1) Hindu saint 
The Nayanars, or Nayanmars (Tamil: நாயன்மார்கள்), were devotional Saint-Poets of Shiva in Tamil Nadu. This branch of Eastern-World poets were active between 600 C.E. and 1100 C.E. The Tamil Śhaiva hagiography, Periya Puranam, was a volume of the Tirumurai that was written during the 13th century C.E. that narrates the hist...
Shaivite poet-saints of Southern India who flourished in South India between about 700 and 1000 CE.