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place in the canon whereas the poems of Nampiyāntar Nampi, the redactor of Saivite canon, are included in the Eleventh Tirumurai. Among the Vaisnavite canons, the First Book contains hymns on Lord Vissau only except one poem, Kanninunciruttämpu, which is on Nammalvar who is a human, an Alvar. The Second and Third Books consist of hymns exclusively on . the Lord. But to the Fourth Book which contained hymns on the Lord alone, a poem on Ramanuja, Ra manuca-nurrü untà li was added at the time of Rāmānuja. So this Book also contains a poem on a human, who is an Acarya. On the other hand, in first eight Tirumurais all the hymns are on the Lord Siva excepting in the Ninth Tirumurai which contains a decap. on the Lord Muruka the son of Siva, Centand r Hymns). The Eleventh Tirumurai is a collection of forty-one Pirapantams by twelve saints some of them being incomplete, on the Lord Vināyaka, Muruka and Siva. The total verses in this Book are 1388. In this collection there are six poems on Thirujäänecampantar, one poena on Thirunavukkaracar, two poems on Kannappanayana r, one poem on Céramān - perumāl and one poem on all agiya rs (devotees) put together. Some puranic stories occur both in the Wālāyiram and in the Tirumurais and they have been adapted by the saints of their respective faiths to their own advantage in extolling their God as the Supreme. being, as for instance, the story of Siva giving exposition to the quintessence of the Vedas to Canaka and others,” the destruction of Tiripura,” the story of the rescue of Märkkanpéya from the god of Death (yama),” and the story of churning the ocean and supplying the nector to the Dévas." Again it is seen that in the hymns of the Alvārs the story of Vănă cura has been pressed into service to raise Vişoiu as the Supreme Being,” the story of Daksha’s sacrifice has been done so in the hymns of Nayanmärs to raise Siva as the Supreme Cod." If there is the story of worshipping the feet of Visau by Siva' and also 373