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08/06/22 21:36 PM IST

Tamil Nadu sculptures recovered from Australia, US

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  • Ten antiquities (sculptures) retrieved from Australia and the United States were handed over to the Government of Tamil Nadu in Delhi recently. 
Sambandar
  • Sambandar of the 12th century belongs to the Chola dynasty.
  • He was a contemporary of Appar, another Saiva poet-saint.
  • He is one of the Muvar, the three principal saints of South India.
  • He composed an oeuvre of 16,000 hymns in complex meters.
  • Sambandar was one of the nayanmars, a group of sixty-three saints active in South India from the sixth to the ninth century who were instrumental in popularizing the worship of Shiva through devotional poetry and song.
Source- Indian Express 

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