{"id":8694,"date":"2019-12-24T14:12:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T08:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poojabell.com\/?p=8694"},"modified":"2019-12-24T14:12:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T08:42:58","slug":"munaiyaduvar-nayanar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.madrodigital.com\/poojabellnew\/2019\/12\/24\/munaiyaduvar-nayanar\/","title":{"rendered":"MUNAIYADUVAR NAYANAR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>INTRODUCTION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Munaiyaduvar<\/strong> was a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nayanars\">Nayanar<\/a>\u00a0saint and a great devotee of Lord Shiva. \u00a0Munaiyaduvar is described as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercenary_soldier\">soldier<\/a>, who would fight for the weak and non-courageous kings and use the wealth received from them in service of Lord\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shiva\">Shiva<\/a>\u00a0and his devotees. Munaiyaduvar also used his earnings for renovating the ancient temples and conducted regular pujas at the shiva temples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LIFE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Munaiyaduvar was born in Needur in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nagapattinam_district\">Nagapattinam district<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tamil_Nadu\">Tamil Nadu<\/a>. He belongs to vellalar caste. He was a great soldier and was skilled in handling all kinds of weapons during the battle. After living a peaceful and a glorious life by doing the service of Lord Shiva,after his death he attained\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kailash\">Kailash<\/a>, Lord Shiva&#8217;s Holy abode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swami_Sivananda\">Swami Sivananda<\/a>\u00a0praises the Nayanar towards his righteousness in advocating his duties and he also praises his great shiva bhakti. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sundarar\">Sundarar<\/a>\u00a0praises Munaiyaduvar in the\u00a0sacred text \u201cTiruthondaThogai\u201d and informs us that he is a great shiva devotee and served properly to Lord Shiva and to his devotees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Munaiyaduvar\nis worshipped in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tamil_month\">Tamil month<\/a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phalguna\">Panguni<\/a> in the shiva temples. He also is worshipped as one among the nayanars in the shiva temples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Munaiyaduvar is specially worshiped in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Needur_Somanathaswami_Temple\">Somanathaswami temple<\/a>\u00a0at Needur. Lord Shiva had given his appearance to him in this temple. A shrine is dedicated to him in the temple. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us worship the great nayanar saint and be\nblessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cOM SREE MUNAIYADUVAR\nNAYANARE NAMAHA\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cOM NAMAH SHIVAYA\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cOM SAKTHI PARASAKTHI\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WRITTEN BY R. 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