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the works were called *Kannivana-purāṇam* and *Pūm-puliyūr-nāḍagam*, names which seem to imply that they were Tamil works of a popular character.³ In endowing a lamp at Tiruvālangāḍu, North Arcot, in 1210 the donor, Aṟanilaiviśākhan Trailōkyamallan Vatsarājan of Arumbākkam, describes himself as a person who rendered the Bhārata in elegant Tamil and discovered the path of Śiva.⁴ In 1146 a certain Marudattūr-uḍaiyān states that he gave to the temple at Nāngupaṭṭi some land which he had received from Vedavanamuḍaiyān of Paiyyūr whom he had celebrated in verse.⁵ Two other instances occur in inscriptions which, though doubtless of the Cōḷa period, cannot be more precisely dated as the names of the kings in whose reigns the records were engraved are not given. When the king was witnessing a dance by Pūngōyil-nāyakat-talaikkōli in one of the pavilions in the temple at Tiruvārūr, he was pleased to order the gift of some *iṟaiyili* land in the *brahmadēya* village Vāyāṟṟūr to Pūngōyil Nambi who had celebrated a feudatory of the king (*nammakkaḷ*), Vīraśoḷa Aṇukkar, in a poem called *Vīraṇukkavijayam*;⁶ evidently the Nambi and the *talaikkōli* were ministering in the same shrine. Lastly, the officers of the treasury of the temple of Tiruvallam gave away 100 *kulis* from the temple lands to Varadayap-pulavar of Kuṟaṭṭi who had composed the *Vallai-andādi*, a poem in praise of the local deity.