10 Facts About Tirumurai

Tirumurai's verses were set to tune by Nilakantaperumalanar who is set to have accompanied the poet on his yal or lute.

Tirumurai converted to Jainism as a youth, became the head of a Jain monastery over time, but then returned to Shaivism.

Tirumurai's hymns are highly devotional, with some containing criticism of Jainism as he experienced it.

Manikkavasagar's Tiruvasakam and Tirukovayar are compiled as the eighth Tirumurai and is full of visionary experience, divine love and urgent striving for truth.

Ninth Tirumurai has been composed by Tirumalikaittever, Sundarar, Karuvurttevar, Nambiyaandar Nambi, Gandaraditya, Venattatikal, Tiruvaliyamutanar, Purutottama Nambi and Cetirayar.

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Eleventh Tirumurai was composed by Karaikkal Ammaiyar, Cheraman Perumal, Pattinattu p-pillaiyar, Nakkiratevar, Kapilateva, Tiruvalavaiyudaiyar, Nampiyantarnampi, Iyyadigal katavarkon, Kalladateva, Paranateva, Ellamperuman Adigal and Athirava Adigal.

Sekkizhar compiled and wrote the Periya Puranam listing the life stories of the sixty-three Shaiva Nayanars, poets of the God Shiva who composed the liturgical poems of the Tirumurai, and was later himself canonised and the work became part of the sacred canon.

Tirumurai sought the help of Nambi Andar Nambi, who was a priest in a temple.

Tirumurai was one of the reasons for converting Vedic ritual to Agamic puja followed in Shiva temples.

Periya Puranam, the eleventh-century Tamil book on the Nayanars that forms the last volume of the Tirumurai, primarily had references only to Tevaram and subsequently expanded to 12 parts and is one of the first anthologies of Tirumurai.