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	Oppiliappan List Archive Jul 2004
		Sundarar was a handsome man and was hence soon set to marry a beautiful maiden.
		Sundarar and the rest of the wedding assembly were shocked at the claim of the old Brahmin stranger who seemed to have suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
		Sundarar's 'vismriti' vanished, so to say, and 'Forgetfulness' was replaced with the one true memory ('smriti') that, although remaining ever clouded in the consciousness of Man, is yet never erased out of his soul -- the Memory of the Almighty.
	www.ibiblio.org /sripedia/oppiliappan/archives/jul04/msg00075.html (912 words)

	Varalaaru - Monthly Magazine for Tamil History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sundarar was taken to Kaiilas when he was praying in Tiruvanjaikalam, a coastal town of the Chera country.
		Sundarar very clearly says that Lord Varuna, the god of water came and gave him a send off in the form of sea.
		A man is seen traveling along with Sundarar by clinging himself to the tail of the elephant.
	www.varalaaru.com /default.asp?articleid=104 (1020 words)

	Siva's eight forms
		Sundarar's Grandfather signed a document which made him and his progeny slaves of an old man. Sundarar recognized the signature of his grandfather in the document.
		Because Siva made Sundarar his slave, it fell upon Siva to upkeep his slave and meet his "needs." Siva makes his devotees His slaves first and later becomes the slave of the devotees; there is no way that Siva can sit idly by without catering to the needs of his devotees.
		Sundarar was in pain at the prospect of the descent to earth because he would be leaving the sacred feet of Siva and appear as the enjoyer of ephemeral pleasures of the flesh on earth.
	www.bhagavadgitausa.com.cnchost.com /Siva-Ashtamurthy.htm (1527 words)

	IMC India - Dalit struggle and a legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sundarar in his Thiruthondar Thogai, a compilation of information on the 63 nayanmaars who spearheaded the Bhakti movement by propagating the ideals of the Hindu religion, particularly of the Saiva sect, makes a one-line reference to Nandan, also one of these nayanmaars.
		Sundarar's version does not explain how Nandan got that name or what hurdles he had to face in entering the temple.
		While Sundarar in his brief reference highlights the inner purity of Thirunaalaippovar's devotion to God, Nambiandar Nambi, even as he applauds his unquestionable devotion, thinks it fit to mention his caste and the disability his caste identity caused him.
	india.indymedia.org /en/2003/04/4542.shtml (3947 words)

	63 Nayanmars - Sri Swami Sivananda
		Sundarar saw the heaps of grain at Kundaiyur and knew that it was His Lila.
		Sundarar was surprised at this miracle of Lord Siva and sang His glory and returned to Tiruvarur.
		Cheraman learnt by intuition of Sundarar’s departure for Kailasa.
	www.tamilnation.org /sathyam/east/saivaism/63nayanmars.htm (18382 words)

	Lost Poems of Sundarar, Appar and Manickavasagar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is being said that lot of poems of Appar sundarar and Manickavasagar are being lost while it is being kept at Chidambaram.
		We lost 80% of the songs composed by the Tamil Saiva Trinity (Appar, Sambandhra and Sundarar: the last two themselves anthaNars) and traditional burning of Tamil mansucripts in temple yagams, as portrayed poignantly by UVS Iyer in his autobiography?
		After that sekkizhar is appointed by the king to compile the the survived poems and he went to all the places to collect the details of the nayanmars.
	forumhub.mayyam.com /tlit/24377.15.51.01.html (341 words)

	Tiruvennainallur Kripapureeswarar -Taduttaatkonda Nathar Temple - Shivastalam
		Sundarar is said to have been reminded of the purpose of his life by Shiva here, and this his where he sang his first hymn 'Pittaa Pirai Soodi'.
		This ancient temple of Taduttatkonda Naathar was renovated during the period of Uttama Chola (10th century) and the structure today is a result of later renovations.
		On the northern side of this hall in a chamber, are enclosed a fine set of bronze images of Sundarar, Paravaiyar, Sangiliyaar, Cheraman Perumaal, Manikkavacharar and others.
	www.templenet.com /Tamilnadu/s266.html (381 words)

	Meditation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sundarar later visited a number of holy places and sang the praise of the Lord in all of them.
		Sundarar dived into the eastern side of the tank and searched for the gold, as though he had put them there.
		When Sundarar and his retinue were passing through Tirumuruganpondi, the Lord sent His Servants to rob Sundarar of all the riches that he had received from Cheraman.
	sivanandaonline.org /graphics/ebooks/swami_sivanandaji/downnload/sisty_three_nayanar_saints.html (15616 words)

	Culture Course Vol - IX - Sundarar (Page7)
		Next morning heaps of rice could be seen in the house of the devotee and in the village and he in turn filled Sundarar's granary with rice.
		On that night Sundarar slept at an inn heaping some bricks beneath his head as a pillow.
		Sundarar took them to Tiruvarur and fed the devotees by selling them.
	www.hindubooks.org /culture_course/book9/sundarar/page7.htm (153 words)

	Organic Yoga of the Sages
		One day, she met Sundarar in the temple and fell in love with him; Sundarar was attracted by Paravayar’s beauty, prompted by past karma.
		He wanted to marry her and, though he was already married, Sundarar promised he would not part from her under any circumstance and the marriage was solemnised.
		Sundarar mentally wished to take Cheraman Perumal (in whose company has gone on several pilgrimages and met many of the kings of South India) also with him to Kailasa.
	www.nandhi.com /sundarar.htm (834 words)

	The Hindu : Miscellaneous / Religion : Divine intercession
		Lord Siva named him Alala Sundarar as he was very handsome and also for his help during the churning of the milk- ocean when Siva drank the poison that emerged.
		Sundarar prayed to God and He mediated on his behalf by appearing in her dream when she questioned how he would be faithful when he already had a wife.
		Sundarar beseeched the Lord to retire under a tree in the temple precincts forgetting that the Lord was omnipresent when he promised her.
	www.hindu.com /2006/02/17/stories/2006021706871100.htm (428 words)

	Loving Ganesha, Chapter 17: Saint Auvaiyar Ma
		One day, near the end of her life, it is said that Auvaiyar was in the midst of her daily worship of her beloved Ganesha.
		She had a vision in which Saint Sundarar was proceeding to Mount Kailasa, Siva's abode, with his comrade, King Seraman.
		Sundarar was riding a white elephant, and Seraman was on a white horse.
	www.himalayanacademy.com /resources/books/lg/lg_ch-17.html (3423 words)

	Tiruvarur - Tevaram Hymns
		Hymns praising Tiruvarur have been composed by the three primary Nayanmaars (Sambandar, Appar and Sundarar) of the 63 Saivite Saints who led the Bhakti movement of the 1st millennium CE.
		Sundarar alludes to Tyagaraja as his friend or a companion who guided him through various events in his life.
		Sundarar along with the other 62 that he mentioned in his hymn on Tiruvarur constitute the arupattimoovar or the 63 Saivite Saints whose life history is described in detail in the Periya Puraanam - a colossal work by Sekkizhaar a poet of the later Chola period.
	www.templenet.com /Tamilnadu/Tiruvarur/tiruvarurmoovar.html (402 words)

	Thirupãvai Day 18 - Page 1
		Since Sundarar was a King, who had turned into a Mahãtma, he had great taste (‘suchi-ruchi’) for dressing up.
		Sundarar was grief stricken seeing the people suffer.
		Sundarar asks Lord Ganesha to check up if they were the same gold that were dropped at Vriddhãchalam.
	www.madhuramurali.org /swamigal/essay/thirupavai/ji_thirupavaiday18a.html (3149 words)

