Udayana Kumara Kaviyam

Topics in Tamil literature
Sangam Literature
Five Great Epics
Silappatikaram	Manimekalai
Civaka Cintamani	Valayapathi
Kundalakesi
The Five Minor Epics
Neelakesi	Culamani
Naga Kumara Kaviyam	Udayana Kumara Kaviyam
Yashodhara Kaviyam
Bhakti Literature
Naalayira Divya Prabandham	Kamba Ramayanam
Tevaram	Tirumurai
Tamil people
Sangam	Sangam landscape
Tamil history from Sangam literature	Ancient Tamil music
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Udayana Kumara Kaviyam is one of the five minor epic poems of Sangham literature.^[1] Though the name of the author is unknown, it is considered to be the work of a Jaina nun named Kandiyar. It is a Jaina treatise in 6 cantos with 369 stanzas. According to T.P. Meenakshi Sundaram the work "reads like the composition of a high school boy".^[2] The poem is about the story of Udayana in the Perunkadai and hence is an adaptation of Peru-n-katai with smaller changes.^[3]^[4]

References

^ Division, Publications. INDIA: SOCIETY RELIGION AND LITERATURE IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PERIODS. Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. ISBN 978-81-230-2191-1.
^ Venkataramaiah, K. M. (1996). A Handbook of Tamil Nadu. International School of Dravidian Linguistics. p. 102. ISBN 978-81-85692-20-3.
^ Datta, Amaresh (1988). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Devraj to Jyoti. Sahitya Akademi. p. 1195. ISBN 978-81-260-1194-0.
^ Venkataramaiah, K. M. (1996). A Handbook of Tamil Nadu. International School of Dravidian Linguistics. p. 400. ISBN 978-81-85692-20-3.

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[1] Division, Publications. INDIA: SOCIETY RELIGION AND LITERATURE IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PERIODS. Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. ISBN 978-81-230-2191-1.

[2] Venkataramaiah, K. M. (1996). A Handbook of Tamil Nadu. International School of Dravidian Linguistics. p. 102. ISBN 978-81-85692-20-3.

[3] Datta, Amaresh (1988). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Devraj to Jyoti. Sahitya Akademi. p. 1195. ISBN 978-81-260-1194-0.

[4] Venkataramaiah, K. M. (1996). A Handbook of Tamil Nadu. International School of Dravidian Linguistics. p. 400. ISBN 978-81-85692-20-3.

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