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Siva Prakasa was born in Kanchipuram in Thondaimandalam in Tamil Nadu, South India into an Orthodox veershaiva Tamil family around the middle of the 17th Century. His father Kumara Swamy Desikar was a respected spiritual leader, being the archaka and Dikshithar for the People of Thondaimandalam. Kumara Swamy Desikar left his family and went to ...
Sundara Ramaswamy (30 May 1931 – 15 October 2005) [1] was an Indian novelist, poet, translator, and literary critic, widely considered to be a preeminent figure in post-Independence Tamil literature. [2]
Not much is known about Devaraya Swamigal. He was born in 1857 in an affluent family in Vallur in the then region of Tondaimandalam. His father Shree Veeraswami Pillai served as Dubash of Mysore under the British rule, owning properties in Bangalore. Devarayan began his career as an accountant. [1]
He born in a Tamil vellalar family. Sekkilhar was a child of precious genius and having noticed this, king Anapaya, that is Kulothunga Chola II appointed him as his Prime Minister on account of his talents. [9] His life is celebrated by Umapati Sivacharya in his fourteenth century work (1313 CE) called Sekkilhar Nayanar Puranam. [10]
Thiruvarutprakasa Vallalār Chidambaram Ramalingam (5 October 1823 – 30 January 1874), also known as Vallalār, Ramalinga Swamigal and Ramalinga Adigal, was one of the known Tamil Hindu saint and a notable Tamil poet of the 19th century. He belongs to a line of Tamil saints known as "gnana siddhars" (gnana means 'higher wisdom'). [1]
Thevars, traditionally practise a Tamil martial art variously known as Adimurai, chinna adi and varna ati. In recent years, since 1958, these have been referred to as Southern-style Kalaripayattu , although they are distinct from the ancient martial art of Kalaripayattu itself that was historically the style found in Kerala . [ 14 ]
Sundaresa Desikar was born to Velaiyar and Meenatchi Ammal in a village called Mailam [1] near by Tindivanam in Tamil Nadu, South India into an orthodox Saiva Tamil Desikar family around the middle of the 18th century. Sundaresa Desikar's father Velaiyar was a respectable spiritual leader and a great Tamil poet.
பரமசிவன்; 1950 – 24 December 2020 [1]), often known as Tho Pa, was an Indian Tamil anthropologist, writer, folklorist, archeologist and professor. He was the first graduate in his family. He grew up to serve as a professor of Tamil at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, simultaneously pursuing a writer’s career.