The father asked him who had fed him, whereupon the boy pointed to the sky and responded with a song “Thodudaya Seviyan” – the first verse of the thevaram, at the age of three! After finishing his bath, the father came to the child, and found a golden cup in his hands (the cup in which Parvathy gave him the milk) and milk overflowing from his mouth. Noticing this, Lord Shiva and his consort Parvathi appeared before him and Goddess Parvathi fed him. When his father went to take a dip in the temple tank, the child started crying in hunger. When Sambandar was about three years old, his father had taken him to a nearby Shiva temple. However, most of it have gone unrecorded. At the age of six, he began to express his spiritual dimension, singing praises of the lord. He was a bala yogi who lived in the seventh century. Sambandar, born in Sirkazhi to Shivapada Hrudayar and Bhagavathiar, is one of the four main nayanmars.
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