	Pradosham at Abu Dhabi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sundarar was asked to follow Lord Shiva who disappeared on the pretext of showing them HIS house, and promptly vanished.
		The young bride fixed her mind on the holy feet of Sundarar, shed her mortal coil and attained the immortal abode of Lord Shiva.
		Sundarar had quarrelled with Lord and Lord Himself called him Vanthondaan (the devotee who used harsh words).
	www.pradosham.com /thiruvennai.php (986 words)

	sundarar-2
		For though the intention to sing the glories of the adiyaars was already there in his mind, he was not sure how to begin it.
		Saivism is centered not on dogmas, creeds and practices but rather on the attitude of SEARCHING for TRUTH and living in it and which demands that one remains always steadfast in the search for TRUTH and thus avoid falling into illusions and delusions.
		Sundarar says that he is service to all such individuals and which also means that they are too taken as Saivites.
	arutkural.tripod.com /tmcampus/sundarar-2.html (1192 words)

	Sundaramoorthy Nayanar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sundaramurti Nayanmar, shortly known as Sundarar, was one of the four most prominent Nayanmars, and he probably lived in the 8th century.
		The legend stats that while the Sundarar was being married, the process was interrupted by Shiva.
		While the saint Sundarar continued his journey upward to the heaven sitting on the elephant, the king followed him on his horse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sundaramoorthy_Nayanar (268 words)

	Tirumantiram Epilogue
		As Sundarar-Tirumular was wandering in the countryside, he came across a herd of cows in grief and tears and a dead body of apparently the cowherd, who was bitten by the snake.
		Sundarar took pity on the cows and the cowherd; by yogic Prapti (transmigration into another body), he entered into the body of the cowherd and revived him back to life.
		Sundarar thought that this was one of the plays of Siva and accepted the body of Mulan as his own as a matter of Siva's Grace.
	www.bhagavadgitausa.com.cnchost.com /TIRUMANTIRAM-epilogue.htm (1513 words)

	Culture Course Vol - IX - Sundarar (Page8)
		While on a visit to Tiruvottiyur, Sundarar met a peasant girl named Sangiliyar at the temple.
		The Lord appeared in the girl's dream and asked her to marry Sundarar.
		Sundarar later on went to Tiruvarur to attend the Lord's festival.
	www.hindubooks.org /culture_course/book9/sundarar/page8.htm (108 words)

	Chidambaram
		The temple was in vogue for centuries,but its known glory in records begins with the visit of Hiranya Chakravarthi of Kashmir around 500 A.D. The king is said to have been cured of his leprosy with a single dip in the temple pushkarini, Sivaganga thirtham.
		The four great saiva acharyas Appar, Sambandar, Sundarar and Manikkavachakar are connected with this holy temple and produced master pieces eulogising their respective paths - Charya, Kriya, Yoga and Gnana.
		The images of the Saiva saints Appar, Sambandar, Sundarar and Manikkavachakar are placed in the temple entrances through which they entered the temple (Appar - West, Sambandar - South, Sundarar - North and Manikkavachakar - East).
	www.tamilnadutourism.org /temples/citywise/Chidambaram.aspx?catid=C2&subcat1id=C2S1&subcat2id=C2S1S10&sm=C2S1S10 (684 words)

	DBLP: Sundarar Mohan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sundarar Mohan, Jian Ping Sun, Pinaki Mazumder, George I. Haddad: Device and circuit simulation of quantum electronic devices.
		Sundarar Mohan, Pinaki Mazumder: Analytical and simulation studies of failure modes in SRAMs using high electron mobility transistors.
		Sundarar Mohan, Pinaki Mazumder: Wolverines: standard cell placement on a network of workstations.
	informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/m/Mohan:Sundarar.html (128 words)

	Culture Course Vol - IX -Sundarar (Page9)
		His first wife refused to receive him at Tiruvarur, but God interceded on his behalf and brought about their reconciliation.
		Sundarar came into contact with another saint from Kerala called Cheraman.
		Thereupon a divine white elephant came down from Kailasa and Sundarar ascended to Kailasa on its back.
	www.hindubooks.org /culture_course/book9/sundarar/page9.htm (97 words)

