Sambandar

  • Sambandar, also referred to as Tirugnana Sambandar (lit. Holy Sage Sambandar), Tirujnanasambanda, Campantar or Jnanacampantar, was a Shaiva poet-saint of Tamil Nadu who lived sometime in the 7th century CE.
  • He was a child prodigy who lived just 16 years. According to the Tamil Shaiva tradition, he composed an oeuvre of 16,000 hymns in complex meters, of which 383 (384) hymns with 4,181 stanzas have survived.
  • 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 ....
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