The first Thevara hymn in the compilation of the hymns of Appar, Sambandhar and Sundarar is “Thodudaiya Seviyan.” of Sambandhar.
Nambiandar Nambi compiled them as the Tirumurais, the Shaiva Anthology of Hymns. A Shaiva anthology The palm leaf manuscripts were thus retrieved. It was opened and a heap of palm leaf manuscripts were found in a mound attacked by white ants. The king organised a festival where the bronze figures of the poet saints were brought and requested that the door be opened. On reaching there, they found that the room was locked and that it could be opened only in the presence of the authors of the hymns. Pillaiyar revealed that the manuscripts were locked in a room in the Chidambaram temple.
When Chola emperor Rajarajan realised that most of the Thevara pathikams were lost, he approached Nambiandar Nambi, a young boy who had the blessings of Pollaappillaiyar of Tirunaaraiyoor to help find these manuscripts. These are acknowledged as one of the more sacrosanct and sacred scriptures of the Shaivaites. Devotional hymns of Shaiva saints Appar, Sambandhar and Sundarar of the medieval age, are the Thevarams sung in a combined stream of song and music.
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