Tirumurai

…tered hymns, and the collection they assembled became the core of the Tirumurai , the canon of Tamil Shaiva scripture, set beside the Sanskrit Veda as the Tamil Veda.

The Tamil devotional hymns, the Tirumurai of the saints, do not at their composition claim to belong to this scriptural canon.

…, which forms the tenth volume of the Tamil Shaiva canon known as the Tirumurai .

It is the tenth book of the Tirumurai - the twelve-volume canonical scripture of Tamil Shaiva Siddhanta, the equivalent in Tamil of what the four Vedas are in Sanskrit.

…th-century-CE Tamil Shaiva Siddhanta classic, the tenth volume of the Tirumurai , with the Navakkari Chakra walked operationally in Tantra Four (verses 1319-1418).

The Tirumurai - the twelve-volume Tamil Shaiva canon in which Thirumoolar’s Tirumantiram sits as the tenth volume - had been compiled in the previous century under Chola patronage by Nambiyandar Nambi.

It is part of the Tirumurai — the twelve-book Tamil Shaiva canonical anthology compiled in the 12th century by Nambiyandar Nambi and Sekkizhar .