	Temples of South India, Tamil Nadu Temples, Chidamabaram Temple of Lord Nataraja
		Each of the four most revered Saivite Saints (Appar, Sundarar, Sambandar and Manikkavacakar) has worshipped at Chidambaram, and the bulk of Manikkavacakar's work in praise of Shiva at Chidambaram.
		Accordingly, their images are placed in the temple entrances corresponding to their points of entry into the temple.
		One legend commemorating the dance duel between the doyens of dance Shiva and Kali is associated with Chidambaram.
	www.lotussculpture.com /bronze_sculpture_chidambaram.htm (1867 words)

	The Hindu : Fourfold route of Saiva philosophy
		Lord Siva acted as Sundarar's friend, corrected his angularities and brought him back to the correct path.
		Dealing with Sundarar's past, Sri M. Ramanan, in a lecture, said, he was one of the attendants in Kailas (Siva's abode) who had come down to the world as a mortal due to his amours.
		Another saint of his time, Kalikamar, was averse to the liberty taken by Sundarar with God to settle his personal problems as he abhorred invoking God's aid for low purposes.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/2000/09/21/stories/10210906.htm (487 words)

	Culture Course Vol - IX - Sundarar (Page1)
		SUNDARAR was a famous Saivite saint who lived in the eighth century.
		He was so beautiful to look at, that people called him Sundaramurti, or the embodiment of beauty.
		He was so taken with the boy's beauty that, with the permission of his parents, he adopted him as his own son.
	www.hindubooks.org /culture_course/book9/sundarar/page1.htm (121 words)

	Nilacharal - A Tamil entertainment ezine presenting interesting contents and useful services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		So Sundarar took birth on Earth; when his marriage to a Brahmin girl was about to take place, Siva decided that the time was ripe to free Sundarar from worldly illusions.
		He appeared in the form of an old man, declared that Sundarar was his slave and flourished a document to support his statement.
		Parvathi’s maids whom Sundarar had been distracted with, had also taken birth on Earth as Sangili Nachiar in Thiruvaroor and Paravai Nachiar near Thiruvotriyur, and were waiting for Sundarar.
	www.nilacharal.com /news/religion/baba32.html (1332 words)

	::Sahaja Yoga-Tamil Nadu:: About Thirumoolar
		There lived a great Sidhar called ‘ Sundarar ‘ in Himalayas.
		Sundarar comes down and notices that the cowherd “Moola” is dead and the cattle are crying, missing him.
		He takes pity on the cows and hides his body and through yogic power, enters the body of ‘Moola’.
	www.tnsahaj.org /AboutThirumoolar.htm (176 words)

	Biography of SundaraMoorthy Nayanar - Hari's Carnatic
		The young Sundarar, grew up as a royal child and simultaneously learned the Vedas too.
		On the day of the wedding, adorned in wedding fineries Sundharar set forth in a big procession riding a horse, to the wedding hall.
		Sundarar was worried as to how to create songs to which Lord said that since he called Him piththan (madman) he could sing starting with piththan.
	www.angelfire.com /musicals/kallidaihari/sundara_Script.htm (733 words)

	The Ganapathi Lore
		When the latter, speeding on his way riding a white elephant, invites the poetess to come along with him, she declines politely saying that her prayers to Lord Vinayaka are not complete and advises Sundarar to proceed.
		However, on the completion of her prayer routine Lord Ganapathi lifts her up in His long, limitless trunk and just places her in Kailas much ahead of Sundarar's arrival.
		Sundarar rode on an elephant but Avvaiyaar literally got a lift on an elephant's trunk.
	www.chennaionline.com /festivalsnreligion/religion/ganesh.asp (446 words)

	SRUTI-India's premier music and dance magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In his elaborate article on Sangeeta Sthalam-- Tiruvarur, Sriram.V could have allotted one more paragraph to describe the songs sung 1300 years ago, by saint Sundaramoorti Nayanar, which are quite immortal.
		The song Ponnum meiporulum taruvanai on the deity Tyagaraja, is the magnum opus of Sundarar.
		Sundarar, who did not spare even the Lord in his songs, earned the enviable title, "Tambiran Thozhar" (bosom friend of the Lord).
	www.sruti.com /Nov04/sbox.htm (449 words)

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