![]() ![]() This yogi sat in the shade of the peepul (arasu) tree and gave one song per annum and thus 3000 songs ! The themes of these nine Agamas have been given as nine tantras in this scripture. Through his songs we get to know that there are 28 Agamas given by the God and he got through his guru 9 Agamas. In these the saint has given the essence of the highly revered Shaiva tantra texts Agamas. He transmigrated from his original body to the body of a cowherd man called mUlan and composed these highly rich hymns. This was given to us as a boon by the great yogi saint thirumUlar (2). Because of this it is called the shastra by the thirumuRai followers. Of all the thirumuRais it deals extensively and explicitly with the philosophical aspects. ![]() ![]() This is tenth one in the Tamil Shaivite thirumuRais (1). The twelth one is Chekkilar´s Periyapuranam. In general, Thirumantiram contains hymns to Siva but shows some ways to people for practice, and mythical conceptions, yoga and tantric rituals and major principles of Saiva Siddhanda are also seen in this work. It gives way to some of the fourteen which contains three thousand songs. It is not only stothram (hymns of Prayer) but also the Sasthram. But it attains first place in periodical and semantical view. ![]() Thirumandiram has tenth place in the Tirumurai series which is the sacred books of saivism. The ninth and eleventh Tirumurais are the collection of some saint´s works. The eighth one is Manikkavasakar´s Thiruvasakam and Tirukkovaiyar. The first seven Tirumurais are the hymns of the three great saivite saints Tirugnana Sambantar, Tirunavukkarasar and Sundarar. Begin poetry of a very high order, they are naturally more popular and authoritative than the other collection which attempts but to systematize the philosophical thought, running through this sacred literature of the hymns. The sacred books of the Saivites in Tamil consist of the two series the one, the sacred literature called Tirumurais, and the other, the exposition of the saivite philosophy called the fourteen sastras. ![]()
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