# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/appar-tirunavukkarasar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:32:46.982Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/appar-tirunavukkarasar"
name: "Appar Tirunavukkarasar"
slug: "appar-tirunavukkarasar"
description: "Appar, also referred to as Tirunavukkaracar or Navukkarasar, was a seventh-century Tamil Shaiva poet-saint. Born in a peasant Shaiva family, raised as an orphan by his sister, he lived about 80 years and is generally placed sometime between 570 and 650 CE. Appar composed 4,900 devotional hymns to the god Shiva, out of which 313 have survived and are now canonized as the 4th to 6th volumes of Tirumurai. One of the most prominent of the sixty-three revered Nayanars, he was an older contemporary of Sambandar."
tagline: "One of 3 Thevaram muvars / 4 Saiva samayakkuravars / 63 Nayanars"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Thirunavukkarasar_Drawing_%28Transparent_BG%29.png/330px-Thirunavukkarasar_Drawing_%28Transparent_BG%29.png"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump