👉Sambandar of the 12th century belongs to the Chola dynasty.
👉He was a contemporary of Appar, another Saiva poet-saint.
👉He is one of the Muvar, the three principal saints of South India.
👉He composed an oeuvre of 16,000 hymns in complex meters.
👉Sambandar was one of the nayanmars, a group of sixty-three saints active in South India from the sixth to the ninth century who were instrumental in popularizing the worship of Shiva through devotional poetry and song.
