Mugaiyalur Sirukarunthumbiyar, also known in full as Sonaattu Mugaiyalur Sirukarunthumbiyar (

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: ), was a poet of the

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, to whom two verses of

Sangam literature The Sangam literature (Tamil: சங்க இலக்கியம், ''caṅka ilakkiyam'';) historically known as 'the poetry of the noble ones' (Tamil: சான்றோர் செய்யுள், ''Cāṉṟōr ceyyuḷ'') connotes ...

have been attributed, in addition to verse 17 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai.

Biography

Sirukarunthumbiyar lived in the town of Mugaiyalur. He has composed poetry on Vallarkilaan.

Contribution to Sangam literature

Mugaiyalur Sirukarunthumbiyar has composed two verses in the

Purananuru The ''Purananuru'' (, literally "four hundred oemsin the genre puram"), sometimes called ''Puram'' or ''Purappattu'', is a classical Tamil poetic work and traditionally the last of the Eight Anthologies (''Ettuthokai'') in the Sangam literatu ...

(verses 181 and 265) and verse 17 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai.

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Biography

Contribution to Sangam literature

See also

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