11th Peedam: Introduction

(பன்னிரெண்டாவது பதினெண் சித்தர் பீடாதிபதி அவர்களின் எழுத்துக்குவியல்களில் இருந்து...)

His Holiness 11^th Pathinenn Siddhar Peedaathipathi, Gurumaga Sannidhaanam Siddhar Kaaviriyaatrangarai Karuwooraar.

He is the father of the later Chola Dynasty (785 AD to 1279 AD) and the founder of the Big Temple of Thanjavur. He lived more than 256 years (785 AD to 1050 AD). He made a collection of ancient books which were rarely available and they numbered upto 1877; but at present only a thousand and odd are available. He himself wrote more than three hundred books. He made a monumental work, as his predecessors wrote,

“THE GURU PAARAMPARIYAM”

(A religious history of the world and a complete history of the Siddhars),

“THE ARASA PAARAMBARIYA”

(a political history of this world and a complete history of the royals of the Tamils who are the aboriginates of India), and

“THE ILAKKIYA PAARAMPARIYAM”

(a complete history of the Indian languages, a chronological study of the History of the Tamil Literatures and linguistical study of the human languages).

By his writings and His life history, it is clear that He was an oracious reader, a veteran scholar, a powerful writer, a great orator, an eminent educationalist, a philosopher, a historian, an able administrator, a doctor of Siddha Medicines, a rationalistic thinker, a social reformer, a radical politician, a versatile genius, a great master of Esoteric doctrines and occult sciences, a great sculptor and a great artisan of metals and clay, a creative architect, a lover of good artistic collection, an apostle of the Divine Tamil language, non-vegetarianism in the Indu religion, the redeemer of the Tamilian race, the Dravidan family, of the Indian sub-continent and the people of this world. As a whole, His Holiness lived and professed in divinising and liberating the mankind. He preached and taught as a saviour.

THE PROLOGUE TO THE PREACHER AND TEACHER, HIS HOLINESS SIDDHAR KARUWOORAAR THE PATHINENN SIDDHAR PEEDAM – XI.

          Before he started his career as redeemer and liberator of the Tamil’s Race, Language & Literature and Religion, His Holiness SIDDHAR KARUWOORAAR studied the past history and literature thoroughly. Then only he took steps and decisions to achieve his ideas through the means of political revolutions and socio-religious renaissances. For that he observed the situations that prevailed at that time in the social and political circles and analysed the general tendencies and other factors that were predominant. Then he himself selected the persons who could conceive a suitable person fit to be the beginner of a new Royal dynasty and created the Royal family. This is now known as Later Chola Royal Family which belonged to Surya Kulam according to Tamil Heritage.

He selected a place near Thirivaiyaaru and named it as Thanjavur. At this new place he planned the capital city Thanjavur protected by seven forts and seven Moats around it. He erected the “Sathi Linga” temple having a very unique temple architecture based on his latest research in temple science. The presiding deities in the temple were named as Periya Udaiyar and Periya Nayagi. He made this temple a spring having spontaneous flow of Divine Atoms to supply Divine Powers to all the temples on this hemisphere, irrespective of religion, nation and language. He had such a global, magnanimous plan because He was for the immortal philosophy of the Pathinenn Siddhars’ Siddharism which preaches and teaches the very high ideals like “Liberation of Races, Languages & Literatues and Religions”, “The Universal Equality, Brotherhood, Socialistic and Communistic Society”, “The International Unity and Uniformity”.

He succeeded in his attempts in founding the capital city Thanjavur and the Big Temple of Thanjavur; the big city to fulfill his notions and aims of politics, the Big Temple to fulfill His policies, principles, philosophy, theology, religiouss ideas, redeeming services and renaissance movements. Thus he worked towards achieving his goals using the citty and the temple as his two arms. These two stand there even today after a thousand years as a proof of his lifetime achievements and failures. That is why by giving a lightning like historical and divinical explanations to the above two in this book an attempt to make the present society to think about His Holiness is envisaged. It is strongly felt that by speaking about the Thanjavur and its Big temple alone one can throw light upon the greatness and immortalities of the Tamils’ history hitherto kept in darkness.

(Next article: Karuwoor Thevar and Thirumaalikai Thevar)

(அடுத்த பதிவு: கருவூர்த் தேவர் மற்றும் திருமாளிகைத் தேவர் பற்றியது)