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Tevaram
தேவாரம் / Tēvāram
Hymns to the god Shiva by three Tamil poet-saints who lived some 1,300 years ago; they are still sung every day in temples of Tamil Nadu.
- Words
- Sambandar; Appar; Sundarar
- Music
- traditional (sung to the panns, the modes of ancient Tamil music; set in order by Nambiyandar Nambi)
- Culture
- Tamil Shaivas, devotees of Shiva in South India
- Language
- Tamil
- Place
- Tamil Nadu, India
- Date
- hymns of the 7th and 8th centuries CE; collected c. 1000 CE under Rajaraja I
- Type
- Sacred
- The words
- Public domain (hymns of the Tamil Shaiva poet-saints Sambandar, Appar and Sundarar, 7th and 8th centuries CE)
The story
The Tevaram is the name given to the first seven volumes of the Tirumurai, the twelve-volume canon of Tamil Shaivism: 796 hymns of 8,284 stanzas by the three most prominent Shaiva poet-saints, Sambandar, Appar and Sundarar. The "Tevaram trio" are counted among the 63 Nayanars, the revered poet-saints of Shiva. Appar and Sambandar lived around the 7th century and Sundarar in the late 7th or early 8th, though scholars' dates range from the 6th to the 9th. In the Pallava period they travelled across the Tamil country, singing in temples and public places and drawing communities of believers into an emotional devotion to Shiva, at a time when Hindus, Jains and Buddhists competed for royal and urban patronage. Their work is a chief source for the Shaiva bhakti movement of early medieval South India. The name may be read as "the garland of the lord" or as "create love towards the lord".
The first three volumes are Sambandar's: 383 or 384 hymns, all that survive of a reputed 16,000. Born to a family of Shaiva Brahmins at Sirkazhi, he is remembered in the hagiographies as a child prodigy who composed hymns as soon as he could speak, travelled with the musician Tiru Nilakanta Yazhpanar, who set his verses to the yal, and was called to Madurai by Queen Mangayarkkarasiyar to contest the Jain monks at the Pandya court; he died at about sixteen, around 655 CE. Appar, of a Vellala peasant family, turned to Jainism and headed a Jain monastery under the name Dharmasena before his sister Thilagavathiar brought him back to Shiva; his first hymn was sung at the temple of Atikai, and his three volumes hold 313 hymns, of the 3,130 stanzas that survive out of 4,900. It was Sambandar who called him Appar, "father". Sundarar, the third, was adopted by a Pallava feudatory family; his 100 hymns, the seventh volume, tell of his marriages to the temple dancers Paravai and Cankali, his blindness after a broken vow and the return of his sight. The hagiographies of all three, above all the Periya Puranam, are full of miracles, and how far they can be relied on, even for the saints' centuries, is disputed.
Each hymn, or patikam, has ten or eleven four-line stanzas with a refrain, and a closing signature verse. The hymns are arranged by the 23 panns to which they are sung, to a stringed instrument such as the Tamil yal; professional singing of them at the great Shiva temples has been a Tamil tradition since at least the 11th century. They name the places where Shiva was praised: the 275 Paadal Petra Sthalams, the temples their verses revere, still count among the great Shiva shrines, and the hymns drew a sacred geography that tied the Tamil Shaivas to Shaivism across the subcontinent. They praise the Vedas and Sanskrit along with Tamil, and the Madras Tamil Lexicon calls the Tevaram a "Tamil Veda". Inscriptions show the hymns sung in temples by the 8th century, one of them of Nandivarman II, and later kings made provision for singers of patikams.
The hymns lived largely by oral tradition until the 10th century. Tradition holds that Rajaraja I of the Chola dynasty (985–1013 CE), hearing short excerpts at his court, set out to recover them, and that the priest Nambiyandar Nambi found the palm leaves, half eaten by white ants, in a chamber of the Chidambaram Nataraja temple. Nambi arranged the trio's hymns as the first seven books of the canon and set their musical modes with the help of a woman of the Panar caste from the village of Tiru Nilakanta Yazhpanar. Rajaraja appointed 48 singers, the pidarars, and became known as Tirumurai Kanda Cholan, "one who saved the Tirumurai"; a record of Rajendra I names a supervisor of the Tevaram. From the 13th century the monasteries passed the hymns on to the odhuvars, singers of the Vellala community trained in Tevaram schools, and in 1918 eleven more songs were found engraved in a stone temple at Tiruvidavayil. Odhuvars still sing the Tevaram in the Shiva temples of Tamil Nadu after the daily rituals.
