud JacksonDefying SuavityCambridge15410
Vittal Bhatnumber of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haikuStanford+15410
Sinecio Moraleshawk two ofMusic to Help You Stop Smoking15510
Antoni KluzowskiGrzegorz BrzęczyszczykiewiczCien Años de Quizboledad1550
Omer KeskinCien Años de QuizboledadGrzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz1550
Eshan Pantjust one more half-dot bro12 Litres of Green Tea1550
Zaid Asif12 Litres of Green Teajust one more half-dot bro1550
Vinayak Singh BhadoriyaCope is the thing with feathersjeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club1550
Isaac Kirk-Davidoffjeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan clubCope is the thing with feathers1550
Gareth ThorlaksonSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere1550
Maude-Sophie Lockmanas rational as the square root of two power bottomsRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers1550
Liam KusalikYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange1550
Jananan ArulseelanThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit1550
Micah ColmanTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up 15510
Jason GolfinosWhere are the ACF Nationals recordings?Cry of the Common Loon15510