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Sacred Ash is of three kinds - Kalpam, Anukalpum  and Upakalpam. The Saints, who besmear any kind of Ash named above, are called Muzhu Neeru Pusiya Munivar. In front of the Lord at the Sanctum Sanctorum, in the presence of the preceptor, before the sacrificial fire, in the public street, at unhygenic or unholy places, one should not besmear Ashes. Adhering to these principles, one should besmear Ashes in Thripundara way in three horizantal line; on the forehead), or like the crescent, or like the lamp or as a circle in the forehead. Such devotees who besmear throughout the body are known by Muzhu Neeru Pusiya Munivar.

Those who have reached the Feet of Lord Siva outside the Tamil country of the Chera, Chola and Pandya suzerainty and those who graced the world before and after the days of Suntharar who sang impromptu the Thiruththondaththogai-are called Appalum Adichcharnthar.

In Thiruninravur there lived a Brahmin Saint called Pusalar. He desired to build a temple for Siva and he constructed it in his mind step by step. He arranged to consecrate the temple and make the Lord enter the temple on an auspicious day. That day happened to be the day when the