The 18,000 verses that it comprises are a valuable archive of not only the creative output of several Saiva saints but also of the various shrines they visited, their observations of life and the evolution of Tamil language.After the Sangam works, this would perhaps be the next voluminous corpus.The last section is Sekkizhar’s Periya Puranam, the hagiography of the Arupathumoovar written in the 12th century. The eighth Tirumurai is dedicated to the creations of Manikkavachagar, While ninth Tirumurai comprises the works of nine lesser-known poets of the time of King Raja Raja Chola I (r 992-1014 CE), collectively known as the Tiruvisaippa.These were compiled in the 11th century by the scholar Nambiyandar Nambi.The first seven sections of the Tirumurai comprise the works by the above saints.This was a work in progress for over 600 years as it begins with the Thevaram - the hymns by Sambandar, Appar and Sundarar (the foremost of the 63 Tamil Saivite saints collectively known as the Nayanmar or Arupathumoovar).The Panniru Tirumurai is, as the name suggests, a 12-part compilation book.
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