What it says
Hymns of personal devotion to Shiva: praise of the god at named temples and holy places, longing, repentance and the joy of the devotee, with a signature verse telling who sang the hymn, why, or what singing it brings. Sambandar's verses are ardent and inventive in metre, Appar's simple and emotional with images drawn from farming life, and Sundarar's warm and at times humorous.
The words
தோடு டையசெவி யன்விடை யேறியோர் தூவெண் மதிசூடிக்tōṭu ṭaiyacevi yaṉviṭai yēṟiyōr tūveṇ maticūṭikHe of the ear that bears the earring, who has mounted the bull, wearing a pure white moon,
காடு டையசுட லைப்பொடி பூசியென் னுள்ளங் கவர்கள்வன்kāṭu ṭaiyacuṭa laippoṭi pūciyeṉ ṉuḷḷaṅ kavarkaḷvaṉsmeared with the ash of the cremation ground of the wilds, the thief who stole my heart,
ஏடு டையமல ரான்முனை நாட்பணிந் தேத்த வருள் செய்தēṭu ṭaiyamala rāṉmuṉai nāṭpaṇin tētta varuḷ ceytawho gave his grace when, in a day of old, he of the petalled flower bowed down and praised him:
பீடு டைய பிரமாபுர மேவிய பெம்மா னிவனன்றேpīṭu ṭaiya piramāpura mēviya pemmā ṉivaṉaṉṟēthe Lord who dwells in glorious Piramāpuram, is it not he?
முற்ற லாமையிள நாகமோ டேன முளைக் கொம் பவைபூண்டுmuṟṟa lāmaiyiḷa nākamō ṭēṉa muḷaik kom pavaipūṇṭuWearing an old tortoise's shell, a young snake and the young tusk of a boar,
வற்ற லோடுகல னாப்பலி தேர்ந்தென துள்ளங் கவர்கள்வன்vaṟṟa lōṭukala ṉāppali tērnteṉa tuḷḷaṅ kavarkaḷvaṉseeking alms with a dried skull for his bowl, the thief who stole my heart,
கற்றல் கேட்டலுடை யார்பெரி யார்கழல் கையாற் றொழுதேத்தப்kaṟṟal kēṭṭaluṭai yārperi yārkaḻal kaiyāṟ ṟoḻutēttapwhile the great ones, rich in learning and in listening, worship his anklets with their hands and praise him:
பெற்ற மூர்ந்தபிர மாபுர மேவிய பெம்மா னிவனன்றேpeṟṟa mūrntapira māpura mēviya pemmā ṉivaṉaṉṟēthe Lord who rides the bull and dwells in Piramāpuram, is it not he?
நீர்ப ரந்தநிமிர் புன்சடை மேலோர் நிலாவெண் மதிசூடிnīrpa rantanimir puṉcaṭai mēlōr nilāveṇ maticūṭiWearing a white moon of moonlight on his upright, tawny matted locks where the water spreads,
ஏர்ப ரந்தவின வெள்வளை சோரவென் னுள்ளங் கவர்கள்வன்ērpa rantaviṉa veḷvaḷai cōraveṉ ṉuḷḷaṅ kavarkaḷvaṉso that my row of lovely white bangles slips away, the thief who stole my heart,
ஊர்ப ரந்தவுல கின்முத லாகிய வோரூ ரிதுவென்னப்ūrpa rantavula kiṉmuta lākiya vōrū rituveṉṉapso that men say, 'This is the one town that was first in the world where towns spread wide':
பேர்ப ரந்தபிர மாபுர மேவிய பெம்மா னிவனன்றேpērpa rantapira māpura mēviya pemmā ṉivaṉaṉṟēthe Lord who dwells in Piramāpuram, whose name has spread, is it not he?
