 A great devotee of Siva, he yearned to visit Chidambaram the greatest of Siva temples.He greatly feared that caste prejudice would prevent him from entering the temple, but his devotion overcame this obstacle, and he obtained his desire, becoming physically merged with Siva in a blaze of light.Bharati's version of "NantanAr Carittiram" is a masterly development of the story narrated in Sekkizhar's "Periya PurANam".