Native placeKaveripoompattinam (Puhar)
Associated templeKaveripoompattinam (Puhar), Chola country
Guru PujaMargazhi - Uthiram
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The Life
A wealthy merchant of Kaveripoompattinam (Puhar), Iyarpagai vowed never to refuse anything asked by a devotee of Shiva. To test him, Shiva came as an aged brahmin devotee and asked for the merchant's own beautiful and devoted wife. Without hesitation Iyarpagai consented, and his wife too obeyed her husband's word as command. When her kinsmen took up arms to stop the brahmin leading her away, Iyarpagai fought them off himself to protect the devotee's wish, escorting the pair safely beyond the town's boundary. There the brahmin vanished, and Shiva appeared with Uma upon the sacred bull, praising Iyarpagai's unflinching surrender and granting liberation to him and his wife.
சுந்தரர் (சுந்தரமூர்த்தி நாயனார்)Sundarar (Sundaramurthi Nayanar)
The comrade of Shiva whose wedding the Lord halted by claiming him as His bond-slave.
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திருநீலகண்ட நாயனார்Thiru Neelakanta Nayanar
The Chidambaram potter bound for life by his wife's vow taken in Shiva's name.
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இளையான்குடி மாற நாயனார்Ilayankudi Mara Nayanar
The farmer who reaped his own seed-paddy in a storm to feed a devotee.
Ilayankudi (Sivaganga district), Chola countryRead the life ›