Kangeyar was a Shaivite poet and ascetic who appears to have lived during 14th century.[1][need quotation to verify] born in a Sengunthar Kaikola Mudaliar family of Tondaimandalam. He wrote Urichol Nigandu, a lexical work which is familiar to scholars. This lexicon was mentioned by Andipulavar in his Asiriya Nigandu.[citation needed] An edition of this work was published at Pondicherry in 1840, comprising only 220 stanzas but the one which was issued from the press at Jaffna in 1858 had 330 Stanzas. The lexical work unlike others of the kind,[2] being written in the Venba metre and well adapted for beginners is used in the schools.[3]

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  1. ^ Cuppiramaṇiyan̲, Ca. Vē (2007). Papers on Tamil Studies. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
  2. ^ "unknown". Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Asiatic Society of Bengal: 40. 1892. Retrieved 13 July 2014. {{cite journal}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  3. ^ Union Territory of Pondicherry - Francis Cyril Antony, Pondicherry (India : Union Territory). 2011. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
  • The Tamil Plutach: containing a summary account of the lives of the poets by Simon Casie Chitty
  • A survey of the sources for the history of Tamil literature by Mu Kōvintacāmi