Place: Common The ritual of opening the eye of knowledge (upanayanam) happened. 'The God with a ring in His ears appear on the Holy Bull (creation), He has the moon on his head ( protection*), He wears the ash of the burnt bodies in the cremation ground (destruction), He- that thief- has stolen my heart (Hiding), He blessed the Brahma, who is on the Lotus, when he prayed the God in the past (blessing), He is that Peruman of the great Piramaapuram*.' *protection - In order to prevent the moon from getting destroyed the God wore the moon on His head Piramapuram- Another name of Sirkazhi. Pan: Nattappaadai Thoodudaiya cheviyan vidai eeriyoor thuuven madhi choodi Kaadudaiya sudalaip podi poosy ennullam kavar kalvan Eedudaiya malaran munainaat panindheetha arul seidha Peedudaiya piramaapuram meeviya pemman evan andree Translation: This particular song indicates the five major actions of the God, namely, creation, protection, destruction, hiding in illusion, blessing. This is his first hymn and this is the first thiruppathikam in Panniru Thirumurai. When his father came after finishing his bath in the pond, he got angry with the child and asked him 'Who gave you the milk?' Then Sri Thirugnana Sambandhar recited this hymn showing the God to his father. Parvathi Devi gave the gnana milk to the child Thirugnana Sambandhar. One day In his childhood when he was crying in the bank of the pond in the Sirkazhi temple, Lord Shiva appeared with Parvathi Devi on the Holy Bull. Place: Sirkazhi Thirugnana Sambandhar started reciting hymns on the Glory of Lord Shiva from his Childhood itself.It would be concise and correct if it is said that these hymns are the simple sweet easy way to spiritual enlightenment.Hadu Cccam Dvbviewer on this page. Even today some of these padhikams are sung for accomplishing specific needs(2).
Some of these hymns were sung creating marvels (making male palms to female, resurrecting girl pUmpAvai and so on) while all of them bring the Marvel mahEshwara to the heart of one who involves in them. It makes the people wonder how deep knowledge of vEdhas and purANas this young three year old child had which is very obvious from his compositions ! It certainly could not have been possible without the Supreme's blessing. The eleventh one completes the padhikam with his signatural salutations to the Lord and indicates the benefits one gets by praising the Lord shiva with those hymns.Ĭhampan^dhar's thEvArams are highly revered not just because of their sweetness and constructs but mainly due to the depth of its contents.
The tenth hymn cautions against false propagandas. The ninth hymn adores the Lord who stood beyond the reach of vishNu the protector and braHma the creator. The eighth hymn in the compositions pities the ignorance of the valorous rAvaNa who tried to lift the mount kailAsham and notes the boon rAvaNa received when he worshiped in humbleness. ThirunyAna champan^dhar's thEvAram generally follows a pattern. If one wants to feel the splendors of thamiz language constructs the suggestion would be thirunyAna champan^dhar thEvAram if one wants to feel the splendors of music the suggestion would be thirunyAna champan^dhar thEvAram if one wants to feel the splendor of devotion the suggestion would be thirunyAna champan^dhar thEvAram !!! He wrote songs that dwell over the various special poetic constructs of thamiz like thiruvezukURRirukkai, n^Aladi, Iradi, thirumukkAl, thiruvirAgam, thiruvirukkuk kuRaL, yAzmUri, thiruththALachchadhi, thiruviyamakam. It is marvelous to see that his compositions range from simple and sweet to sophisticated and splendid. They are arranged as the first three thirumuRais grouped according to their melody. These are 383(+3) (about 4,000 hymns) in number and are set in 21 (22) paN (melodies - rAgas). But only a very small portion is available now to the world.
This great prodigy who started composing rhyming, sweet, rich in content hymns since when he was three years old gave thousands of hymns (16,000) on the Lord shiva of thousand names. ThirunyAna champan^dha n^ayanAr's padhikams (hymns) are very rich and renowned for the beauty and play of thamiz in them.