The Colas c34.28
The Cōḷas c34.28
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c34.28
To turn now to the purely religious literature of the age. The Tamil Śaiva canon owes its present arrangement to Nambi Āṇḍār Nambi who may certainly be assigned to the early eleventh century, if not to the close of the tenth. As has been stated already, Umāpati Śivācārya describes in a short work, *Tirumuṛai-kaṇḍa-purāṇam*, the redaction of the Śaiva canon by Nambi Āṇḍār Nambi. He states that Nambi, in the first instance arranged the canon in the form of ten books: