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sambandar -lrb- also called thirugyana sambandar , tirugnana sambanthar , campantar , champantar , jnanasambandar , gnanasambandar -rrb- was a young saiva poet-saint of tamil nadu who lived around the 7th century ce .
he is one of the most prominent of the sixty-three nayanars , tamil saiva bhakti saints who lived between the sixth and the tenth centuries ce .
sambandar 's hymns to shiva were later collected to form the first three volumes of the `` tirumurai '' , the religious canon of tamil saiva siddhanta .
he was a contemporary of appar , another saiva saint .
