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Rh sight. At Thiruvenpakkam he was given a walking stick and at Kancheepuram he got back the sight in the left eye, Proceeding to Thiru Arur, he recovered the sight in the right eye. To pacify the wrath of Paravaiyar, Lord Siva himself acted as a mediator. Suntharar once got gold bars at Vriththachalam, threw them in the river and caused them to appear in the Kamalalaya tank at Thiru Arur.

His contemporaycontemporary [sic] Chera King was Cheraman Perumal much noted for charity and he once came to Thiru Arur to meet Suntharar. Both became friends and Suntharar reciprocated his friendship by visiting Thiruvanjaikkalam. While he was returning with the presents got from the Cheraman, he was robbed of all his valuables at Thirumurganpoondi and as he improvised a decad he got back everything.

While he was going to Thiruvanjaikkalam for the second time, he wrought at Avinashi the miracle of bringing back to life a brahmin boy devoured by a crocodile. Then from Thiruvan jaikkalam he departed for Mt. Kailas on a white elephant accompanied by the Cheraman on Swathi day in the month of Adi and continued to perform his duties as before in Kailas.

The Thillaivazh Anthanar or the Brahmins of Thillai (Chidambaram) are three thousand in number. They are blessed to be very near Sri Nataraja and conduct daily prayers. They perform daily puja with proper ceremonies and they consider it as their gift. They conduct themselves in the path of Bhakti and they do not even like final beatitude. Lord Nataraja himself blessed Suntharar with the clue "Thillaivazh Anthanartham Adiyarkkum Adiyen" to extemporise the Thiruththondaththogai and from this, one can conclude that they were selected by the Lord as the first in the list of