- the
hagiographic Puranas in Tamil, Sekkilar's
Tiruttondar Puranam or
Periyapuranam,
composed during the rule of
Kulottunga II (1133–1150 CE)
stands first...
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devotees of Shiva.
Sekkilhar himself was
later canonised and his work, the
Periyapuranam became the
twelfth and
final book of the
sacred Saiva canon. Sekkilhar...
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legend of the
Cheraman Perumal is
recounted in the
hagiographic work "
Periyapuranam",
composed in the mid-12th
century AD by Chekkizhar, a
courtier of Chola...
- the
birthplace of Sekkizhar, a well-known poet-saint who aut****d the
Periyapuranam. Gerugampakkam,
Irandam Kattalai, Kolapakkam, Kolachery, Kovur, Pazhanthandalam...
- of sixty-two Nayanmars. This was
later elaborated by
Sekkilar in his
Periyapuranam (4,272 verses) . Manikkavasagar, who
lived around the 8th
century CE...
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temple in
their poetic work, Tevaram. Sekkizhar, the
author of the
Periyapuranam wrote that both
Appar and
Sambandar worshiped Arunachalesvara in the...
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overthrew the Kalabhras.
Acchchutakalaba is
likely the last
Kalabhra king.
Periyapuranam, a
Shaivite religious work of the 12th
century tells us of the Pandya...
- distinction. Her
devotion to Lord
Shiva is
recounted in the
hagiographic poem
Periyapuranam compiled by
Sekkizhar as well as in the
Tiruthondar Thogai written by...
-
realisation that it
really existed.
During this time he also read Sekkizhar's
Periyapuranam, a book that
describes the
lives of the 63 Nayanmars,
which "made a...
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trained ritualists. They are
mentioned in the 12th
century work, the
Periyapuranam of Sekkizhar. They were
originally the
ritual arbiters of
imperial legitimacy...
