Nayanars

Nayanars
The 3 foremost Nayanars with Manikkavacakar - collectively called the Nalvars: (from left) Sambandar, Appar, Sundarar, Manikkavacakar.

The Nayanars or Nayanmars (Tamil: நாயன்மார்கள்) were Shaivite devotional poets of Tamil Nadu, active between the fifth and the tenth centuries CE. The Tamil Śaiva hagiography Periya Puranam, a volume of the Tirumurai, written during the thirteenth century CE, narrates the history of each of sixty-three Nayanars and the history of nine Thokai Adiyar.

Sundarar's eighth century work Tirutoṇṭar tokai lists 60 Shaiva saints[1] but gives none of the legends associated with them. In the tenth century CE Nambiyandar Nambi composed the Tirutoṇṭar Antādi, a sequence of interlocking verses the title of which can be rendered as the Necklace of Verses on the Lord's Servants. In this work Nambi and Sundarar, himself and his parents to the sequence, creating what is now the canonical list of sixty-three saints, each with a brief sketch of their legend.

Nayanars were from varied backgrounds, ranging from kings and soldiers to untouchables. The foremost Nayanars are Appar, Sundarar and Sambandar. Together with the twelve Vaishnava Alvars, the Nayanars are sometimes accounted South India's 75 Apostles of Bhakti because of their importance in the rise of the Hindu Bhakti movement.

They praised 275 of this deity's most holy temple abodes as the Paadal Petra Sthalams of the Shiva Sthalams on the continent.

Contents

The sixty-three Nayanmars

The 63 nayanmars in a Shiva temple
Kannappa Nayanar
  1. Anaya
  2. Adipaththar
  3. Aiyadigal Kaadavarkon, Pallava King Aiyadigal Perumaanaar
  4. Amaraneedi Nayanar
  5. Appudhi Adigal
  6. Arivattaya
  7. Chandeshvara Nayanar
  8. DhandiyadigaL
  9. Enatinatha
  10. Eripaththa
  11. Eyarkon Kalikkaama
  12. Gananatha
  13. Idankazhi
  14. Ilayankudi maranar
  15. Isaignaniyaar - a woman
  16. Iyarpagaiar
  17. Kaari
  18. Kalikkamba
  19. Kaliya
  20. Kanampulla
  21. Kannappa Nayanar
  22. Karaikkal Ammaiyar a woman
  23. Kazharchinga
  24. Kazharir-rarivaar, Chera King, also Cheraman Perumal
  25. Kochengat Cholan, A Chola King
  26. Kootruva
  27. Kotpuli
  28. Kulachchirai
  29. Kungiliyak Kalaya
  30. Manakkanychaara Nayanar
  31. Mangayarkkarasiyar, a woman
  32. Meiporul Nayanar
  33. Murkha
  34. Murti
  35. Munayaduvaar
  36. Muruga
  37. Nami Nandi Adigal
  38. Narasingha Munayaraya
  39. Nesa Nayanar
  40. Ninra Seer Nedumaara
  41. Perumizhalaik Kurumba
  42. Pusalar
  43. Pugal Chola, A Chola King
  44. Pugazh Thunai Nayanar
  45. Saakkiya
  46. Sadaiya Nayanar
  47. Saththi
  48. Seruthtunai
  49. Sirappuli
  50. Siruttonda
  51. Somaachi
  52. Sundarar
  53. Sambandar (Tirugnaana Sambandar)
  54. Tirukkuripput Tonda
  55. Tirumular
  56. Thirunalai Povar Nayanar, popularly known as Nandanar
  57. Tirunavukkarasar, popularly known as Appar
  58. Thiruneelakandar
  59. Tirunilakanda Yaazpaana
  60. Tirunilanakka
  61. Uruttira Pasupati
  62. Vaayilaar
  63. Viralminda nayanar

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Dr R. Nagasamy. Siva Bhakthi. Chapter 2.

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