Can you know the history of Perumizhalaik Kurumba Nayanar and how sub caste is formed and is der any relation between okaligar community and kurumba community?

Answer 1

Kurumba Nayanar is from tribal class who were living in Perumizhalai.

He was a Siva Raja Yogi. He was going to Siva temple everyday, and

after chanting Panchakshara and praying to Him, he used to come

back and sit in Raja Yogi, visualizing Siva and Sakti on the Bull

within his Ajna Chakra. He came to know about Sundaramoorthy,

of Tiruvarur, who has just then sung Tiru Thondar Thohai. He

was eager to meet him. Suddenly, one day, he divined that Sundaramoorthy had been called by Siva and he was leaving for

Kailash. He did not want to waste more time. Now that Sundarmoorthy

was going to Kailash, he decided to go to Kailash and welcome him

when he arrived!

He activated his sushumna, unified his antha karanas and leaped into

the Siva-Sakti Effulgence in Sahasrara, by piercing his skull!

(Source: Periya Puranam, Sekkizhar. Tamil Verses. Book XII of

Siva Canons. Saiva Siddhanta Book Publishing House, Chennai.

Translation and prose rendering, my own.)