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Nayanmars


The Nayanars or Nayanmars (Tamil: நாயன்மார்கள்) were Shaivite devotional poets of Tamil Nadu, active between the fifth and the tenth centuries CE. The Tamil Śaiva hagiography Periya Puranam, a volume of the Tirumurai, written during the thirteenth century CE, narrates the history of each of sixty-three Nayanars and the history of nine Thokai Adiyar.
Sundarar's eighth century work Thiruthoṇdar thogai lists 60 Shaiva saints  but gives none of the legends associated with them. In the tenth century CE Nambiyandar Nambi composed the Tirutoṇṭar Antādi, a sequence of interlocking verses the title of which can be rendered as the Necklace of Verses on the Lord's Servants. In this work Nambi adds Sundarar himself and his parents to the sequence, creating what is now the canonical list of sixty-three saints, each with a brief sketch of their legend.
Nayanars were from varied backgrounds, ranging from kings and soldiers to untouchables. The foremost Nayanars are Appar, Sundarar andSambandar. Together with the twelve Vaishnava Alvars, the Nayanars are sometimes accounted South India's 75 Apostles of Bhaktibecause of their importance in the rise of the Hindu Bhakti movement.
They praised 275 of this deity's most holy temple abodes as the Paadal Petra Sthalams of the Shiva Sthalams on the continent.
The sixty-three Nayanmars                                                                                                                                                    63  Adipaththar
  1. Aiyadigal Kadavarkon Nayanar, Pallava King Aiyadigal Perumaanaar
  2. Amaraneedi Nayanar
  3. Anaya Nayanar
  4. Appudhi Adigalar
  5. Arivattaya Nayanar
  6. Chandeshvara Nayanar
  7. Cheraman Perumal Kazharirtrarivaar, Chera King, also called as Kootruva Nayanar
  8. Dandi Adigal Nayanar
  9. Enatinatha Nayanar
  10. Eripaththa Nayanar
  11. Eyarkon Kalikkaama Nayanar
  12. Gananatha Nayanar
  13. Idankazhi Nayanar
  14. Ilayankudi maranar
  15. Isaignaniyaar - a woman
  16. Iyarpagaiar
  17. Kari Nayanar
  18. Kalikkamba Nayanar
  19. Kaliya Nayanar
  20. Kanampulla Nayanar
  21. Kannappa Nayanar
  22. Karaikkal Ammaiyar a woman
  23. Kazharchinga Nayanar
  24. Kochengat Chola, A Chola King
  25. Kotpuli Nayanar
  26. Kulachchirai Nayanar
  27. Kungiliyak Kalaya Nayanar
  28. Manakkanychaara Nayanar
  29. Mangayarkkarasiyar, a woman
  30. Meiporul Nayanar
  31. Munayaduvaar Nayanar
  32. Murkha Nayanar
  33. Murti Nayanar
  34. Muruga Nayanar
  35. Nami Nandi Adigal
  36. Nandanar Thirunalai Povar Nayanar, (popularly known as Nandanar)
  37. Narasinga Muniyaraiyar Nayanar
  38. Nesa Nayanar
  39. Ninra Seer Nedumaara Nayanar
  40. Perumizhalai Kurumba Nayanar
  41. Pugal Cholar, A Chola King
  42. Pugazh Thunai Nayanar
  43. Pusalar
  44. Rudra Pasupathi Nayanar
  45. Saakkiya nayanar
  46. Sadaiya Nayanar
  47. Sambandar (Tirugnaana Sambandar)
  48. Saththi Nayanar
  49. Seruthtunai Nayanar
  50. Sirappuli Nayanar
  51. Siruttonda Nayanar
  52. Somaachi maara nayanar
  53. Sundarar
  54. Thirukkurippu Thondar (Vannar caste)
  55. Thiruneelakandar
  56. Tirumoolar
  57. Tirunavukkarasar, popularly known as Appar
  58. Tiruneela nakkar
  59. Tirunilakanda Yaazpaanar
  60. Vaayilaar
  61. Viranminda nayanar                                                                                                                   62.   .Adipaththar

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