விண்ம கிழ்ந்தமதி லெய்தது மன்றிவி ளங்கு தலையோட்டில்viṇma kiḻntamati leytatu maṉṟivi ḷaṅku talaiyōṭṭilNot only did he shoot the walled cities that rejoiced in the sky; with a gleaming skull-bowl
உண்ம கிழ்ந்துபலி தேரிய வந்தென துள்ளங் கவர்கள்வன்uṇma kiḻntupali tēriya vanteṉa tuḷḷaṅ kavarkaḷvaṉhe came, glad at heart, seeking alms, the thief who stole my heart;
மண்ம கிழ்ந்தவர வம்மலர்க் கொன்றை மலிந்த வரைமார்பில்maṇma kiḻntavara vammalark koṉṟai malinta varaimārpilon his mountain-like chest, rich with the earth-loving snake and koṉṟai flowers,
பெண்ம கிழ்ந்தபிர மாபுர மேவிய பெம்மா னிவனன்றேpeṇma kiḻntapira māpura mēviya pemmā ṉivaṉaṉṟēthe Lord who rejoices in the woman and dwells in Piramāpuram, is it not he?
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ஒருமை பெண்மையுடை யன்சடை யன்விடை யூரும் மிவனென்னorumai peṇmaiyuṭai yaṉcaṭai yaṉviṭai yūrum mivaṉeṉṉa'He has oneness and womanhood, he has matted locks, it is he who rides the bull,' so they say,
அருமை யாகவுரை செய்ய வமர்ந்தென துள்ளங் கவர்கள்வன்arumai yākavurai ceyya vamarnteṉa tuḷḷaṅ kavarkaḷvaṉand as they speak of him as hard to reach, he settled here, the thief who stole my heart;
கருமை பெற்றகடல் கொள்ளமி தந்ததோர் காலம் மிதுவென்னப்karumai peṟṟakaṭal koḷḷami tantatōr kālam mituveṉṉapso that men say, 'This floated in that one age when the dark sea seized all':
பெருமை பெற்றபிர மாபுர மேவிய பெம்மா னிவனன்றேperumai peṟṟapira māpura mēviya pemmā ṉivaṉaṉṟēthe Lord who dwells in Piramāpuram, which won greatness, is it not he?
மறைக லந்தவொலி பாடலோ டாடல ராகி மழுவேந்திmaṟaika lantavoli pāṭalō ṭāṭala rāki maḻuvēntiBecoming a dancer to songs whose sound is mingled with the Vedas, holding the battle-axe,
இறைக லந்தவின வெள்வளை சோரவென் னுள்ளங் கவர்கள்வன்iṟaika lantaviṉa veḷvaḷai cōraveṉ ṉuḷḷaṅ kavarkaḷvaṉso that the row of white bangles on my wrist slips away, the thief who stole my heart;
கறைக லந்தகடி யார்பொழி னீடுயர் சோலைக் கதிர்சிந்தப்kaṟaika lantakaṭi yārpoḻi ṉīṭuyar cōlaik katircintapwhere the tall, lofty groves, dark and full of fragrance, scatter the rays [?],
பிறைக லந்த பிரமாபுர மேவிய பெம்மா னிவனன்றேpiṟaika lanta piramāpura mēviya pemmā ṉivaṉaṉṟēthe Lord who dwells in Piramāpuram, where the crescent moon mingles, is it not he?
சடைமு யங்குபுன லன்னன லன்னெரி வீசிச் சதிர்வெய்தcaṭaimu yaṅkupuṉa laṉṉaṉa laṉṉeri vīcic catirveytaHe with the river clasped in his matted locks, he of the fire, swinging the flame, winning splendour [?],
உடைமு யங்குமர வோடுழி தந்தென துள்ளங் கவர்கள்வன்uṭaimu yaṅkuma ravōṭuḻi tanteṉa tuḷḷaṅ kavarkaḷvaṉwandering with the snake that clasps his garment, the thief who stole my heart;
கடன்மு யங்குகழி சூழ்குளிர் கானலம் பொன்னஞ் சிறகன்னம்kaṭaṉmu yaṅkukaḻi cūḻkuḷir kāṉalam poṉṉañ ciṟakaṉṉamin the cool seashore groves ringed by backwaters that clasp the sea, the lovely golden-winged swan
பெடைமு யங்குபிர மாபுர மேவிய பெம்மா னிவனன்றேpeṭaimu yaṅkupira māpura mēviya pemmā ṉivaṉaṉṟēclasps its mate in Piramāpuram: the Lord who dwells there, is it not he?
