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36 unusual facts about Śaiva


Ācārakkōvai

Acharakkovai literally translates to "the garland of right conduct" of a Saiva author, Kayatturp Peruvayil Mulliyar.

Ancient Tamil music

Music was an integral part of the compositions of the Tamil Saiva saints such as Appar, Siva Prakasar, Thirugnana Sambanthar and Manikkavasagar during the Hindu revival period between the 6th and the 10th century.

Ati Konanayakar

This includes the association of Hindus from various parts of Trincomalee district its festival organization to the assimilation of all local non-Saiva cults within the temple premises.

Avinashi

This place is famous for the Shiva temple constructed by Sundarapandiya is closely associated with the great Saiva saint Sundaramoorthy Nayanar.

Bible translations into Tamil

Seventy years after Fabricius, at the invitation of Peter Percival a Saiva scholar, Arumuka Navalar, produced a "tentative" translation, which came to be known as the "Navalar version," and was largely rejected by Tamil Protestants.

Bodhinatha Veylanswami

He is known for his initiative of digitizing the Saiva Agamas, mystical scriptures of the Hindu Saivite religion and the basis for Hindu temple liturgy, making them freely available in digital format and encouraging their study.

C. Ganesha Iyer

Ganesha Iyer had his primary education (up to 8th standard) in a Saiva school in the courtyard of Siththi Vinayagar Temple and was a Teacher at the same school later on.

Chola literature

The religious canons of Saiva and Vaishnava sects were beginning to be systematically collected and categorised.

Dharmasasta

Dharmasasta is worshiped by people belonging to both Saiva and Vaishnava denominations.

Dindigul Fort

Appar, the Saiva poet visited the city and noted it in his works in Tevaram.

Hindu denominations

However, medieval philosophers like Vidyāraṇya classified Indian philosophy into sixteen schools, where schools belonging to Saiva, Pāṇini and Raseśvara thought are included with others, and the three Vedantic schools Advaita, Vishishtadvaita and Dvaita (which had emerged as distinct schools by then) are classified separately.

Hindu philosophy

However, medieval philosophers like Vidyāraṇya classify Indian philosophy into sixteen schools, where schools belonging to Saiva, Pāṇini and Raseśvara thought are included with others, and the three Vedantic schools Advaita, Vishishtadvaita and Dvaita (which had emerged as distinct schools by then) are classified separately.

Indian philosophy

However, Vidyāraṇya classifies Indian philosophy into sixteen schools where he includes schools belonging to Saiva and Raseśvara thought with others.

Karampon Shanmuganathan Maha Vidyalayam

The school was established by Sri Mahadeva Swamigal for Saiva children in Karampon.

Kocengannan

The legend of a spider turning into the Chola monarch is the version found in the later texts as well as in the Periyapuranam, the great compendium of the Saiva saints.

Kumara Swamy Desikar

Kumara Swamy Desikar (born Kumara Swamy, 1711-1810), was a Saiva spiritual writer.

Kumaraswamy Pulavar

He also wrote and published several articles on greatness of Saiva religion to counter the insulting articles published by Christian clergy at that time in Jaffna and Tamil Nadu.

Nandi Thimmana

He was a Saiva and was a disciple of Guru Aghora Siva, yet some of his works are based on Vaishanavism because of imperial patronage.

Nondualism

Medieval Indian philosophers like Vidyāraṇya classify Indian philosophy into sixteen schools, where schools belonging to Saiva, Pāṇini and Raseśvara thought are included with others, and the three Vedantic schools Advaita, Vishishtadvaita and Dvaita (which had emerged as distinct schools by then) are classified separately.

Pala Empire

Although the Palas were Buddhists, they had also given support to Saiva ascetics, typically the ones associated with the Golagi-Math.

Panchavarnaswamy Temple

The 7th century Saiva canonical work Tevaram by Tirugnanasambandar mentions the place as "Tirumukkiswaram".

S.V.S. Rathinam

His fore father Kumara Swamy Desikar was born in a town called Kanchipuram (Kanchipuram) Thondai mandalam in Tamil Nadu, South India into an orthodox Saiva Tamil (Desikar) family around the 17th Century.

Sadyojata

According to Śaiva Agama, Lord Shiva performs five actions - creation, preservation, dissolution, concealing grace, and revealing grace.

Sambandar

Sambandar (also called Thirugyana Sambandar, Tirugnana Sambanthar, Campantar, Champantar, Jnanasambandar, Gnanasambandar) was a young Saiva poet-saint of Tamil Nadu who lived around the 7th century CE.

He is one of the most prominent of the sixty-three Nayanars, Tamil Saiva bhakti saints who lived between the sixth and the tenth centuries CE.

Sasthamcotta Sree Dharma Sastha Temple

The concept of Dharma Sastha represents the unison of Vaishnava and Saiva beliefs.

Sattainathar Temple, Sirkazhi

Tirugnana Campantar (also rendered as Sambandar, Champantar, Sambandar, Jnanasambandar,Gnanasambandar) was a young Saiva poet-saint of Tamil Nadu who lived around the 7th century CE.

Siva Prakasar

Sivaprakasar was born in a town called Kanchipuram (Kanchipuram) Thondai mandalam in Tamil Nadu, South India into an orthodox Saiva Tamil (Desikar) family around the middle of (17 th Century) / Sivaprakasar's father was a respected Spiritual leader.

Sri Kandaswamy Kovil, Brickfields

The railway staff residing in the Brickfields area, many of whom were students of Saiva Siddhanta Asiriar Sivapadasundaranar, an acknowledged follower of Sri Arumuga Navalar, felt an urgent need for a place of worship in accordance with the Saiva Agamas.

Swaminatha Desikar

Swaminatha Desikar was born in a village called Valavanur (Valavanur) near by Mailam in Tamil Nadu, South India into an orthodox Saiva Tamil (Desikar) family around the middle of (19 th Centuary)/ Swaminatha Desikar's father was a respected Spiritual leader.

Tiruvalithayam

It is one of the Paadal Petra Sthalams, 275 temples that are revered by the verses of Saiva Nayanars in the 6th-9th century CE and are amongst the greatest Shiva temples of the continent.

Vaddukoddai

The move by the seminary to study Saiva scriptures led to an important social transformation amongst the local Tamils because it began a process that led to a Saiva revivalism led by Arumuka Navalar.

Vannarpannai

It is home to many cultural insituitions that are important for the Saiva revivalism of the local Sri Lankan Tamils as initiated by Arumuga Navalar.

Vedaranyam

The 7th century Saiva canonical work Tevaram by Appar and Tirugnanasambandar mentions the place as "Tirumaraikadu".

Vellalar of Sri Lanka

In this they are similar to Saiva Vellalars of India who also consider themselves the custodians of Saiva Adheenams and Saivite culture.

Village deities of Tamils of Sri Lanka

Further the Saiva revivalism initiated by Arumuga Navalar has enabled many high status Tamils to subsume the village deities within the Agamic pantheon.


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Suremphaa

Rajeswar Singha also promoted cause of the Saiva cult by constructing the Manikarnesvaar Temple (1755), making financial provision for the Sukreswar Temple (1759), and by constructing the Siddhesvara Temple at Sualkuchi (1764).

Tamil Buddhism

Tamil inscriptions excavated from this site point to the attention the Cholas paid to the development of Trincomalee District as a strong Saiva Tamil principality and for their contributions to the upkeep of several shrines including the monumental Shiva Koneswaram temple of Trincomalee.