- Nambiyandar Nambi
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Tirumurai The twelve volumes of Tamil Shaivite hymns of the sixty-three Nayanars 1, 2, 3. Tirukadaikkappu Campantar 4, 5, 6. Tevaram Appar 7. Tirupaatu Cuntarar 8. Tiruvacakam and Tirukkovaiyar Manikkavacakar 9. Tiruvisaippa & Tiruppallaandu Various poets 10. Tirumandhiram Tirumular 11. Prabandham Various poets 12. Periya Puranam Sekkizhar Tirunarayur Nambiyandar Nambi was an eleventh-century Shaiva scholar of Tamil Nadu in South India who compiled the hymns of Sampantar, Appar and Sundarar and was himself one of the authors of the eleventh volume of the canon of the Tamil liturgical poetry of Shiva, the Tirumurai.[1]
Nambiyandar was born in the town of Tirunaraiyur into the tradition of the Adi Shaivites, brahmin priests in the temples of Lord Shiva.[2] The great Chola emperor Rajaraja[3] requested him to collect the hymns of the three great poet-saints Campantar, Appar and Cuntarar. Nambi managed to get palm-leaf manuscripts of the hymns, though some had been eaten away by termites. They were able to recover around ten percent of the entire set of hymns. Nambi also wrote a memoir of the lives of the sixty-three great devotees mentioned by Cuntarar; the Tiruttondar Tiruvandhadhi. His hymns in praise of Campantar and Appar provide some biography of those saints.
References
- ^ "A twelve-book collection of hymns and writings of South Indian saints, compiled by saint Nambiyandar Nambi (ca 1000)", Page 840, Dancing with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism, By Master Subramuniya, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, Published 2003 by Himalayan Academy Publications, ISBN 0-945497-96-2
- ^ A web page on Nambi's life gives more details on him
- ^ A web page on Rajaraja Chola talks about his relationship with Nambi
Related Devara temple near nambi's village
1.kattumannarkoil 8 km 2.Kanattumulloor 9 km 3.Omampuliyur 14 km 4.Melakadambur 14 km from here
Categories:- Tamil poets
- Tamil people
- 10th-century people
- Hindu saints
- Nayanar saints
- Indian Shaivites
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