Nambi then prayed to Pillaiyar to help the King. He then requested Nambi to help him to find the origin and the source of the hyms by Samayakuravargal. The King was in great joy to see his offerings were received by Pollappillaiyar. The King came to Thirunaraiyur with many offerings for Pillaiyar and paid his respect to Nambiandar Nambigal. This miracle of Nambi reached the King Raja Raja Cholan and decided to visit Nambi. Pillayar became the guru of Nambi and he was then known by the name Nambiandar Nambigal. Pillaiyar then appeared and ate all his offerings. Due to this he decided to hit his head on a rock and that is when a voice was heard “ Nambi.wait!”.
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When he realized that the offerings were untouched by Pillaiyar, he assumed that there was a mistake in his worship. He believed that the food and sweets offerings (Neivethiyam) offered to Pillaiyar will be eaten by Pillaiyar after the prayers. As a child, he worshipped Pollappillaiyar and performed all necessary rituals for Pillaiyar. In Thirunaraiyur, there lived a great devotee named Nambi. The king was mesmerized with the hyms but he was in deep sorrow as these beautiful heart melting hyms are nowhere to be found. Some of the devotees of Lord Siva used to sing a few lines of the Thevarams that they know of. Raja Raja Cholan who was known as Abayakulasekara was was inspired by the idea of winning back the lost hyms. Thirumurai Kanda Puranam by Saint Umapathi Sivam explains in detail of how these works were found. The twelve Thirumurais were compiled as such in different stages and st different times, but the hyms of St Sambanthar, Appar and Sundarar ( first seven Thirumurais) were collected by Nambiandar Nambigal at the Chidambaram Nadaraja temple. The fact that the arrangement is not chronological, reveals that they were arranged as and when a gap was felt by the Saivite world getting to know in stages the significance of the Saivite works not included in the earlier compilation. Her hyms were included only in the 11th Thirumurai, whereas the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Thirumurais was formed ignoring the chronological order. Karaikkal Ammaiyar, great devotee of Lord Siva, lived before the period of St Thirunganasambantar. Special halls called ‘Thirukkai Kotti’ because of keeping time with hands, were built for recitation of these hyms and arrangements were made for feeding people who recited the hyms. Facilities were made in the temple premises by Chola emperorsfor the recitation of hyms. The practice of singing saiva hyms was an important item of temple worship during the period Bakthi movement. Thus this is also better known as Stotram as it is in overall directs the inner meaning of the work towards Lord Siva. But in common it is acknowledged as Literary work or Nuul. The songs of the four Gurumar are very vitalizing and nurture the minds to be a mature loveful and wise abode of the Supreme Shiva.The term ‘Murai’ means antiquity ( Thonmai ), providence or destiny ( Uul), collection ( Kooddu), discipline or orderliness (Olunggu), literary work ( Nuul) etc. The latter two saints kept up the momentum created by the initial two and made the land a real glorious place. They were undaunted and roared, "We are slaves only for the Supreme!" The Grace of God acting as the power behind them they won and also brought to their fold the kings who tried to liquidate them. For bringing about these changes they had to undergo many fatal threats given by the emperors of the land. These four traveled through the length and breadth of Tamilnadu kindling the spiritual confidence that the God is not a difficult one and you all can live blissfully and also get supreme liberation, sing and hail, worship our Lord Shiva’s fame - the truth of the four holy Vedas! By their tireless effort they brought back the light in the faces of the masses.
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This was a golden period between 7th and 12th centuries. At this time by the Grace of God came the resurgence of the shaivism in the land of God given Tamil happened with the four pillars rising up the glorious light of shaivism.