Sekkizhar

Sekkizhar

Sekkizhar is a revered poet of Tamil Shaiva Siddhanta. [http://www.hinduonnet.com/2002/06/04/stories/2002060400590800.htm] He compiled and wrote the "Periya Puranam", the life stories of the sixty-three Shaiva Nayanars, poets of the God Shiva) who composed the liturgical poems of the Tirumurai. Sekkizhar was a chief minister in the court of the Chola King Kulothunga Chola II .

The Sekkizhar Research Centre conducts research on his epic Periya Puranam and the period, art, culture, civilization, rituals, socioeconomic conditions, and religion/secularism of the times and place surrounding it.

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