வியரி லங்குவரை யுந்திய தோள்களை வீரம் விளைவித்தviyari laṅkuvarai yuntiya tōḷkaḷai vīram viḷaivittaThe shoulders that, glistening with sweat [?], heaved up the mountain, that bred such valour:
உயரி லங்கையரை யன்வலி செற்றென துள்ளங் கவர்கள்வன்uyari laṅkaiyarai yaṉvali ceṟṟeṉa tuḷḷaṅ kavarkaḷvaṉhe crushed the strength of the king of lofty Laṅkā, the thief who stole my heart;
துயரி லங்குமுல கிற்பல வூழிக டோன்றும் பொழுதெல்லாம்tuyari laṅkumula kiṟpala vūḻika ṭōṉṟum poḻutellāmin this world where sorrow shows itself, whenever the many ages appear,
பெயரி லங்குபிர மாபுர மேவிய பெம்மா னிவனன்றேpeyari laṅkupira māpura mēviya pemmā ṉivaṉaṉṟēthe Lord who dwells in Piramāpuram, whose name shines, is it not he?
தாணு தல்செய்திறை காணிய மாலொடு தண்டா மரையானும்tāṇu talceytiṟai kāṇiya māloṭu taṇṭā maraiyāṉumAs Māl and he of the cool lotus strove to see the feet and the brow of the Lord,
நீணு தல்செய்தொழி யந்நிமிர்ந் தானென துள்ளங் கவர்கள்வன்nīṇu talceytoḻi yannimirn tāṉeṉa tuḷḷaṅ kavarkaḷvaṉhe stretched out and rose so high that they gave up, the thief who stole my heart;
வாணு தல்செய்மக ளீர்முத லாகிய வையத் தவரேத்தப்vāṇu talceymaka ḷīrmuta lākiya vaiyat tavarēttapwhile the people of the world, the women of bright brow first among them, praise him,
பேணு தல்செய்பிர மாபுர மேவிய பெம்மா னிவனன்றேpēṇu talceypira māpura mēviya pemmā ṉivaṉaṉṟēthe Lord who dwells in Piramāpuram, which cherishes him, is it not he?
புத்த ரோடுபொறி யில்சமணும்புறங் கூற நெறிநில்லாputta rōṭupoṟi yilcamaṇumpuṟaṅ kūṟa neṟinillāWhile the Buddhists and the witless Jains speak ill of him behind his back, keeping to no true path,
ஒத்த சொல்லவுல கம்பலி தேர்ந்தென துள்ளங் கவர்கள்வன்otta collavula kampali tērnteṉa tuḷḷaṅ kavarkaḷvaṉand speak alike [?], he sought alms through the world, the thief who stole my heart;
மத்த யானைமறு கவ்வுரி போர்த்ததோர் மாயம் மிதுவென்னப்matta yāṉaimaṟu kavvuri pōrttatōr māyam mituveṉṉapso that men say, 'This is a marvel, that he wrapped himself in the hide of the rutting elephant as it reeled':
பித்தர் போலும்பிர மாபுர மேவிய பெம்மா னிவனன்றேpittar pōlumpira māpura mēviya pemmā ṉivaṉaṉṟēthe Lord who dwells in Piramāpuram, like one who is mad, is it not he?
அருநெ றியமறை வல்ல முனியகன் பொய்கை யலர்மேயarune ṟiyamaṟai valla muṉiyakaṉ poykai yalarmēyaThe sage, master of the Vedas of the hard path, who dwells on the flower of the wide pool—
பெருநெ றியபிர மாபுர மேவிய பெம்மா னிவன்றன்னைperune ṟiyapira māpura mēviya pemmā ṉivaṉṟaṉṉaihis Piramāpuram of the great path, and the Lord who dwells there: of him
ஒருநெ றியமனம் வைத்துணர் ஞானசம் பந்தன் னுரை செய்தorune ṟiyamaṉam vaittuṇar ñāṉacam pantaṉ ṉurai ceytaÑāṉacampantaṉ, who knows him with a mind set on the one path, has spoken
திருநெ றியதமிழ் வல்லவர் தொல்வினை தீர்த லெளிதாமேtirune ṟiyatamiḻ vallavar tolviṉai tīrta leḷitāmēthis Tamil of the holy path; for those who know it well, to be rid of their old deeds becomes easy.
