thiru muruga kirupanandha variyar popularly known and reverently called as variyar swamigal was born at kangeyanallur a small village on the bank of 'palar' river this village lies at a distance of km between vellore and katpadi in vellore district this province is referred to as thondai nadu in sangam literature the th august became auspicious day since it has the glory of being the birth date of our swamigal according to indian astrology it was saturday am sukla patcham sasti thithi swathi nakshatram subranama yogam gowlawa karanam thula rasi kadaga lagnam swamy's father siva thiru mallaya dasa bhagavathar was well known for his discourses on ancient purana ethics he was a great scholar his knowledge and wisdom in purana ethics and literature were unlimited hence he was conferred with the title puranethikasa paarangathar he established 'thirupugazh sabhas' in each and every place to propagate thirupugazh the songs which spell the glory of god muruga madhu shri kanagavalli ammaiyar mother of our swamigal was a noble highly discipline calm affectionate holy woman she was always align with the thoughts of her husband her kindness and helping tendency towards mankind particularly towards poor was endless the parents of our swamigal belongs to veera saiva dynasty primarily followers of lord siva got children the fourth child was our swamigal tab the almighty now and then exposes his greatness for the well being of mankind makes saints to born in this world in this chain of saints our swamigal known as deiva thiru muruga kirupanantha variyar swamigal came to this world at the beginning of th century life of swamigal spread over the devotional activities religious rites particularly swamigal made saint arunagirinathar's 'thiruppugazh' known to the entire world 'swamigal established thiruvarul dhavaneri manram' with his own cost and appointed preachers for propagating the religious and devotional rites and ideals swamigal set himself as a legend for self discipline above all his life made men to live as men naturally one may not be talented in all subjects one may possess high knowledge in one matter but least about other one may be a good orator but not at all a good author one may be good writer but not a good orator some may possess in depth knowledge in sangamliterature but do not possess any knowledge or interest in literature pertaining to religion even people who are well versed in religious literature may not do well in music but our swamigal had enormous and deep knowledge and practice of all these arts and literature in short he conquered devotion discipline extraordinary memory power kindness and vast knowledge of texts tab the grand mother of swamigal lived in kurnool there was a great saint known as 'gurubalam' who possessed many talents ashtama siddies out of his power he could turn camphor cubes into golden cubes one day that grand mother mother of swamigal's mother took her son in law mallayadasar swamigal's father to the said saint gurubalam to get a golden cube for the her son in law saint gurubalam knew this matter through his spritual thought he asked whether the golden cube which i give last forever further he told a child is conceived and being grown in the stomach of your daughter kanagavalli and by the child your entire home will be spread with golden cubes according to the saints words so born was our variyar swamigal our swamigal never stepped into any school but his father mallayadasar taught him education literature grammer music and instrumental music particularly veena swamigal started reading and learning texts at third year of his age swamigal was capable of authoring venbas a sort of tamil lyric at his eighth year of age at his th year he memorized ten thousand poems and authored texts like 'ashta naga bandham' 'mayil' 'vel' and 'sivalinga bandams' which were too hard and a challenge for even highly learned scholars according to the veera saiva customs swamigal wore sivalingam sivalinga tharanam at his fifth year in pana patrar mutt in thiruvannamalai swamigal received upadesam 'satakkara mantram' from his father and received upadesam 'sutchuma satakkara mantram' from thirupugazh swamigal palani easana sivachariya swamigal graced our swamigal 'nirvana dhiksha' and named him as 'vama deva sivam' dhikshanamam swamigal learnt 'veena' from bhramma sri then madam varadhachariyar in his early days swamigal had dharshan of 'srimath pamban swamigal' later once swamigal received sadakkara upadesam from pamban swamigal in dream bhramma sri loganatha iyyer known as madurai thirupugazh swamigal established thirupugazh saba at adi street