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'''Udayana Kumara Kaviyam''' is one of the [[Five Minor Epics|five minor epic poems]] of Sangham literature.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Division |first=Publications |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uib2DAAAQBAJ |title=INDIA: SOCIETY RELIGION AND LITERATURE IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PERIODS |publisher=Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting |isbn=978-81-230-2191-1 |language=en}}</ref> Though the name of the author is unknown, it is considered to be the work of a Jaina nun named Kandiyar. It is a Jaina treatise in 6 cantos with 369 stanzas. According to T.P. Meenakshi Sundaram the work "reads like the composition of a high school boy".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Venkataramaiah |first=K. M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2pAMAQAAMAAJ&q=Udayana+Kumara+Kaviyam |title=A Handbook of Tamil Nadu |date=1996 |publisher=International School of Dravidian Linguistics |isbn=978-81-85692-20-3 |pages=102 |language=en}}</ref> The poem is about the story of Udayana in the ''Perunkadai'' and hence is an adaptation of ''Peru-n-katai'' with smaller changes.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Datta |first=Amaresh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zB4n3MVozbUC&dq=Udayana+Kumara+Kaviyam&pg=PA1195 |title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Devraj to Jyoti |date=1988 |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |isbn=978-81-260-1194-0 |pages=1195 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Venkataramaiah |first=K. M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2pAMAQAAMAAJ&q=Udayana+Kumara+Kaviyam |title=A Handbook of Tamil Nadu |date=1996 |publisher=International School of Dravidian Linguistics |isbn=978-81-85692-20-3 |pages=400 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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