The story of saiva saints/14. ARIVATTAYA NAYANAR
14. ARIVATTAYA NAYANAR
In a place called Kanamangalam there livied a Saint called Thayanar. He was a Vellala by Caste. He used to offer rice (of superior Paddy of Yellowish hue), cooked comb greens and tender mango to the Lord daily. Day by day he became poor. He continued to offer them by the wages he got. As the wages he got was always 'Sennel' he offered all paddy to the Lord and remained starving. One day while he was proceeding to the temple with rice etc. owing to fatigue, he fell down. Everything that he carried fell in the cracks of the ground. The Saint thought that he should die for expiation of sin and while he was cutting his throat with a sickle, he heard the champing sound coming from the cracks along with the Lord's Hand obstructing his action. Then the Lord blessed the Saint.