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		"I am servitor of the servitors of Satthi
		Of heroic anklet, the Prince of Varinjaiyoor."
		
						- The Tiru-th-Tonda-th-Tokai.

1. 	Varinjaiyoor is in the Cauvery realm of the Cholas
	Who by the puissance of their sole sceptre, erected
	Columns of victory in all the eight directions and reigned;
	In this city from the stalks of lotuses weeded out
	By farmers, honey streamed forth and filled the tanks.		(4039)

2. 	In the truthful clan of Velaalas of Varanjaiyoor
	He came to be born to invest it with greater glory;
	He was a servitor unto the ankleted and redemptive
	Feet of the Lord who could not be comprehended
	By Brahma and other Devas.					(4040)

3. 	He was endowed with the valiancy to pull out
	The tongue of him who, in this world, slandered the servitors
	Of the Heavenly Father, and slice it away;
	He was called Satthiyaar.					(4041)



4. 	He would forcibly pull out with tongs the tongues
	Of blasphemous sinners and cut them away
	With sharp knives; thus he  flourished loftily
	In the way of loving servitorship.				(4042)

5. 	Poised in such manly and divine servitorship
	He served, in love his cause for many many days
	In this ever-during world; thus, even thus,
	He performed the redemptive servitorship
	For the river-crested Lord.					(4043)

6. 	He, the heroic and divine serviteur, performed
	This true service, freed from doubt; thus he reached
	The holy shade cast by the feet of the Lord of the Ambalam
	Who dances for the deliverance of the world.			(4044)

7. 	Bowing at the feet of Satthiyaar who would slice away
	To tongues of those that did not speak well
	Of the Lord’s servitors, we would now describe the glory
	Of Aiyatikal, the holy Kaatavar of great tapas.			(4045)

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NOTES

Verse No.

   1.	Varinjiyoor: Keezh-Velur (Kivaloor) is a famous town.  South-east of this place 
	is a village called Puducchery.  Varanjiyoor is to be reached from Puducchery. 
	In the temple, the idol of Satthi Naayanaar is installed.

 3-4.	According to Tondar Adippodi Aazhwar, blasphemy is punishable with death. 
	(Thalaiyai aangke aruppathe karumam kandaai Arangkamaanakarulaane.)


			Here ends the Puranam of Satthi Naayanaar

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