Nandanar, the Glossary
Nandanar (also spelt as Nantanar), also known as Thirunaallaippovaar and Tirunallaipovar Nayanar,Other names include: Nandan (Nanda, Nantan), Tirunalaipovanar, Nalaippovar, Nalaippovan was a Nayanar saint, who is venerated in the Hindu sect of Shaivism.[1]
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80 relations: A. Padmanabhan, Añjali Mudrā, Adhanur, Thanjavur, Adi Dravida, Airavatesvara Temple, B. R. Ambedkar, Bhakta Nandanar, Bhakti, Bharatanatyam, Brahmin, Caste system in India, Chidambaram, Chola Empire, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Dalit, Dandapani Desikar, Darasuram, Debt bondage, Devadasi, Dinamalar, Dreadlocks, Dvarapala, Frontline (magazine), Gana, Ganesha, Garbhagriha, Gopalakrishna Bharati, Hagiography, Hinduism, Indira Parthasarathy, Jñāna, K. B. Sundarambal, Kamandalu, Kolar Gold Fields, N. S. Krishnan, Nakshatra, Nambiyandar Nambi, Nandanar (1942 film), Nandanar (disambiguation), Nandi (Hinduism), Nataraja, Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram, Nayanars, Nonviolent resistance, P. K. Raja Sandow, Parai, Paraiyar, Parikrama, Periya Puranam, Periyar, ... Expand index (30 more) »
- Dalit Hindu saints
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- Paraiyar leaders
A. Padmanabhan
A.
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Añjali Mudrā
Añjali Mudrā (अञ्जलि मुद्रा), is a hand gesture mainly associated with Indian religions and arts, encountered throughout Asia and beyond.
Adhanur, Thanjavur
Adhanur is a village in the Vedaranyam taluk of Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Adi Dravida
Adi Dravida (or Adi Dravidar) is a term that has been used since 1914 in South India to denote Paraiyars.
Airavatesvara Temple
Airavatesvara Temple is a Hindu temple of Chola architecture located in Kumbakonam, Thanjavur District in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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B. R. Ambedkar
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Bhīmrāo Rāmjī Āmbēḍkar; 14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served as Law and Justice minister in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru, and inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement after renouncing Hinduism.
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Bhakta Nandanar
Bhakta Nandanar is a 1935 Tamil-language film directed by Manik Lal Tandon.
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Bhakti
Bhakti (भक्ति; Pali: bhatti) is a term common in Indian religions which means attachment, fondness for, devotion to, trust, homage, worship, piety, faith, or love.
Bharatanatyam
Bharatanatyam is an Indian classical dance form that originated in Tamil Nadu, India.
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Brahmin
Brahmin (brāhmaṇa) is a varna (caste) within Hindu society.
Caste system in India
The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes.
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Chidambaram
Chidambaram is a major town and municipality in Cuddalore district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, on the banks of the Vellar River where it meets the Bay of Bengal.
Chola Empire
The Chola Empire, which is often referred to as the Imperial Cholas, was a medieval Indian, thalassocratic empire that was established by the Chola dynasty that rose to prominence during the middle of the ninth century and united southern India under their rule.
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)) is a communist political party in India.
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Dalit
Dalit (from dalita meaning "broken/scattered") is a term first coined by the Indian social reformer Jyotirao Phule for untouchables and outcasts, who represented the lowest stratum of the castes in the Indian subcontinent.
Dandapani Desikar
M M Dandapani Desikar (August 27, 1908 – June 26, 1972) was a Carnatic vocalist, actor and composer.
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Darasuram
Darasuram or Dharasuram is a neighbourhood in the city of Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India.
Debt bondage
Debt bondage, also known as debt slavery, bonded labour, or peonage, is the pledge of a person's services as security for the repayment for a debt or other obligation.
Devadasi
In India, a devadasi is a female artist who is dedicated to the worship and service of a deity or a temple for the rest of her life.
