![]() ![]() Kulothunga Chola II, then a young king, was a devotee of Lord Siva at Chidambaram and continued the reconstruction of the center of Tamil Saivism that was begun by his ancestors. The twelve volumes of Tamil Ĺšaiva hymns of the sixty-three Nayanars The Guru Puja festival for Sekkizhar is celebrated annually in the month of Vaigasi-Poosam (May-June). Sekkizhar is also called Ganga-kula tilaka (the glory of the Ganga race) and Bagirathi-kula tilaka (the glory of the Bhagiratha race) by Umapati Sivacharya in his work, the Sekkilar Puranam. ![]() Sekkizhar had the title Uttama Chola Pallavan and his brother, the title Tondaiman Pallavaraiyan. His life is celebrated by Umapati Sivacharya in his fourteenth century work (1313 CE) called Sekkizhar Nayanar Puranam. Sekkizhar was a child of precious genius and having noticed this, king Anapaya, that is Kulothunga Chola II appointed him as his Prime Minister on account of his talents. He was a native of Kundrathur village (a suburb of the present-day Chennai), a sub-division of Puliyur-kottam in Thondaimandalam. Sekkizhar was born as Arulmozhithevan, meaning the one of the divine language. ![]()
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