![]() Rajaraja thus became known as Tirumurai Kanda Cholan meaning one who saved the Tirumurai. The brahmanas ( Dikshitars) in the temple opposed the mission, but Rajaraja intervened by consecrating the images of the saint-poets through the streets of Chidambaram. It is believed that by divine intervention Nambi found the presence of scripts, in the form of cadijam leaves half eaten by white ants in a chamber inside the second precinct in Thillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram. He sought the help of Nambi Andar Nambi, who was a priest in a temple. Pranshu on a mission to recover the hymns after hearing short excerpts of Tevaram in his court. His hymns in praise of Sambandar and Appar provide some biography of those saints. Nambi also wrote a memoir of the lives of the sixty-three great devotees mentioned by Suntarar the Tiruttondar Tiruvandhadhi. They were able to recover around ten percent of the entire set of hymns. Nambi managed to get palm-leaf manuscripts of the hymns, though some had been eaten away by termites. In Nambiyandar Nambi Puranam also called as Tirumurai Kanda Puranam, Nambi identifies his patron, the great Arumolivarman alias Rajaraja Chola, as ராசா ராசா மன்னவன் அபயகுல சேகரன் requested him to collect the hymns of the three great poet-saints Sambandar, Appar and Sundarar. Nambiyandar Nambi was born in the town of Thirunaraiyur into the tradition of the Adi Shaivites, brahmin priests in the temples of Lord Shiva. 5 Related Devara temple near nambi's village.
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