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They said that their temple rules demand that this can only happen if the Tevaram trio come to the temple. The temple priests of Chidambaram refused to let Nampi and king to take the manuscript from the temple. Tradition attributes this discovery to Shiva's intervention. Nambi found the scripts in the form of cadijam leaves half eaten by white ants in a chamber inside the second precinct in Thillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram. Nambi, states the tradition, prayed before Ganesha for success in finding the manuscripts.
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He sought the help of Nambiyandar Nambi, who was a priest in a Ganesha temple. He then embarked on a mission to recover the hymns. Sometime around 1000 CE, Raja Raja Chola I (985-1013 CE) heard short excerpts of Shiva hymns in his court. Like the Tevaram trio, Sundarar's hymns were passed on through the oral tradition for a few centuries. The twelve volumes of Tamil Śaiva hymns of the sixty-three Nayanars Sundarar began his first poem (Tevaram VII.1.1) by addressing Shiva as Pittaa pirai chudi. Sundarar views this as a command to cancel the wedding and serve Shiva in the Tiruvarur temple. A court of elders then reviews the document and finds it authentic, demands Sundarar to serve the petitioner, who then mysteriously vanishes in the Shiva shrine. The document stated that Sundarar was bonded to serve him, the old man, his master. However, as the wedding party approached the local Shiva temple, states the traditional legend, an old man mysteriously appears and produces a palm leaf document. Once he came of age, his adopted family arranged his marriage. They were temple priests and accepted the adoption request of the local feudatory. Sundarar is unique among the Nayanars in that both of his birth parents are also recognized as Nayanars (poet-saints of Tamil Shaivism).
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He was adopted by the Narasinga Munaiaraiyar Kashatriya family, a Pallava feudatory (Thirumunaipadi-Nadu, an adoption that gave him a luxurious childhood. Sundarar was born in Tirunavalur in a Shaiva Brahmin family to Sadaiya Nayanar and Isaignaniyar towards the end of the 7th century. The Tevaram hymns compositions of Sundarar are a source of biographical information about him, as are the hagiographic texts written about him few centuries after he died. įamily of Sundarar (l->r): Sadaya Nayanar (father), Isaignaniyar (mother), Paravai Nachiyar (wife), Sundarar, Sangili Nachiyar (wife), Narasinga Muniyaraiyar (foster-father). Finally, his reflections on wealth and material goods. Third, his blindness and then return of his sight. Second, his double marriage to temple dancers Paravai and Cankali with their stay together in Tiruvarur. First, his cancelled arranged marriage through the intervention of Shiva in the form of a mad petitioner and his conversion into a Shaiva bhakt. His life and his hymns in the Tevaram are broadly grouped in four stages. His songs are considered the most musical in Tirumurai in Tamil language. His hymns form the seventh volume of the Tirumurai, the twelve-volume compendium of Shaiva Siddhanta. He is among the Tevaram trio, and one of the most prominent Nayanars, the Shaiva bhakti (devotional) poets of Tamil Nadu. Sundarar ( Tamil: சுந்தரர்), also referred to as Chuntarar, Chuntaramurtti, Nampi Aruran or Tampiran Tolan, was an eighth-century poet-saint of Tamil Shaiva Siddhanta tradition of Hinduism.