Sekkizhar composes the Periya Puranam at the Chola court, telling the lives of the sixty-three Nayanar saints; the work closes the Tamil Shaiva canon and fixes its saints' stories in the form the temples still celebrate.
The Event
- Date
- c. 1150 (approximate)
- Era
- Classical; Standard periodization of Hindu history
- Location
- Chidambaram; today Tamil Nadu, India
- Traditions
- Hinduism
- Streams
- Shaivism
- Key figures
- Sekkizhar
- Key texts
- Periya Puranam
Primary Sources
- Sekkizhar, Periya Puranam
Secondary Sources
- Flood, An Introduction to Hinduism (Cambridge, 1996)
- Michaels, Hinduism: Past and Present (Princeton, 2004)
Provenance: HIST-0317; confidence 0.85; accessed 2026-10-27.
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