Tiruvisaippa

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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Thiruvisaipa (Tamil: திருவிசைப்பா Thiru means "respect", visai means "action" and pa indicates "poem") denotes the ninth volumes[1] of the Tirumurai, the twelve-volume collection of Tamil Saivite devotional poetry.

Contents

The poems

The ninth volume of Tirumurai is composed by Tamil poets (known as Nayanars) - Thirumaligai Thevar, Senthanar, Karuvur Thevar, Ponnthuruthi Nambi Kata nambi, Kandarathithar, Venandadigal, Thiruvaliyamuthanar, Purshottama Nambi, Sethiyar and Senthanar [2] Among the eight, Kandarathithar, was a prince descended from Chola king, Parantaka I.[3]

In the tenth Century AD, during the reign of Rajaraja Chola I, a collection of these songs was found abandoned in the Chidambaram temple, along with other religious literary works, and collated by Nambiyandar Nambi.

List of Temple associated with Tiruvisaippa

The following are the temples reverred by the hymns of Thiruvisaippa and are in turn referred as Tiruvisaipa Thalangal.

The shrine of Gangaikonda Cholapuram are reverred as under
" He of the Shrine of Gangaikonda Choleswaram takes whatever forms that his worship visualize" - 131,5.[4]

References

  1. ^ Primer of Hinduism .J. N. Farquhar
  2. ^ http://www.projectmadurai.org/pm_etexts/pdf/pm0092.pdf.
  3. ^ Mukherjee 1999, p. 396
  4. ^ Coward 1987, p. 151

Notes

  • Mukherjee, Sujit (1998). A Dictionary of Indian Literature: Beginnings-1850. New Delhi: Orient Longman Limited. pp. 396. ISBN 8125014535. 
  • Coward, Harold G (1987). Modern Indian responses to religious pluralism. New York: State University of New York. pp. 151. ISBN 0887065716.