Umapathi Shivachariyar (13th century–14th century CE) was a

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and scholar. It is from his writings that details about earlier poets, chiefly

Parimelalhagar Parimelalhagar (), sometimes spelled Parimelazhagar, born Vanduvarai Perumal, was a Tamil poet and scholar known for his commentary on the ''Thirukkural''. He was the last among the canon of ten medieval commentators of the Kural text most hi ...

, have become known.

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Umapati Sivacharya celebrated the life of the

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saint

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in his 1313 CE work called ''Sekkizhar Nayanar Puranam''. In 1323 CE, he authored the work ''Sankarpa Nirakaranam''. This is known by his indication of the year as Sagam 1235 within the work of Sankarpa Nirakaranam. This translates to 1323 CE in the modern

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. In one of his

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poetries named "Valluvar Seer", he mentions about

indicating his commentary of the

Tirukkural The ''Tirukkuṟaḷ'' (), or shortly the ''Kural'' (), is a classic Tamil language text on commoner's morality consisting of 1,330 short couplets, or Kural (poetic form), kurals, of seven words each. The text is divided into three books wit ...

. This indicates that Parimelalhagar lived before Shivachariyar.

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