7.1 CLASSIFYING THE ACTIONS OF NAYANMAARS:

 

 

Based on the actions whether it was self destructive,self injurious or harming others an hypothetical  model can be made. This model is no perfect but based an an act alone.  we do not know the  personality of the individual in detail. However the action has clear impairment of personal or social judgement. Hence we take them as study model.

 

NAYANMAARS  with narcissistic- self disorder :

 

Nayanmaar	Narcissistic action
MANAKKANJARAAR	Cutting away wives braid
KOTPULI	Killing close relatives
SERUTHUNAI	Slashing wives nose
IDANGAZHI	Allowing govt granary to be stolen
KAZHARTCHINGER	Cutting off wives hand
SAKTHI	Slashing the tongues for blasphemy
KALIKAMBAR	Cutting off wives hand
SIRUTHONDAR	Killing son
MOORKKAR	Killing the people in gamble
IYARPAGAI	Donating  away his wife
SANDESAR	Slashing his father

 

 

Nayanmaars with self injurious behavior

 

KALIYAR	Blood letting
KANNAPAR	Plucking eyes
YENAADHI	Allowing to be killed
KANAM PULLAR	Burning hair
MEYPORUL	Allowing to be killed
ARIVATTAYAR	Slashing the throat
MOORTHY	Crushing his bone

 

 

Nayanmaars with suicide or self immolation

 

SAMBANDAR	At his marriage- self immolation
NEELAKANDA YAAZHPAANAR	Along with sambandar-immolation
NEELANAKKAR	Along with sambandar-immolation
MURUGAR	Along with sambandar-immolation
PUGAZH CHOZHAR	Self immolation
CHERAMAAN PERUMAL	Along with sundarar- leaving the life
PERUMIZHALAI KURUMBAR	Along with sundarar-leaving the life
NANDANAAR	Self immolation

 

There is an another figure portrayed in periya puranam . He is the “Manuneedhi cholan”. He is not included as one of the nayanmars  .  But he is characterized as a symbol of justice in the book in the initial chapters. His act of sacrificing his son to be run over by the chariot for killing a calf is also an evidence of an narcissistic action.

 Why there is such a gross deviance in the behavior of these people? These must be understood  from the aspects of attachment theories in psycholology. Let us seethose theories now.