Dinamalar
Dinamalar is an Indian Tamil daily newspaper.
Dreadlocks
Dreadlocks, also known as dreads or locs, are a hairstyle made of rope-like strands of hair.
Dvarapala
A Dvarapala or Dvarapalaka (Sanskrit, "door guard"; IAST) is a door or gate guardian often portrayed as a warrior or fearsome giant, usually armed with a weapon - the most common being the ''gada'' (mace).
Frontline (magazine)
Frontline is a fortnightly English language magazine published by The Hindu Group of publications headquartered in Chennai, India.
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Gana
The word (Sanskrit: गण) in Sanskrit and Pali means "flock, troop, multitude, number, tribe, category, series, or class".
Ganesha
Ganesha (गणेश), also spelled Ganesh, and also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka, Lambodara and Pillaiyar, is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon and is the Supreme God in the Ganapatya sect.
Garbhagriha
A garbhagriha is the innermost sanctuary of Hindu and Jain temples, what may be called the "holy of holies" or "sanctum sanctorum".
Gopalakrishna Bharati
Gopalakrishna Bharathi (கோபாலகிருஷ்ண பாரதி) (1810–1896) was a Tamil poet and a composer of Carnatic music.
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Hagiography
A hagiography is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a preacher, priest, founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions.
Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Indira Parthasarathy
R. Nandanar and Indira Parthasarathy are people from Thanjavur district.
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Jñāna
In Indian philosophy and religions, (ज्ञान) is "knowledge".
K. B. Sundarambal
Kodumudi Balambal Sundarambal (11 October 1908 – 15 October 1980) was an Indian actress and singer from Erode district, Tamil Nadu. She performed in Tamil cinema and was referred to as the "Queen of the Indian stage." A political activist during the Indian independence movement, K.B. Sundarambal was the first film personality to enter a state legislature in India.
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Kamandalu
Kamandalu (Sanskrit: कमण्डलु), kamandal, or kamandalam is an oblong water pot, originating from the Indian subcontinent, made of a dry gourd (pumpkin) or coconut shell, metal, wood of the Kamandalataru tree, or from clay, usually with a handle and sometimes with a spout.
Kolar Gold Fields
Kolar Gold Fields (K.G.F.) is a mining region in K.G.F. taluk (township), Kolar district, Karnataka, India.
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N. S. Krishnan
Nagercoil Sudalaimuthu Krishnan, popularly known as Kalaivanar and also as NSK, was an Indian actor, comedian, playback singer and screenwriter in the early stages of the Tamil film industry – in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Nakshatra
Nakshatra (translit) is the term for lunar mansion in Hindu astrology.
Nambiyandar Nambi
Thirunaraiyur Nambiyandar Nambi was an eleventh-century Shaiva scholar of Tamil Nadu in South India who compiled the hymns of Sambandar, Appar and Sundarar and was himself one of the authors of the eleventh volume of the canon of the Tamil liturgical poetry of Shiva, the Tirumurai.
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Nandanar (1942 film)
Nandanar (தமிழ்: நந்தனார்) is 1942 Indian devotional film, based on the Nandan, a low-caste farmhand, and his deep devotion to Lord Nataraja of Chithambaram.
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Nandanar (disambiguation)
Nandanar was a Nayanar saint in the Hindu sect of Shaivism.
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Nandi (Hinduism)
Nandi (नन्दि), also known as Nandikeshvara or Nandideva, is the bull vahana (mount) of the Hindu god Shiva.
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Nataraja
Nataraja (Naṭarājar), also known as Adalvallan, is a depiction of Shiva, one of the main deities in Hinduism, as the divine cosmic dancer.
Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram
Thillai Nataraja Temple, also referred as the Chidambaram Nataraja Temple, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Nataraja, the form of Shiva as the lord of dance.
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Nayanars
The Nayanars (or Nayanmars; lit, and later 'teachers of Shiva) were a group of 63 Tamil Hindu saints living during the 6th to 8th centuries CE who were devoted to the Hindu god Shiva.
Nonviolent resistance
Nonviolent resistance, or nonviolent action, sometimes called civil resistance, is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, constructive program, or other methods, while refraining from violence and the threat of violence.
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P. K. Raja Sandow
Raja Sandow (born P. K. Nagalingam) was an Indian actor, film director and producer.
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Parai
Parai also known as Thappattai or Thappu is a traditional percussion instrument from South India.
Paraiyar
Paraiyar, Parayar or Maraiyar (formerly anglicised as Pariah and Paree) is a caste group found in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala and in Sri Lanka.
Parikrama
Parikrama or Pradakshina is clockwise circumambulation of sacred entities, and the path along which this is performed, as practiced in the Indic religions – Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism.
Periya Puranam
The Periya Purāṇam (Tamil: பெரிய புராணம்), that is, the great purana or epic, sometimes called Tiruttontarpuranam ("Tiru-Thondar-Puranam", the Purana of the Holy Devotees), is a Tamil poetic account depicting the lives of the sixty-three Nayanars, the canonical poets of Tamil Shaivism.
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Periyar
Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy (17 September 1879 – 24 December 1973), revered by his followers as Periyar or Thanthai Periyar, was an Indian social activist and politician who started the Self-Respect Movement and Dravidar Kazhagam.
Pudhumaipithan
C.
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Pulayar
The Pulayar (also Pulaya, Pulayas, Cherumar, Cheramar, and Cheraman) is a caste group mostly found in modern-day Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka and historically in Tamil Nadu.
Ramanuja
Ramanuja (Middle Tamil: Rāmāṉujam; Classical Sanskrit: Rāmānuja; 1077 – 1157), also known as Ramanujacharya, was an Indian Hindu philosopher, guru and a social reformer.
Rohini (goddess)
Rohini (रोहिणी) is a goddess in Hinduism and the favorite consort of Chandra, the moon god.
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S. Balachander
Sundaram Balachander (18 January 1927 – 13 April 1990) was an Indian veena player and filmmaker. Nandanar and S. Balachander are people from Thanjavur district.
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Sacred waters
Sacred waters are sacred natural sites characterized by tangible topographical land formations such as rivers, lakes, springs, reservoirs, and oceans, as opposed to holy water which is water elevated with the sacramental blessing of a cleric.
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Sanctum sanctorum
The Latin phrase sanctum sanctorum is a translation of the Hebrew term קֹדֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁים (Qṓḏeš HaQŏḏāšîm), literally meaning Holy of Holies, which generally refers in Latin texts to the holiest place of the Ancient Israelites, inside the Tabernacle and later inside the Temple in Jerusalem, but the term also has some derivative use in application to imitations of the Tabernacle in church architecture.
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Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Satyagraha
Satyāgraha (सत्याग्रह; satya: "truth", āgraha: "insistence" or "holding firmly to"), or "holding firmly to truth", or "truth force", is a particular form of nonviolent resistance or civil resistance.
Sekkilhar
Sēkkilān Mādēvadigal Rāmadēva (12th century CE), known popularly by his family name as Sekkizhar, was a saint and a contemporary of Kulottunga Chola II.
Self-Respect Movement
The Self-Respect Movement is a popular human rights movement originating in South India aimed at achieving social equality for those oppressed by the Indian caste system, advocating for lower castes to develop self-respect.
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Shaivism
Shaivism (translit-std) is one of the major Hindu traditions, which worships Shiva as the Supreme Being.
Shiva
Shiva (lit), also known as Mahadeva (Category:Trimurti Category:Wisdom gods Category:Time and fate gods Category:Indian yogis.