Original: Sambandar, first patikam of the first Tirumurai (Tamil Wikisource). Text from Wikisource (திருஞானசம்பந்தர்- 'தோடுடைய செவியன்'); public domain.
The romanization is the Institute’s own (ISO 15919).
The English is the Institute’s own translation, made from the original for this page.
The original is hard to read in places, and our translation of those lines is tentative.
Notes on the translation (31)
- Romanized as written, including the metrical splits of the printed text, which cut words at the feet of the verse ('tōṭu ṭaiyacevi yaṉviṭai' for tōṭuṭaiya ceviyaṉ viṭai; 'pemmā ṉivaṉaṉṟē' for pemmāṉ ivaṉ aṉṟē), as in the site's Tiruppavai. ISO 15919 for Tamil: letters as written (k, c, ṭ, t, p whatever their sound), ṉ ன, ṟ ற, ḻ ழ, ḷ ள, e/ē and o/ō kept apart.
- Last line of every stanza: 'pemmāṉ ivaṉ aṉṟē', 'is not this one the Lord (pemmāṉ, the great lord)?', rendered 'the Lord who dwells in … Piramāpuram, is it not he?'. Second line of stanzas 1-10: 'eṉ uḷḷam kavar kaḷvaṉ', 'the thief who stole my heart'.
- Piramāpuram (Brahmapuram, 'the city of Brahmā') is a name of the town Cīrkāḻi (Sirkazhi). Each stanza's last line gives the town or the Lord an epithet: glorious, whose name has spread, which won greatness, whose name shines, which cherishes him.
- The singer speaks as a woman in love: her bangles slipping from her wrist (3.2, 6.2) is the conventional sign, in Tamil love poetry, of a woman wasting with longing.
- line 1.1: tōṭu is an ear-ornament (a rolled leaf or ring) worn by women; it is usually taken to show that half of the god's body is the goddess. 'tū veṇ mati', 'pure white moon', is the crescent he wears.
- line 1.3: 'ēṭuṭaiya malarāṉ', 'he of the flower with petals', is Brahmā, seated on the lotus; so also 9.1 ('he of the cool lotus') and 11.1 ('who dwells on the flower of the wide pool').
- line 2.1: 'muṟṟal āmai', a full-grown (old) tortoise, its shell worn as an ornament; 'ēṉam muḷai kompu', the boar's sprouting (young) tusk.
- line 2.3: kaḻal is the warrior's anklet, here standing for his feet; 'kaiyāl toḻutu', worshipping with the hands, i.e. with joined palms.
- line 3.1: 'puṉ caṭai', matted locks that are puṉ: tawny, reddish, or thin; 'nīr paranta', where water spreads, i.e. the river held in his hair. 'nilā veṇ mati', a white moon of moonlight.
- line 3.3 and 5.3: the town is praised as the first of all towns and as the one that floated when the dark sea covered everything (mitantatu, 'floated').
- line 4.1: 'viṇ makiḻnta matil', 'walls that rejoiced in the sky': the flying fortified cities the god destroyed with an arrow (eytatu, 'shot').
- line 4.2: 'uḷ makiḻntu' (written uṇmakiḻntu), 'glad at heart'.
- line 4.3: koṉṟai, the Indian laburnum (Cassia fistula), whose golden flowers the god wears; 'maṇ makiḻnta aravam', the snake that delights in the earth.
- line 4.4: 'peṇ makiḻnta', 'who rejoices in the woman': the goddess, joined to him; it could also be read as describing the town.
- line 5.1: 'orumai peṇmai uṭaiyaṉ', 'he who has oneness and womanhood': usually read as one being who is also woman (the form half male, half female); the construction is disputed.
