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		"I am a servitor of the servitors of Appalum Ati-ch-Chaarnthaar"
	
							- The Tiru-th-Tonda-th-Tokai.

1. 	Those devotees that dwell beyond the realms of the three
	Tamil monarchs and who are blessed with at-one-ment
	With the feet of the First One, and those serviteurs
	That flourished before the advent of the holy
	Tiru-th-Tonda-th-Tokai inseparable from the lips
	Of Nampi Aaroorar and those that would flourish after
	Its advent, for ever linked to the feet of the Lord
	Whose flag sports the Bull and in whose flower-bedecked
	And long matted hair adampu, tumpai, Ganga and Konrai
	Flourish, are indeed hailed as Appaalum Ati-ch-Chaarnthaar.”		(4169)



2. 	When he was on his way to the opulent Tirumurukanpoondi
	Of the Lord who with His bow of Mount Meru
	Burnt the triple hostile cities, all the heaps of riches
	Wrenched from (his retinue) by the encircling bowmen,
	Were borne by the pre-eminent Bhootha Ganas of the Lord
	Who is concorporate with Uma of ever-tender breasts;
	Such was his boundless beatitude; so, I, the humble servitor
	Should have truly wrought great tapas in my previous births
	To hail his aukleted feet divine.					(4170)

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NOTES

Verse No.

	Servitors of Siva are ubiquitous.  There was no time when these were not.  In one 
	sense Prof. Shulman, Prof. Yocum, Ms. Koppedrayer and the like come under this 
	category.  May their tribe increase.

	Place or time cannot constrict them.  They flourish for ever.  It is these who really, 
	actually and factually sustain Saivism.  Their number is legion.


			Here ends the Puranam of Appaalum Ati-ch-Chaarnthaar

Sincere thanks to Sri. T N Ramachandran of thanjavur, for permitting his English rendering of the holy text periyapurANam be published here.

See Also:
1. appAlum adichchArndhAr nAyanAr purANam in English prose
2. அப்பாலும் அடிச்சார்ந்தார் நாயனார் புராணம் (தமிழ் மூலம்)
3. thiruththoNDar purANam main page
4. 12 shaivite thirumuRais