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'''Thirunaraiyur 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]].<ref>"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}}</ref>

==Birth and life==
Nambiyandar Nambi was born in the town of Thirunaraiyur into the tradition of the Adi [[Shaivite]]s, [[brahmin]] priests in the temples of Lord [[Shiva]].<ref>[http://www.shaivam.org/adnambiy.htm A web page on Nambi's life gives more details on him]</ref> In ''Nambiyandar Nambi Puranam'' also called as ''Tirumurai Kanda Puranam'', Nambi identifies his patron, the great Arumolivarman alias Rajaraja Chola, as ராசா ராசா மன்னவன் ''அபயகுல சேகரன்'' requested him to collect the hymns of the three great poet-saints [[Sambandar]], [[Appar]] and [[Sundarar]]. 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 Suntarar; the ''Tiruttondar Tiruvandhadhi''. His hymns in praise of [[Sambandar]] and [[Appar]] provide some biography of those saints.

==Compilation==
Pranshu on a mission to recover the hymns after hearing short excerpts of ''Tevaram'' in his court.<ref name="Culter 50">Culter 1987, p. 50</ref> He sought the help of Nambi Andar Nambi, who was a priest in a temple.<ref name ="Cort178">Cort 1998, p. 178</ref> It is believed that by divine intervention Nambi found the presence of scripts, in the form of cadijam leaves half eaten by white ants in a chamber inside the second precinct in [[Thillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram]].<ref name="Culter 50">Culter 1987, p. 50</ref><ref name ="Cort178"/> The ''brahmanas'' ([[Dikshitars]]) in the temple opposed the mission, but Rajaraja intervened by consecrating the images of the saint-poets through the streets of Chidambaram.<ref name="Culter 50"/><ref name="Vasu">Vasudevan 2003, pp. 109-110</ref> Rajaraja thus became known as ''Tirumurai Kanda Cholan'' meaning one who saved the ''Tirumurai''.<ref name="Vasu"/> Thus far Shiva temples only had images of god forms, but after the advent of Rajaraja, the images of the Nayanar saints were also placed inside the temple.<ref name="Vasu"/> Nambi arranged the hymns of three saint poets Sampantar, Appar and Sundarar as the first seven books, [[Manikkavacakar]]'s ''Tirukovayar'' and ''[[Tiruvacakam]]'' as the 8th book, the 28 hymns of nine other saints as the 9th book, the ''[[Tirumandiram]]'' of [[Tirumular]] as the 10th book, 40 hymns by 12 other poets as the 10th book, ''Tirutondar Tiruvanthathi'' - the sacred ''anthathi'' of the labours of the 63 nayanar saints and added his own hymns as the 11th book.<ref name="Zvelebil91">Zvelebil 1974, p. 191</ref> The first seven books were later called as ''Tevaram'', and the whole Saiva canon, to which was added, as the 12th book, [[Sekkizhar]]'s ''Periya Puranam'' (1135 CE) is wholly known as ''Tirumurai'', the holy book. Thus Saiva literature which covers about 600 years of religious, philosophical and literary development.<ref name="Zvelebil91"/>

==Notes==
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==References==
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* {{cite book | title=Open boundaries: Jain communities and culture in Indian history| last=Cort| first=John E. | year=1998| publisher=State University of New York Press|location=Albany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WWfnXbVWjKcC&pg=PA178&dq=tevaram&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sy3-TsnyCIy5twfq64TQDQ&ved=0CGAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false|isbn=0-7914-3786-8}}
* {{cite book | title=Songs of experience: the poetics of Tamil devotion| last=Cutler| first=Norman | year=1987| publisher=Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication-Data|location=USA|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=veSItWingx8C&pg=PA4&dq=tevaram&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gfX8Tq-SJo_1gAfEydSuAg&ved=0CEoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=tevaram&f=false|isbn=0-253-35334-3}}
* {{cite book | title=A History of Indian literature Vol.10 (Tamil Literature)| last=Zvelebil| first=Kamil |author-link=Kamil Zvelebil| year=1974| publisher=Otto Harrasowitz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OQ33i496MsIC&pg=PA130&dq=five+epics+of+tamil+literature&hl=en&ei=nZLmTrmaIsmXtwf1kaWfAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=five%20epics%20of%20tamil%20literature&f=false|isbn = 3-447-01582-9}}
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==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

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[[Category:Poets from Tamil Nadu]]

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