- the
hagiographic Puranas in Tamil, Sekkilar's
Tiruttondar Puranam or
Periyapuranam,
composed during the rule of
Kulottunga II (1133–1150 CE)
stands first...
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devotees of Shiva.
Sekkilhar himself was
later canonised and his work, the
Periyapuranam became the
twelfth and
final book of the
sacred Saiva canon. Sekkilhar...
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trained ritualists. They are
mentioned in the 12th
century work, the
Periyapuranam of Sekkizhar. They were
originally the
ritual arbiters of
imperial legitimacy...
- The
legend of the
Cheraman Perumal is
narrated in the
hagiographic Periyapuranam,
composed by Chekkizhar, a
courtier of
Chola Kulottunga II, in mid-12th...
- the
birthplace of Sekkizhar, a well-known poet-saint who aut****d the
Periyapuranam. Gerugampakkam,
Irandam Kattalai, Kolapakkam, Kolachery, Kovur, Pazhanthandalam...
- distinction. Her
devotion to Lord
Shiva is
recounted in the
hagiographic poem
Periyapuranam compiled by
Sekkizhar as well as in the
Tiruthondar Thogai written by...
-
overthrew the Kalabhras.
Acchchutakalaba is
likely the last
Kalabhra king.
Periyapuranam, a
Shaivite religious work of the 12th
century tells us of the Pandya...
-
published many books,
including a
critically acclaimed translation of
Periyapuranam, a
Saivite religious literature in Tamil. "The
History of the Holy Servants...
- of sixty-two Nayanmars. This was
later elaborated by
Sekkilar in his
Periyapuranam (4,272 verses) . Manikkavasagar, who
lived around the 8th
century CE...
-
realisation that it
really existed.
During this time he also read Sekkizhar's
Periyapuranam, a book that
describes the
lives of the 63 Nayanmars,
which "made a...
