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Arivattaya Nayanar Guru Puja 2027: January 20, Mount Vernon

அரிவாட்டாய நாயனார் · Thai, Thiruvathirai

🪔 Arivattaya Nayanar: Guru Puja
Thai, Thiruvathirai · Mount Vernon, Kansas, America (United States)
எஞ்சாத வாட்டாயன் அடியார்க்கும் அடியேன்
"am the slave to both Māṉakkañcaṟaṉ of unbounded liberality and who had strong shoulders like the mountain, and Tāyaṉ who had a sickle and who never was lax in his service to god."
Thevaram 7.39.2 (lines 6), thevaaram.org: https://www.thevaaram.org/thirumurai_1/songview.php?thiru=7&Song_idField=70390&padhi=039&startLimit=2&limitPerPage=1&sortBy=&sortOrder=DESC ; English gloss from the same page (Translation: V.M. Subramanya Aiyar, French Institute of Pondicherry / EFEO 2006)

Thayanar, a Vellala of Kanamangalam, offered red rice, red greens and tender mango pickle to Shiva every day. Even in poverty, working as a labourer, he kept this offering.

One day he stumbled from hunger and the offering spilled into a crack in the earth. Grieving, he began to cut his own throat with his sickle (arivaal), and Shiva's hand rose from the crack to stop him.

Guru Puja monthThai
Guru Puja starThiruvathirai
BirthplaceKanamangalam
Also known asThayanar
Source: Periya Puranam (Sekkizhar)
← Nayanar Thirunakshatram

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