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{{Infobox Hindu leader
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|caption= Karunai Prakasar
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|birth_place= [[Kanchipuram]]
|birth_name= karunai prakasar
|death_date= {{death date and age|1774|12|05|1756|04|02|df=y}}
|death_place= Thiru vengai
|philosophy= [[Shaivism|Saiva]]
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'''Karunai Prakasar ''' ([[Tamil language|Tamil]]: கருணை பிரகாசர் ) was a seventeenth century Saiva spiritual writer. He was born to a Tamil-speaking [[Desikar]] family in [[Kanchipuram]], Tamil Nadu. He was a spiritual writer who wrote more than five books. . He worshipped Saiva Siddantha. He got married when he was sixteen. He attained Mukthi Motcha {{what|date=November 2020}} at the age of eighteen. Therefore, he had no children.

==Life==
He was born in the town of [[Kanchipuram]], Thondai Mandalam in [[Tamil Nadu]], [[South India]] into an orthodox [[Saiva]] Tamil ([[Desikar]]) family around the middle of the 17th century. His father, [[Kumara swamy Desikar]], was a respectable [[spiritual leader]] and the Archaka and Dikshithar for the people of Thondai Mandalam. His father left his family and went to Thiruvannamalai with his disciples. There he planned to become a Sage but failed to do so. God wast married and fathered three sons and a daughter. Karunai Prakasar was the second child, and his siblings included [[Siva Prakasar]], Velaiyar, and Gnambikai ammal.

Siva Prakasar, his elder brother, the poet who was blessed as ‘Sivanuputhichelvar’. His sister Gnambikai married [[Perur Santhalinga Swamigal]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sivasiva.in/sri_santhalingar.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2012-04-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120106163233/http://sivasiva.in/sri_santhalingar.html |archivedate=6 January 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> His younger brother, Velaiyar married Meenatchi Ammal. He had a son named Sundaresanar.

Along with his elder brother Sivaprakasa swamigal, he travelled widely all over Tamil Nadu, famous temples like Thiruvannamalai, Thiruchendur. On one of his journeys around Tamil Nadu Sivaprakasa Swamigal, Karunai prakasar and Velaiyar went to Tirunelveli to meet and be taught by a pandit Valliyur Thambiran, who was an expert on grammar. This teacher accepted them as his student. Karunai prakasar learnt Tamil grammar along with his brothers. After that, he married Kamatchi. He attained mukthi motcha in Thiruvengai at the age of eighteen. His elder brother Siva prakasa Swamigal and younger brother came to see his graveyard.

==Books==

* ''Seegalathi sarukkam l''
* ''Ishtalinga Agaval''

==References==
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==External links==
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