Nambiyandar Nambi

Tirumurai
The twelve volumes of Tamil Shaivite hymns of the sixty-three Nayanars
Parts Name Author
1,2,3 Tirukadaikkappu Campantar
4,5,6 Tevaram Appar
7 Tirupaatu Cuntarar
8 Tiruvacakam &
Tirukkovaiyar		 Manikkavacakar
9 Tiruvisaippa &
Tiruppallaandu		 Various
10 Tirumandhiram Tirumular
11 Various
12 Periya Puranam Sekkizhar
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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

  1. ^ "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
  2. ^ A web page on Nambi's life gives more details on him
  3. ^ 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