scholarly journals Characteristics of the Studies of Tamil Saiva Siddhanta

2007 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 1073-1078
Author(s):  
Koya TAMURA
Keyword(s):  
Tamil Saiva

Jesus-Disciple Relationship and Guru-Devotee Union: An Intercultural Reading of the Gospel of John and Tiruvācakam

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Gregory Thomas Basker
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of John ◽  
Tamil Saiva

This paper attempts an intercultural reading of the Jesus-Disciple relationship present in the Gospel of John taking the Tamil Śaiva perspective as a distinct hermeneutical approach. The paper presents select principles of ‘union’ represented in the master-disciple relationships of both John and Tiruvācakam and juxtaposes their implications to their respective contexts.

The Pěriya purāṇam frieze at Tārācuram: episodes in the lives of the Tamil śaiva saints

1979 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Marr
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Usual Feature ◽  
Related Group ◽  
Complete Set ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Logical Order ◽  
Tamil Saiva ◽  
The One ◽  
Architectural Ornament

The sculptured frieze that forms the subject of this paper is carved on the main shrine of the Śiva temple at Tārācuram, 5 km. south of Kumpakonam, a provincial town in Thanjavur District, Tamilnadu. Narrative friezes of the great Indian epics are a quite usual feature of Hindu architectural ornament both in India and beyond. It is also the case that individual Tamil Śaiva saints, to whom the collective name in Tamil, Nāyaṉmār, sing. nāyaṉār, is applied, appear commonly in iconography in temples of the Tamil-speaking area. But the frieze at Tārācuram is exceptional in being a portrayal of the complete set of the 63 Nāyaṉmār as they figure in that closely-related group of Tamil medieval texts of which the most important is Cekkiḻār's Pěriya purāṇam. Indeed, as will be shown, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Tārācuram frieze is virtually a set of illustrations to that work, and that the one would tend to confirm the date assumed for the other. Moreover, the various anomalies in Pěriya purānam, such as the total omission of Māṇikkavācakar and the reversing of the logical order of events in the case of Nāyaṉār 51 (N51), Kaḻaṟciṅka nāyaṉār and N54, Pukaḻttuṇai nāyaṉār, are precisely mirrored in the Tārācuram frieze.

scholarly journals Transformation in the Lives of Tamil Śaiva bhaktas

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-153
Author(s):  
Alexander Dubyanskiy
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Tamil Saiva

Transformation in the Lives of Tamil Śaiva bhaktas The article deals with the tradition of the medieval South-Indian branch of Hinduism, which can be defined here as the religion of Tamil Śaiva bhakti reflected in the poetic compositions (the corpus Tirumuṟai) composed by a group of saints called nāyaṉārs (‘leaders’). Hagiographic sources of this tradition, first of all Periya purāṇam, and the nāyaṉārs’ poetic creations reveal some constant motifs which form a certain pattern, a typology of their legendary life-stories. They include: the encounter of a bhakta with Śiva, a trial (a test of devotion, an initiation, a heroic deed), a participation in the myth, rejection of sexual (family) life, emotional experience and revelation of a poetical gift.

scholarly journals Divine games and rituals: how Tamil Saiva/Hindu siblings learn faith practices through play

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eve Gregory ◽  
Vally Lytra ◽  
Arani Ilankuberan
Keyword(s):  
Faith Practices ◽  
Tamil Saiva
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