K. Anandasuppaiyar

இந்தப் பக்கத்தை தமிழில் வாசிக்க: க. அனந்தசுப்பையர் ‎

K. Anandasuppaiyar was a Tamil scholar, Saiva scholar, and a poet of Eelam Sitrilakiyam (minor literary) world. Anandasuppaiyar's important works include Vannainagar Thaiyalnayaki Kalivenpa and Vannainagar Thaiyalnayaki Thiruvoodal collections.

Private Life

Anandasuppaiyar was born to Ganeshaiyer at Vannarpannai in the Jaffna town of Sri Lanka. Anandasuppaiyar's son was Adinarayanan.

Literary Life

Anandasuppaiyar was educated by the teacher Vaithilinga Chetty. Anandasuppaiyar's father Ganeshaiyar was a direct student of Vithuvasiromani Ponnambala Pillai. Ananthasubbaiyar also learned from him directly. Due to his devotion to the Thaiyalnayaki of Vannainagar, Anandasuppaiyar composed the poems as per Kalivenpa and Thiruvoonjal forms of Sitrrilakiyam keeping Thaiyalnayaki as the female protagonist.

Godess Sivakami's squeg on Lord Shiva is known as Thiruvudal. Anandasuppaiyar compiled and released the Thiruvudal recited on the Thiruvadhirai star day (Betelgeuse) of the Tamil month Margazhi at the Vaitheeswarar temple in Vannarpanai, Jaffna.

Anandasuppaiyar composed a nine hymns poem of Thaiyalnayaki Thiruvoonjal including the Kappu (Invocation of deities at the commencement of a poem to facilitate its successful completion). These Thiruvoonjal hymns were composed in Asiriyavirutham (a type of pa – metre: one of two categories of traditional Tamil poems). With musical eloquence, these Thiruvoonjals contain simple terms, philosophical concepts, events experienced by the human being in worldly life, in rituals and in deeds. Anandasuppaiyar had a student lineage. Anandasuppaiyar's grandson Shanmugarathna Iyer compiled some of Anandasuppaiyar's works and published them in 1911.

Student Lineage

• Adinarayanan
• A. Shanmugarathna Iyer

Literary Circle

• Senathirasa Mudaliar
• Karaitheevu Karthikeyapulavar
• Sitrrambalapulavar
• Nallur Chinnathambippulavar
• Kandapillai

List of Books

Kalivenpa

• Vannainagar Thaiyalnayaki Kalivenpa

Oonjal

• Vannainagar Thaiyalnayaki Thiruvoonjal
• Sri Muthukumaraswamy Thiruvoonjal

Others

• Thiruvudal Collection
• Thiruvonamalaipuranam - 1909
• Subhramaniyappravaham

References

• Dictionary of biography of the Tamils of Ceylon, 1997 (compiled by S. Arumugam)
• Eela Naatin Tamil Sudar Manigal - Thenpuloliyur Mu. Ganapathypillai
• Sitrrilakiya Poet Dictionary: N.V. Jeyaraman
• A collection of Sitrrilakiyam Poets of Eelam who lived between 17th and 20th century: Kanaga Sreedharan Australia|Yazhpanam history - Navalar Kottam A.Muthuthambipillai(1912) | Sittrilakiya Poet Dictionary: N.V. Jeyaraman | Hindu encyclopedia - Kalakeerthi P.Boologasingam(1990)

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