what year did RRC retrive the Tirumurai
  • hi sirs,

    What was the year RRC retrived the Tirumurai.
  • We now know tha rrc was forgotten for atleast a part of his deeds
    like the big temple construction till 19th century. but was he
    remembered for the thirumurai event? any details on it.

    venketesh
  • hi venkat

    checking

    ref

    An Outline of the Religious Literature of India By J.N. Farquhar
    ( google books)
    pg 256

    http://books.google.com/books?
    id=lwggjSPrjxUC&pg=PA256&lpg=PA256&dq=chola+tiru+murai&source=web&ots
    =6Y9UbUN6BO&sig=rgoaY7oHrG7hTH-t8S6dg9uG2Ug#PPA255,M1

    Nambi andar nimbi was a contemporary of Nathamuni the Vaishnava
    leader and of Rajaraja the great, the chola king ( ad 985-1018??).
    He gathered the tamil hymns of the three into one collection,named
    it the tevaram, the divine garland, and with the help of rajaraja
    had them set to dravidian music (he began the compilation in the
    reign of rajaraja and finished it under his son rajendra 1
    ). He then arranged to have them sung in the chief shrines. As
    inscription of rajaraja's shows that he introduced them into his
    magnificient temple at tanjore. Sung by a special choir, quite
    distinct form the priestly ministrants, they gave the worship a
    fresh interest and splendor without disturbing the ancient Sanskrit
    liturgy. Manikka vacakar's glorious verse was probably too recent to
    find a place in this collection.

    Nambhi's name is also connected with the formation of a larger body
    of tamil scripture, which is the called tirumurai, ie the sacred
    books. He collected most of shiva hymns then in existence and
    grouped them in eleven books, and the collection was completed by
    the addition of the twelfth in the 12th c. the contents are a) the
    tevaram,b) the tiruvacakam c) the tiru isaipa, lyrics by nine
    authors, d) the tirumantiram e) misc poems including nambhi's own
    works f) the periya puranam, or great legent, a liber sanctorum,
    forming the twelfth book. Sekkiar, the author of periya puranam, the
    great legend may be dated to the first half of the 12th c. it is a
    poem in 72 cantors on the lives of the 63 saiva sints of the tamil
    country, and is founded on a decade of sundarar's and the tondar
    tiru anthadi which is one of nambi's poems. No work is more loved by
    saivas than the periya puranam. To about the same date we may assign
    a famous translation, the skanda p, done into tamil verse and called
    the kanda puranam by kanchi appar of conjeevaram

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