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Tirumūlar

Indian mystic

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contribution to bhakti poetry

In South Asian arts: Bhakti poetry
Tirumūlar was a mystic and reformer in the so-called Siddhānta (Perfected Man) school of Śaivism, which rejected caste and asceticism, and believed that the body is the true temple of Śiva. There were 12 early Nāyaṉār saints. Similar poets, in the tradition of devotion to…
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