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410 Tevaram of Appar or Sundara Murti. It would only be a vain subterfuge of pandits if it was said that their hymns on that place had beer lost along with several others at Chidambaram.

In the Kalladam one may find references to Tiruvalluvar, Nakkirar, Kannappar, Chakkiyar and Murti Nayanar. Concerning the last it says,—

This event happened, as we have said in Appendix I, about the beginning of the seventh century, which must be taken as the earliest limit of the age of Kalladam.

Again the same work refers to the commentary of Nakkirar on Iraiyanar's Agapporul and to the commendatory verses of the forty-nine professors of the third academy on the Kural of Tiruvalluvar.—

The above quotations show clearly that the Kalladam