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Tirumurai (Tamil: திருமுறை,
meaning Holy Order) is a twelve-volume
compendium of
songs or
hymns in
praise of
Shiva in the
Tamil language from the 6th...
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Nambiyandar Nambi during his
compilation of
material by the
poets for the
Tirumurai collection, and
would include Sundarar himself and Sundarar's parents...
-
eleventh volume of the
canon of the
Tamil liturgical poetry of Shiva, the
Tirumurai.
Nambiyandar Nambi was born in the town of
Thirunaraiyur into the tradition...
- Upanishads, the
Tirumurai describes the
wearing of
rudraksha garlands and
their use as
prayer beads for
chanting mantras. Accordingly, the
Tirumurai identifies...
- 313 have
survived and are now
canonized as the 4th to 6th
volumes of
Tirumurai. One of the most
prominent of the sixty-three
revered Nayanars, he was...
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compositions of the poet-saint are
preserved in the
first three volumes of the
Tirumurai, and
provide a part of the
philosophical foundation of
Shaiva Siddhanta...
- Thevaram,
denotes the
first seven volumes of the twelve-volume
collection Tirumurai, a
Shaiva narrative of epic and
Puranic heroes, as well as a hagiographic...
- from the 5th to the 9th
century CE,
known in
their collected form as
Tirumurai.
Tirumular is
considered to be the
propounder of the term
Siddhanta and...
- of the key text of the
Tamil Shaiva Siddhanta compilation called the
Tirumurai. The
dates of Tirumular's life are controversial, and
because his work...
- It
contains 51
compositions and
constitutes the
eighth volume of the
Tirumurai, the
sacred anthology of the
Tamil Shaiva Siddhanta.
Legend has it that...
