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The Nayanars or Nayanmars (Tamil: நாயன்மார்கள்) were devotional saint poets of Shiva in Tamil Nadu, active between the fifth and the tenth centuries CE. The Tamil Śhaiva (related to Shiva) hagiography Periya Puranam (a volume of the Tirumurai written during the 13th century CE) narrates the history of each of sixty-three Nayanars and the history of nine Thokai Adiyars.
Sundarar's eighth-century work Thiruthoṇdar thogai lists 60 Shaiva saints[1] but gives none of the legends associated with them. In the 10th century CE Nambiyandar Nambi composed the Tirutoṇṭar Antādi, a sequence of inter-locking verses whose title can be rendered as the Necklace of Verses on the Lord's Servants. In this work Nambi adds Sundarar himself and his parents to the sequence, creating what is now the canonical list of sixty-three saints, each with a brief sketch of his legend.
Nayanars were from varied backgrounds, ranging from kings and soldiers to Dalits. The foremost Nayanars are Appar, Sundarar and Sambandar. Together with the twelve Vaishnava Alvars, the Nayanars are sometimes accounted South India's 75 Apostles of Bhakti because of their importance in the rise of the Hindu Bhakti movement.
They praised 275 of this deity's most holy temple abodes as the Paadal Petra Sthalams of the Shiva Sthalams on the continent.
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Sakya Bayanar was a former Buddhist and Kutruva Nayanar was a former Jain.
Yoga, Medicine, Siddha, India, Tamil Nadu
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