Native placeSirkazhi (Seergazhi), Chola country
Associated templeBrahmapureeswarar (Sattainathar) Temple, Sirkazhi
Guru PujaVaikasi - Moolam
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The Life
Born to Sivapada Hrudayar at Sirkazhi, the infant Sambandar was left by the temple tank while his father bathed. Crying for his parents, he was consoled by Shiva and Uma, who gave the child a cup of the Goddess's own breast-milk, the milk of divine wisdom (gnana). When his father returned and demanded who had fed him, the three-year-old pointed to the sky and burst into his first hymn, "Thodudaiya Seviyan." Thus began the child-saint's life of singing the Thevaram across the Tamil land, working miracles, confounding the Jains at Madurai, and reviving the dead. At sixteen, on his wedding day at Achalpuram, he prayed and merged, with all the wedding party, into a blaze of divine light at Shiva's feet in the month of Vaikasi.
சுந்தரர் (சுந்தரமூர்த்தி நாயனார்)Sundarar (Sundaramurthi Nayanar)
The comrade of Shiva whose wedding the Lord halted by claiming him as His bond-slave.
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திருநீலகண்ட நாயனார்Thiru Neelakanta Nayanar
The Chidambaram potter bound for life by his wife's vow taken in Shiva's name.
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இயற்பகை நாயனார்Iyarpagai Nayanar
The Puhar merchant who surrendered even his own wife at a devotee's word.
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