Sivalokanathar Temple, Tirupunkur
Sivalokanathar Temple (சிவலோகநாதர் கோயில்):ta:திருப்புன்கூர் சிவலோகநாதர் கோயில் is a Hindu temple in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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Sundarar
Sundarar, also referred to as Chuntarar, Chuntaramurtti, Nampi Aruran or Tampiran Tolan, was an eighth-century poet-saint of Tamil Shaiva Siddhanta tradition of Hinduism. Nandanar and Sundarar are Nayanars.
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda (IAST: Svāmī Vivekānanda; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna.
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Tamil calendar
The Tamil calendar (தமிழ் நாட்காட்டி) is a sidereal solar calendar used by the Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent.
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Tamil cinema
Tamil cinema is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Tamil language, the main spoken language in the state of Tamil Nadu.
Tamil language
Tamil (தமிழ்) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia.
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Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (TN) is the southernmost state of India.
Tamils
The Tamils, also known as the Tamilar, are a Dravidian ethnolinguistic group who natively speak the Tamil language and trace their ancestry mainly to India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, to the union territory of Puducherry, and to Sri Lanka.
The Hindu
The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Tirtha (Hinduism)
Tirtha (तीर्थ) is a Sanskrit word that means "crossing place, ford", and refers to any place, text or person that is holy.
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Tyagaraja
Sadguru Tyagaraja Swami (Telugu: సద్గురు త్యాగరాజ స్వామి) (4 May 1767 – 6 January 1847), also known as Tyagayya, and in full as Kakarla Tyagabrahmam, was a saint composer and of Carnatic music, a form of Indian classical music.
Upanayana
Upanayana (lit) is a Hindu educational sacrament, one of the traditional saṃskāras or rites of passage that marked the acceptance of a student by a preceptor, such as a guru or acharya, and an individual's initiation into a school in Hinduism.
Vahana
Vahana (translit) or vahanam denotes the being, typically an animal or mythical entity, a particular Hindu deity is said to use as a vehicle.
Vedas
The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India.
Vibhuti
In Hinduism, vibhuti (vibhūti), also called bhasma or tirunīru, is sacred ash made of burnt dried wood, burnt cow dung and/or cremated bodies used in Agamic rituals.
Villu Paatu
Villu Paatu (English: Bow Song, Tamil: வில்லுப்பாட்டு), also known as Villadichampaatu, is an ancient form of musical story-telling method performed in Southern India, where narration is interspersed with music, an art of southern states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, as well as North-East Sri Lanka.
Yajna
Yajna (also pronounced as Yag) (lit) in Hinduism refers to any ritual done in front of a sacred fire, often with mantras.
See also
Dalit Hindu saints
- Arunagirinathar
- Avvaiyar (Sangam poet)
- Chokhamela
- Dalit saints of Hinduism
- Ghasidas
- Nandanar
- Ravidas
- Sant Nirmala
- Sant Soyarabai
- Thiruvalluvar
- Tiruppan Alvar
- Valmiki
- Vitthal Ramji Shinde
Dalit saints
- Chokhamela
- Dalit saints of Hinduism
- Ghasidas
- Nandanar
- Ravidas
- Sant Nirmala
- Sant Soyarabai
- Tiruppan Alvar
- Valmiki
- Vitthal Ramji Shinde
Paraiyar leaders
- Iyothee Thass
- Nandanar
- Rettamalai Srinivasan
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandanar
Also known as Nandanaar.
, Pudhumaipithan, Pulayar, Ramanuja, Rohini (goddess), S. Balachander, Sacred waters, Sanctum sanctorum, Sanskrit, Satyagraha, Sekkilhar, Self-Respect Movement, Shaivism, Shiva, Sivalokanathar Temple, Tirupunkur, Sundarar, Swami Vivekananda, Tamil calendar, Tamil cinema, Tamil language, Tamil Nadu, Tamils, The Hindu, Tirtha (Hinduism), Tyagaraja, Upanayana, Vahana, Vedas, Vibhuti, Villu Paatu, Yajna.