Sekkizhar compiled and wrote the Periya Puranam listing the life stories of the sixty - three Shaiva Nayanars , poets of the God Shiva who composed the liturgical poems of the Tirumurai .
Was later himself canonised and the work became part of the sacred canon .
Sekkizhar compiled and wrote the Periya Puranam listing the life stories of the sixty - three Shaiva Nayanars , poets of the God Shiva who composed the liturgical poems of the Tirumurai , and was later himself canonised and the work became part of the sacred canon .