History of Thirumanthiram

                   Thirumoolar's Thirumandhiram

        Thirumandhiram is the tenth thirumurai in the tamil shaiva sithantha panniru thirumurai. It deals more about Yoga. It is also called chathiram. It has more than 3000 verses.

This is tenth one in the Tamil Shaiva thirumurais. 

(1). Of all the thirumurais it deals extensively and explicitly with the philosophical aspects. Because of this it is called the shastra by the thirumurai followers. This was given to us as a boon by the great yogi saint thirumoolar.

(2). He transmigrated from his original body to the body of a cowherd man called moolan and composed these highly rich hymns. 

In these the saint has given the essence of the highly revered Shaiva tantra texts Agamas. Through his songs we get to know that there are 28 Agamas given by the God and he got through his guru 9 Agamas. 

The themes of these nine Agamas have been given as nine tantras.