Parimelazhagar was a Tamil

Tamil language

Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...

 poet

Poet

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 and commentarian who was known for his commentary

Literary criticism

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 on the Thirukkural.

Biography

Simon Casie Chetty in his Tamil Plutarch mentions Parimelazhagar as a tamil

Tamil people

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 poet who was renowned mainly because of his commentary on the Thirukkural. Though there were nine other commentaries too, Parimelazhagar's was regarded as the best of the ten.

Publication

Parimelazhagar's commentary is the main source of interpretation of thirukural verses as claimed by many great tamil scholars. Even modern commentators use this commentary as a main source for their work. Almost all text books of schools and Universities of Tamilnadu and elsewhere use his commentary as authority for commentary in Kural.

A great amount of Parimelazhagar's commentary was published in English by Rev. Mr. Drew and others. Please refer Thiruvalluvar for more commentaries.

Praise

George L. Hart

George L. Hart

George L. Hart is a professor of Tamil language at the University of California, Berkeley.Hart received his Ph.D. in Sanskrit from Harvard University and taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison before joining the faculty at Berkeley...

 regards Parimelazhagar's treatise on yoga

Yoga

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 asanas as one of the purest literary works in Tamil.