Thoditthalai Viluthandinar

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Thoditthalai Viluthandinar was a poet of the Sangam period, to whom a sole verse of the Sangam literature has been attributed, in addition to verse 22 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai. [1]

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Biography

Thoditthalai Viluthandinar came to be so called owing to the phrase "Thoditthalai Vilutthandu" used in the verse that he composed in Purananuru. [1] This was the only verse that describes the boisterous acts of young men. [2]

Contribution to the Sangam literature

Thoditthalai Viluthandinar has written a sole Sangam verse, namely, verse 243 of the Purananuru, apart from verse 22 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai. [1] [2]

Views on Valluvar and the Kural

Thoditthalai Viluthandinar opines about Valluvar and the Kural text thus: [3]

The great poet's work comprises everything; or, if there be anything which it does not comprise, he alone knows it.

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Vedanayagam, Rama (2017). திருவள்ளுவ மாலை மூலமும் எளிய உரை விளக்கமும் [Tiruvalluva Maalai: Moolamum Eliya Urai Vilakkamum] (in Tamil) (1 ed.). Chennai: Manimekalai Prasuram. pp. 35–36.
  2. 1 2 Kowmareeshwari (Ed.), S. (August 2012). அகநானூறு, புறநானூறு [Agananuru, Purananuru]. Sanga Ilakkiyam (in Tamil). Vol. 3 (1 ed.). Chennai: Saradha Pathippagam. pp. 410 (Book IV).
  3. ↑ Robinson, 2001, p. 26.

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