IYARPAGAI NAYANAR Iyarpagai is the sobriquet of the Nayanar because he did things contrary to nature. Let us see the life of Iyarpagai Nayanar as described in the Periyapuram and as depicted in the panel of Airavatheswara temple. Iyarpagai was born in a wealthy merchant family in the famous city of Pumpuhar and was the […]
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‘MATHARPIRAIKANNIYANAI…’ Saint Sekkizhar in about fifteen quatrains hymned Saint Appar’s surfacing at the Thiruvaiyaru pond; beholding God and Goddess; the grand scene of Mount Kailash and Saint’s state of ecstasy. In that the grand and magnificent milieu of Mount Kailash is described in six quatrains. The silver lined Mount Kailash filled with the divine atmosphere, […]