Sambandar
Sign in to saveAlso known as Thirugnana Sambandar, Tirujnanasambanda, Campantar, Ñāṉacampantar
Sambandar (Tamil: சம்பந்தர், romanized: Campantar), also referred to as Thirugnana Sambandar (Tamil: திருஞானசம்பந்தர், romanized: Tiruñāṉacampantar), was a Shaiva poet-saint of Tamil Nadu who lived sometime in the 7th century CE. According to the Tamil Shaiva tradition, he composed an of 16,000 hymns in complex meters, of which 383 (384) hymns with 4,181 stanzas have survived. These narrate an intense loving devotion (bhakti) to the Hindu god Shiva. Sambandar merged with the divine effulgence when he was sixteen years of age. The surviving compositions of the poet-saint are preserved in the fi
Key facts
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- A copper alloy sculpture of Sambandar with forefinger pointing slightly up (symbolically towards Parvati and Shiva)
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- Hinduism
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- Sambandar
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- The Hindu Saint Sambandar.jpg
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- 6th–7th century Sirkazhiswaram, Chola Empire (present Sirkazhi, Mayiladuthurai district, Tamil Nadu, India)
- Hindu leader.philosophy
- Shaivism, Bhakti
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- Nayanar saint, Muvar
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- Tevaram
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Life
- Inscriptions
- Iconography
- Compositions and legacy
- Temple services
- Tamil Shaiva ethos
- Translation of Sambandar hymns
- Notes
- References
- External links
Sambandar (Tamil: சம்பந்தர், romanized: Campantar), also referred to as Thirugnana Sambandar (Tamil: திருஞானசம்பந்தர், romanized: Tiruñāṉacampantar), was a Shaiva poet-saint of Tamil Nadu who lived sometime in the 7th century CE. According to the Tamil Shaiva tradition, he composed an of 16,000 hymns in complex meters, of which 383 (384) hymns with 4,181 stanzas have survived. These narrate an intense loving devotion (bhakti) to the Hindu god Shiva. Sambandar merged with the divine effulgence when he was sixteen years of age. The surviving compositions of the poet-saint are preserved in the first three volumes of the Tirumurai called Thirukkadik kaappu, 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.
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