- have
written commentaries on it, over the centuries: The
commentary by
Ilampuranar dated to the 11th or 12th
century CE is the most
comprehensive and probably...
- pālai or
wasteland is not seen as
being a
naturally occurring ecology.
Ilampuranar, in his
commentary on the Tolkappiyam,
explains that instead, the landscape...
-
kurumpanai natu ("Seven dwarf-palm lands")
Other medieval writers, such as
Ilampuranar and Perasiriyar, also make
stray references to the loss of antediluvian...
- Few
examples of
their use
survive outside texts on
literary theory.
Ilampuranar, an
early mediaeval commentator,
describes the
constituents of each of...
- have been
found in
commentaries of
Yapperungala Viruthi Ceyyul and
Ilampuranar's and Nachinarkiniyar's
commentaries of Tolkāppiyam. Adiyarkkunallar's...
- Tolkappiyam. A
preface of this work,
written during the
twelfth century CE by
Ilampuranar describes the work as
aindiram nirainda Tolkappiyam[incorrect quote]('comprising...
- "the flame-hued lord of
Alavayil in Madurai".
Later sources, such as
Ilampuranar's commentary on the Tolkappiyam, name the
author of the
sixty nūṟpās as...
