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<p>2402:3A80:1616:D118:E642:9C8B:5F99:321D: Added full name</p> <hr /> <div>{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}<br /> {{Use Indian English|date=October 2016}}<br /> '''Irattaipulavar''' (meaning The twin poets) or '''Irattaiyar''' were brothers born in [[Tirumaanturai|Alandurai]] of [[Chola Nadu]] during 14th century in the [[Sengunthar|Sengunthar Kaikola Mudaliar]] community . The elder, called Mudhusuriyar 'Old Sun' was born lame; the younger, Ilanjchuriyar 'Young Sun,' was blind.&lt;ref name=&quot;Mahalingam&quot;&gt;{{cite book|last=Mahalingam|first=T. V.|title=Administration and Social Life Under Vijayanagar: Social life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qxtuAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=23 December 2011|publisher=University of Madras}}&lt;/ref&gt; They went about as wanderers, the blind man carrying his lame brother on the shoulders, complementing each other in poetry as in life, one man completing [[extempore]] what the other began. They were contemporaries of [[:ta:காளமேகம்|Kalamega pulavar]]<br /> <br /> ==Literary works==<br /> There were hundreds of tanippatals (meaning solitary stanzas) composed by The Twins in this way to meet about emergencies. They had composed Ekambaranatharula celebrating the famous Saiva shrine in [[Kanchi]], the Tillaikkalampakam of 100 stanzas, added with kappuvenpa on [[Chidambaram Nataraja Temple|Lord Nataraja]] of [[Chidambaram]], which was interesting and important for the history of the Tamil language. Their Amatturkkalampakam contains 101 stanzas apart from a kappuviruttam.<br /> <br /> == Sources ==<br /> Tamil literature, Volume 2, Part 1 By [[Kamil Zvelebil]]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> <br /> {{authority control}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Irattaipulavar}}<br /> [[Category:Indian male poets]]<br /> [[Category:Indian Shaivite religious leaders]]<br /> [[Category:14th-century Indian poets]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{India-poet-stub}}</div>

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