Oh truth, oh purity, Oh Lord who rides on a bull, Oh God, who stood as letter вЂњ OmвЂќ, in my mind so that I would be saved, Truly I have attained salvation seeing your golden feet, Iyya yena vongi aazhndu agandra nunniyane (32-35) Meyye Un ponnadikal kandu indru veedu uthen, Stone, human beings, ghosts, different types of devils,ДЄnd I traveled all over this spectrum of moving and not moving things ,ДЄnd took all types of births and became tired. Several types of animals, birds, snakes , Oh lord by becoming grass, small plants, worms, trees , Yella pirappum piranthu ,ilaithen, yem perumaane.(26-31) Oh God who is beyond all limitations of barrier, I who am one with a bad karma ,ДЄnd do not know the ways to praise your great qualitiesД¬hellaaa nindra, ithathavara jangamathukkul , I came because the god with an eye in his forehead showed me his eye of mercy,ДЄnd stood there saluting the anklet, whose prettiness is beyond the reach of the mind ,ДЄnd oh God who filled the sky and the earth, and who is being seen as a glittering light , Pollaa vinayen pugazhum maru ondru ariyen.(21-25) Yenn iranthu yellai illathaane nin perum cheer , Vin nirainthum, man niranthum m ikkai vilakku oiliyaai , Yennutharkettaa vezhilaar kazhal irainji , Kan nuthalaan than karunai kan kaatta vandeythi, So that the entire Karma which I have earned earlier disappears. Praise to the God who gives the never fading joy like a mountain of mercy,Д«ecause that Lord Shiva stood in my thought ,ДЄnd with a joyful mind recite the Shiva Purana, Munthai vinai muzhuthum oya uraippan naan.(16-20) Sivan avan yen sinthayul ninra athanaal , Praise to the feet of god who is in holy Thiruperumthurai. Praise to the feet of the king who cuts off the illusion called birth, Praise to the feet of the pure god who stood in love , Praise to the feet of my friend, praise to the red feet of shiva, Praise to the feet of God, Praise to the feet of my father, Let the anklets of that great one who uplifts those who bend their head to him be victorious.Д¬heeraar perum thurai nama devan adi pothi(11-15) Let the anklets of king who happily lives in the mind of those who salute him be victorious, Let the flower like anklets of the God, who is scarce to those who stand away from him be victorious, Let the valorous anklets of Lord Shiva, who cuts off cycle of birth be victorious Let the feet of the God who stabilized my mind be victorious, Siram kuvivaar onguvikkum cheeron kazhal velga.(6-10) Karam kuvivaar ul magizhum kon kazhalgal velga, Puratharkkum cheyon than poomkazhalgal velga, Pirapparukkump injakan than pey kazhalgal velga,

Long live the feet of the God who was one but appeared as many. Long live the feet of him who became holy books and comes near us, Long live the feet of my Guru who ruled over Thiruvavaduthurai(Thiruperum thuraiВ ?)*, Long live the feet of him who does not move away from my mind even for a second. Long live Namasivaya, Long live the holy feet of our Lord, Kokazhi aanda guru mani than thaal vaazhga, Imai podum yennenjil neengaadhan thal vazhga. Namasivaya vaazhga, Nadan thal vazzhga , and the audio is Audio by Sulamangalam sisters is available in ) There is also a great commentary in Tamil Which includes the Tamil text of this work in This Shiva puranam attempts to portray the jeeva towards Shiva and is aptly called вЂњShiva PuranamвЂќ, The famous English translation of Shiva Puranam by Mr.G.U.Pope (fondly called Popeiyer) is available in G.U.PopeвЂ™s translation. According to the philosophy of Saivism, the jeeva is prevented from the realization of God by three impurities (Anava(pride), Karma, and Maya) and only approach to Shiva can remove these impurities. In tamil Jeeva (the individual soul is called вЂњ CheevaaвЂќ. Unlike suggested by the name it is not the epic dealing with the stories of Shiva. It was composed in a Shiva temple called Thiruperum thurai The first prayer in THiruvasagam is the Shiva Puranam.

Due to the sweetness and greatness of this work, there is a proverb in Tamil which says, вЂњThiruvasagathukku urugaar, yebbasagathukkum UrugaarвЂќ( One who does not melt for Thiruvasagam will not melt for any literary work). His collection of works is called Thiruvachakam. (Manikka Vasagar was one of the four great Nayanmars (saivite saints ) of Tamil Nadu, who was a great poet as well as great contributor to the SAivite philosophy.

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