dikshitar
dikshitarThe hereditary community of priests who alone perform the worship at the Chidambaram Nataraja temple in Tamil Nadu.
Where this term appears
- The Pancha Bhuta Sthalam: Five Element Temples Temples
The hereditary Dikshitar priests alone serve this temple, and the Cholas held its dancing Shiva as the deity of their dynasty.
- The Tamil Siddha Lineage Treatise
…al compositions in Tamil by figures like Papanasam Sivan , Muthuswami Dikshitar (whose Sanskrit Navavarana Kritis are technically in Sanskrit but whose compositional intent and operational use are within the Ta…