sentences:  Such scholars also state that some other South Indian Saivaite and Tantric traditions were also introduced by teachers from Kashmir.It appears that the Sabhaiyar group of the Vadama, were present in the Chola Empire in the 9th century, since the grant of the "entire village of Chirri[dai]yarru excluding the "kani" of Samgappadi-kilan was made to the temple of Mahadeva at Tirumalpperu as a tax-free "devadana" in the 21st year [892 A.D.] of the reign of Chola Aditya I and the administration of the charity was entrusted to the "sabhaiyar" of Puduppakkam in Purisanadu".The Srivaishnava hold that their guru Ramanujacharya, born in the first quarter of the 11th century, was a Vadama by birth.