# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sambandar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:24:51.443Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sambandar"
name: "Sambandar"
slug: "sambandar"
description: "Sambandar, also referred to as Thirugnana Sambandar, was a Shaiva poet-saint of Tamil Nadu who lived sometime in the 7th century CE. According to the Tamil Shaiva tradition, he composed an oeuvre of 16,000 hymns in complex meters, of which 383 (384) hymns with 4,181 stanzas have survived. These narrate an intense loving devotion (bhakti) to the Hindu god Shiva. Sambandar merged with the divine effulgence when he was sixteen years of age. The surviving compositions of the poet-saint are preserved in the first three volumes of the Tirumurai called Thirukkadik kaappu, and provide a part of the philosophical foundation of Shaiva Siddhanta."
tagline: "One of the 63 Nayanars, Thevaram muvars, 4 Saiva samayakkuravars"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/'The_Shivaite_poet-saint_Sambandar'%2C_1200-1400%2C_India%2C_Tamil_Nadu_state%2C_bronze%2C_Asian_Art_Museum_of_San_Francisco.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "644"
deathDate: "660"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.67
  momentum:             0.8673469387755102
  historical:           6.469012
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "సంబందర్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "সম্বন্দর"
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    title: "Sambandar"
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    title: "संबंध स्वामी"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "തിരുജ്ഞാനസംബന്ധർ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Campantar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%9E%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%82%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF_%E0%AE%A8%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "திருஞானசம்பந்தமூர்த்தி நாயனார்"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump