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Scholars guess that Sivavakkayar lived perhaps in the 9th century. Some of his poetry makes use of relatively modern words borrowed from Sanskrit, meaning he can't be placed in earlier centuries, yet he is mentioned by the earliest of Pattinattar's poetry, so he must have lived before the 10th century.
Like many other Tamil Siddhas, he denounced orthodoxy, mindless ritualism, and the strict caste system, all the while being a genuinely realized mystic.
His Tamil poems are gathered together in a collection called simply the Patal (Songs).
Poems by Sivavakkiyar
- He is not Hari, He is not the Lord Siva
- In bricks and in granite
- Silence, unmoved and rising
- The slothful
- What are temples, tell me!
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Related Links
Sivavakkiyar - Poem Hunter
https://www.poemhunter.com/sivavakkiyar/biography/
Biography with a small selection of poems.
Sivavakkiyar
https://www.hinduscriptures.com/gurus/sivavakkiyar/35455/
Biography
Speaking of Shiva: Poems by Sivavakkiyar
https://sivavakkiyar.wordpress.com/
Several verses in Tamil with English translations
