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........ SIDDHAS ---- SIDDHAS & SAIVA SIDHANTHA
Siddhas and Saiva Siddhanta
Siddhas have definitely played a role in the origin, evolution and development of Saiva
Siddhanta philosophy. The development and codification of Saiva Siddhanta and its codification
(12th-13th centuries) to Tirumarai has been an epoch in the history of Saiva branch of
Hinduism. In fact, the poems of Siddhas can be divided into three categories -
1. one meant for the highly religious and philosophical groups,
2. second for the elite and educated and
3. third for common people.
Thus, there has been difference in language, terminology, syntax, prosody, etc used by each
group. As pointed out by scholars, the Saiva Siddhanta profusely deal with simplified Vedic
concepts, such concepts symbolised into numbers or figures, such numbers and figure symbols
represented in temples in various forms, and associating them in rites, rituals and ceremonies.
Thus, the scholars themselves have created a great fuss about the interpretation of
Tirumandhiram and Tirumarais. Siddhanta marabhu (the tradition of Siddhanta), Siddhanta
marabhu kandanam (Rebuttal of the tradition of Siddhanta), Siddhanta marabhukandana
kandanam (Rebuttal of Rebuttal of tradition of Siddhanta) were the day of the order during
18th - 19th centuries among the Saivites and even the mutt heads had indulged in such
philosophical musings and theological polemics.
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