Realizing his condition and also the meritorious deeds of his earlier lives, and elderly pious person appeared before Arunagiri and advised him to do penance and contemplate on the six-faced Lord Shanmukha. He was finally over-powered by poverty and many diseases took heavy toll of him, and he felt ashamed over his own plight. Utilizing his talents of composing extempore songs, he earned wealth only to please his paramours. He had the skill and capacity to compose poems and he was a devotee of Lord Murugan.Īs fate would have it, Arunagiri fell a victim to the evil traits of courtesans and lost all his property in debauchery. According to his research based on internal evidences of the Thiruppugal and other works of Arunagirinathar, the life of the saint, in his above work, is thus:Īpart from the fact that Arunagiri lived in Thiruvannamalai during the time of Pravuda Deva Maharaja, who ruled that territory in 1450 A.D., (already mentioned in "historical account"), no internal evidences are available as to say anything definite about Arunagiri's caste, his parents, and his early life.Īrunagiri was acquainted, even from his boyhood, with the earlier Tamil works, such as the Thevaara, Thirumanthiram, Thirumurugaatruppadai, Thirukkural, etc.
Has done a tremendous work, a novel and original thought of his, in codifying the "Murugavel Panniru Thirumurai" corresponding to the "Saiva Panniru Thirumurai," for which we are indebted to him. Chengalvaraya Pillai's Tamil work, "Arunagirinathar: Varalaarum Noolaaraychiyum (Arunagirinathar: Life and research on his works)," published in the year 1947.
The internal evidence account of Saint Arunagirinathar's life is based on Rao Bahadur V.S.