தோடுடைய செவியன் – Thodudaiya Seviyan – Thevaram – Lord Shiva Devotional Songs:
The Tevaram (Tamil: தேவாரம் Teva means “God”, aram means “garland”) denotes the primary seven volumes of the Tirumurai, the twelve-volume assortment of Tamil Saivite devotional poetry. All seven volumes are devoted to the works of the three most outstanding Tamil poets of seventh century particularly Nayanars – Campantar, Appar and Cuntarar. The singing of Thevaram is sustained as a hereditary practise in a number of the Shiva temples in Tamil Nadu. Within the tenth Century AD, through the reign of Rajaraja Chola I, a set of those songs was discovered deserted within the Chidambaram temple, together with different non secular literary works, and collated by Nambiyandar Nambi. It’s through the Chola interval that Tamil Saivism got here of age and Tevaram with its physique of texts on rituals, philosophy and theology, was canonized. The 276 temples revered by these verses are known as paadal petra sthalam and one other 276 locations having Shiva temples which might be casually talked about within the verses are categorized as vaipu sthalam. The standard Sanksrit devotional texts have been displaced in utilization byTevaram for Saivism and Nalayira Divya Prabandam for Vaishanvism. The custom of singingTevaram verses in temples by educated folks known as odhuvars is sustained in a number of the well-known Shiva temples in Tamil Nadu is adopted even within the present age. There are completely 796 of those songs with a complete of greater than 8,200 stanzas. The three poets weren’t solely concerned in portraying their private devotion to Shiva, but in addition concerned a group of believers via their songs. It is likely one of the essential sources of Tamil Bhakthi, a motion that impressed the agricultural group.
That is rendered by Dharmapuram Sri. P.Swaminathan
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