- line 5.2: 'arumai āka urai ceyya amarntu': 'as they speak of him as rare (hard to attain), he settled (here)'; amarntu can also be 'gladly abiding'.
- line 6.1: 'maṟai kalanta oli pāṭalōṭu āṭalar āki', 'becoming a dancer, with songs whose sound is mixed with the Vedas'; maḻu, the battle-axe.
- line 6.3: 'kaṟai kalanta', 'mixed with darkness' (deep shade); 'katir cinta', 'so that the rays scatter': whose rays (the sun's, the moon's) and how the groves scatter them is not clear [?].
- line 6.4: 'piṟai kalanta', 'with which the crescent moon mingles': either the town, whose groves reach the crescent, or the Lord, who wears it.
- line 7.1: 'catir eyta' (written catirveyta): catir is excellence, splendour or grace in the dance; the sense of the phrase is uncertain [?]. 'eri vīci', swinging or flinging fire.
- Wordplay: each stanza repeats one word or sound at the head of all four lines: uṭaiya 'having' (1), -ṟṟa (2), paranta 'spread' (3), makiḻnta 'rejoicing' (4), -rumai (5), kalanta 'mingled' (6), muyaṅku 'clasp, embrace' (7), ilaṅku 'shine, show' (8), -ṇutal cey (9), -tta (10), neṟi 'path' (11). The translation keeps the repeated English word where it can ('clasp' in 7).
- line 8.1-8.2: the king of lofty Laṅkā (Rāvaṇa) lifting the mountain; viyar is read as 'sweat' [?] (also possible: 'great, wide'). 'vīram viḷaivitta', 'which produced valour': it may describe the shoulders or the king.
- line 8.3: ūḻi, an aeon, a world-age.
- line 9.1: 'tāṇutal' is tāḷ 'foot' + nutal 'brow': Māl (Viṣṇu) and Brahmā seeking the feet and the head of the god, who (9.2) grew beyond them until they gave up (oḻiya).
- line 9.3: 'vāḷ nutal makaḷir', 'women of shining brow'. 9.4 'pēṇutal cey', 'which cherishes, worships': the town (or the Lord who cherishes it).
- line 10.1: camaṇ, the Jains (Śramaṇas); 'poṟi il', 'without sense' or 'luckless'. 'puṟaṅ kūṟa', 'speak behind his back, slander'.
- line 10.1-10.2: 'neṟi nillā otta colla' is hard to construe [?]: 'those who keep to no path speaking alike (with one voice)', or 'speaking words that agree (with the world)'.
- line 10.3: 'matta yāṉai', the rutting or maddened elephant; maṟuka, 'so that it was bewildered, reeled'; uri, its hide; māyam, a marvel or illusion.
- line 10.4: 'pittar pōlum', 'like one mad': Pittaṉ, 'the mad one', is an epithet of the god; pōlum may also be a softening particle ('it seems').
- line 11.3: Ñāṉacampantaṉ (Jñānasambandar, Sambandar) names himself, as the closing stanza of a patikam does; 'oru neṟiya maṉam vaittu uṇar', 'who knows (him) having set his mind on the single path'.
- line 11.4: tolviṉai, 'old deeds': the karma of former births; 'tīrtal eḷitu ām', 'ending them becomes easy'. 'Tamil' is the song itself.
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What it inspired
- Periya Puranam (Sekkizhar) 1135 CEhagiography of the Nayanars, forming the last volume of the Tirumurai
- Tevara Arulmuraitirattuanthology of ninety-nine of the trio's verses grouped by the categories of Shaiva Siddhanta
- Tirumurai Kanda Puranamanthology and account of the Tirumurai, chiefly of the Tevaram
What it drew on
- Satarudriya (Yajurveda)prototype of its devotional hymn form
People, places and events
Sources
- Wikipedia, "Tevaram", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tevaram
- Peterson (cited for the dates and the Sanskrit stotra parallels)
- Champakalakshmi (cited for the dating and the three stages of the text)
- Zvelebil (cited for Appar's birth and the character of Sambandar's verse)
- David Dean Shulman, Songs of the Harsh Devotee: The Tēvāram of Cuntaramūrttināyan̲ār, 1990 (further reading)
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