Hinduism - Who Was Tirunavukkarashu Appar?

 

Tirunavukkarashu Appar ("father") (7th century) was the given name of the Nayanar poet-saint who was most generally referred to as Appar.

Appar was one of the first of the Nayanars, a group of sixty-three southern Indian poet-saints who lived in the seventh and eighth centuries and were devotees (bhakta) of the deity Shiva.

The Nayanars, along with their contemporaries the Alvars, who were Vishnu followers, were instrumental in the renewal of Hindu religion by their fervent devotion (bhakti) to a personal deity, which they expressed through songs sung in Tamil.

~Kiran Atma


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