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    Difference Between Nayanars and Alvars

    The Nayanars and Alvars were the Tamil poet-saints who played a key role in propagating the
    Bhakti Movement in Southern India during the 5th-10th Centuries.

    The Nayanars were a group of 63 saints devoted to Lord Shiva who lived during the 6th to 8th
    centuries CE.

    The Alwars were Tamil poet-saints of South India who espoused devotion to the Lord Vishnu or
    his avatar Lord Krishna in their songs of longing, and service.

    This article will further highlight the difference between the Nayanars and Alwars for the IAS
    Exam

    The differences between Naynars and Alvars are given in the table below:
    Differences between Nayanars and Alvars

    Nayanars Alvars

    Nayanars were devoted to Lord Alvars were devoted to Lord


    Shiva and his avatars Vishnu and his avatars

    Nayanars were active around the Although modern scholars


    6th-8th Centuries AD consider the Alvars to be active
    between the 5th and 10th
    Century AD, they are believed to
    have lived between 4200 BCE -
    2700 BCE

    The high priest of Raja Raja Chola The hymns of the Alvars were
    I, Nambiyandar Nambi, compiled made into a consolidated volume
    the hymns into a series of volumes known as ​Divya Prabandha.
    called the ​Tirumurai.

    The Nayanars were from various The Bhakti literature that sprang
    backgrounds, including Brahmins, from Alvars had contributed to the
    Harijan, and nobles. Along with the establishment and sustenance of
    twelve Vaishnava Alvars, they are a culture that broke away from
    regarded as the important Hindu the ritual-oriented Vedic religion
    saints from South India. and rooted itself in devotion as
    the only path for salvation

    ● Tiru Neelakanta ● Sri Andal


    ● Meiporul ● Thirumazhisai Alvar
    ● Viralminda ● Thiruppaan Alvar
    ● Amaraneedi ● Nammalwar
    ● Eripatha ● Kulasekara Alwar
    ● Yenathinathar

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