Mangudi Marudhanar

Biography

Mangudi Marudhanar hailed from the town of Mangudi and belonged to the Vellan caste.[2]

Contribution to the Sangam literature

Mangudi Marudhanar wrote the Madurai Kaanchi literature of the Pathupattu (the Ten Idylls). Besides he has written 13 Sangam verses, including 3 in Kurunthogai, 2 in Natrinai, 6 in Purananuru, 1 in Agananuru, and 1 in Tiruvalluva Maalai.[2]

Views on Valluvar and the Kural

Mangudi Marudhanar opines about Valluvar and the Kural text thus:[3]

The beauty of Valluvar’s Cural is, that it not only illustrates the abstruse doctrines of the Vēdas, but is itself a Vēda, easy to be studied, and having the effect of melting the hearts of the righteous who study it. [Emphasis in original]

See also

Notes

  1. Vedanayagam, Rama (2017). திருவள்ளுவ மாலை மூலமும் எளிய உரை விளக்கமும் [Tiruvalluva Maalai: Moolamum Eliya Urai Vilakkamum] (in Tamil) (1 ed.). Chennai: Manimekalai Prasuram. pp. 38–39.
  2. Kowmareeshwari, S., ed. (August 2012). [Kurunthogai, Paripaadal, Kalithogai]. Sanga Ilakkiyam (in Tamil). Vol. 2 (1 ed.). Chennai: Saradha Pathippagam. p. 447.
  3. Robinson, 2001, p. 24.

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