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Thiruvilaiyadal puranam - The sacred sports of Siva

 

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Thiruvilaiyadal puranam in English

Sports No.

kANtam

Sports of God (thiruviLaiyAdal)

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Thiruvilaiyadal Puranam - Introduction

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Maduraik kANtam

The removal of the crime of indra

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The removal of the curse on the white elephant

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Discovery of the god to mortals

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Incarnation of minatchi, the goddess of the temple

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Marriage of minatchi with siva by the name of sundaresvara

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God's dance in the silver hall

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The insatiable dwarf kundotharan

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Ganga, at the command of the god, produced the river vaigai

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The god brought the seven seas together into one place

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Recalling malayadhwaja from the dead

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The incarnation of subramanyan in the form of ukkira-pandian

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The god sundaresvarar gets his son married and furnishes him with three weapons

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Varunan is compelled to retire by the casting of the spear

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Ukkira-pandian strikes off indran's crown

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Ukkira-pandian struck mount meru and thence obtained wealth

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The god explained the inner meaning of the vedas

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The god provided jewels for the crown

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Varuna sending the sea to try the god's power; The latter called four clouds to absorb the sea

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kUdal kANtam

Varuna sending much rain, the god protected the place by a covering of clouds

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Sundaresar condescended to assume the form of a religious ascetic

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The sittar gave sugarcane to the stone-elephant

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The god killed the elephant which was born from the fire Of a sacrifice made by the chamanals (or jains)

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The god on account of gauri, became an old man, a young man, and a child

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Natarajar the dancing god altered his attitude, In the silver temple, at the request of the king

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The god relieved an innocent person who feared the avenger of blood

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The removing of the great crime

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The god punished the guilty disciple, by killing him

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The destroying of the striped serpent sent by the chamanals (jains)

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The god's nandi conquers the cow sent by the chamanals

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The god came with a great army, on account Of savundra samuntan general of the pandian

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The god gave an exhaustless purse to the pandian

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The god came and sold bracelets to women of the merchant caste

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The god taught the eight great meditations

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The god opened north gate, and showed the Temple to the chera king, closing the gate afterwards With the bullock seal

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The god preserved the pandian's army by the Miraculous appearance of a booth for giving away water

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The performance of alchemy by the god

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On the chera king making war, both he and The pandian fell into the lotus tank, from which The pandian was rescued

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The god gave a stock of paddy to a vellalan

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The god, coming as the maternal uncle of a merchant, settled a dispute

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The cure of varaguna pandian, and showing him the world of siva

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The god sold wood, and overcame the minstrel, named yemanathen in song

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The god gave to his votary, pattiren, A mandate, addressed to the chera king, requiring money

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The god gave to the minstrel pattiren, a golden board to sit upon

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The god, in the guise of a musician, Decided a contest in singing between two female performers, In the presence of the king

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The god nourished certain motherless young pigs, And endowed them partially with the human form

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The god made the twelve pigs ministers of state to the pandian king

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The god gave instruction to the little black bird

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The god gave paradise to the heron, And ordained that the lotus tank should produce no Living creature

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thiruAlavAyk kANtam

The god showed the boundaries of the town after the place had been destroyed by a flood

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The god conquered the soren king, who came To make war against the pandian, which was done by arrows Having the name of sundaresvaren written on them

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The god gave a bench to the college of poets; And mingling with them contributed to the improvement of The tamil language

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The god gave to terami a purse of gold

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The god rescued nakkiran from the tank

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The god by means of agastyar taught narkiran purity of grammar

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When the bench of learned brahmins were disagreed concerning the merits of different books, the god, by means of A dumb child, settled the difference

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The pandian having treated idei-kaden with neglect, The god was pleased to remove and dwell at avada-mathurai

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The god came with a net as a fisherrman, And removed the sentence denounced on parvati

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The god gave instruction to a person belonging to vathavur

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The God Turned Jackals Into Horses On Behalf Of Manickavasagar

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The god turned the horses into jackals, And being displeased at the subsequent treatment of Manickavasagan, made the river vaigai overflow

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The god came to carry mud as a cooly, And the sacred body was struck with a cane

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Sambantar, cured kun pandian of his fever

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The impalement of the jains

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The god called a vanni tree, a lingam, and a well, From tirupurambiyam to bear witness to a marriage

See Also: 
1. Back to English page
2. Periya Puranam stories (in English with pictures)
3. chEkkizAr perumAn 

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