![]() ![]() This is a significant feature that distinguishes Tirumular from the other Saiva saints. He does not seem to hae sung poems in praise of gods and goddesses of local temples as done by the Nayanmars and the Alvars. Calling the different sections of a work as tantiram is not to be found in any other classical Tamil work except in the Tirumandiram….” “According to Tirumular the best form of worship is not flower worship, but it is non- killing even an atom of life and the best place of worship is the heart where the soul resides (verse 197). It conssts of nine sections called tantirams of different length with varying subject matter. The Tirumandiram is a work with a little more than three thousand stanzas written in the kali-viruttam metre. The Tirumandiram is the only Tirumurai, which is both a cattiram and a tottiram in Tamil Saiva tradition. The philosophical literature of Tamil Saivism is called cattirams (sastras – philosophical treatises). Cekkilar – Periya-puranam – constituting the 12 th Tirumurai.Īll the above Tirumurais are called tottirams (stotras – devotional literature), which constitute the bhakt literature of Tamil Saivism. Twelve Saiva Saints – A collection of works – constituting the 11 th Tirumurai.Ĩ. Tirumular – Tirumandiram – constituting the 10 th Tirumurai.ħ. Nine Saiva Saints – Tiru-v-icai=p-pa and Tiru-p-pallandu (a collection of poems) – constituting the 9 th Tirumurai.Ħ. Manikka-vacagar – Tiru-vacagam – constituting the 8 th Tirumurai.ĥ. Cundara-murti – Tevaram – constituting the 7 th TirumuraiĤ. Tiru-navukkaracar – Tevaram – constitutinig the 4rth, 5 th and 6 th Tirumurais.ģ. Tiru-jnana-cambandar – Tevaram – constituting the first three TirumuraisĢ. According to the Saiva Tradition of Tamil Nadu, there are twelve Tirumurais,i.e., sacred Tamil Saiva scriptures. “The Tirumandiram is known as the refined Tamil Agama (centamil Agamam). (excerpt from The Yoga of Tirumular: Essays on the Tirumandiram, ![]()
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