Sambandar
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Sambandar, also referred to as Tirujnana Sambandar or Gnana Sambanthar, was a Shaiva poet-saint of Tamil Nadu who lived sometime in the 7th century CE. According to the Tamil Shaiva tradition, he comp
A copper alloy sculpture of Sambandar with forefinger pointing slightly up (symbolically towards Parvati and Shiva)
Amirthakadaieeshwarar temple relief depicting Appar bearing Sambandar's palanquin
The Child Saint Sambandar, chola bronze, 12th century India, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Sambandar (Wooden Image), ASI Museum, Vellore
Nayanars
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The Nayanars were a group of 63 Tamil saints living during the 6th to 8th centuries CE. Along with the Alvars, their contemporaries, they influenced the Bhakti movement in early medieval South India.
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…volumes of the Tirumurai and provide a part of the philosophical foundation of Shaiva Siddhanta. He is one of the most prominent of the sixty-three Nayanars, Tamil Shaiva bhakti saints who lived between the sixth and the tenth centuries CE. He was a contemporary of Appar, another Shaiva poet-saint. Information…
The Nalvar (lit. 'The Four') of Shaiva Siddhanta – (from left) Sambandar, Appar and Sundarar, the three foremost Nayanars, and Manikkavacakar.
The 63 Nayanars in a Shiva temple
Kannappa Nayanar
India statue of nataraja