He received his education from his mother and his grand father described in several traditions and texts.
The Tamraparniyan sea route was adopted by Bogar in his travels from South India to China via Sri Lanka (ancient Tamraparni).
[1] A disciple of Agastya's teachings, Bogar himself taught meditation, alchemy, yantric designs and Kriya yoga at the Kataragama Murugan shrine, inscribing a yantric geometric design etched onto a metallic plate and installing it at the sanctum sanctorum of the Kataragama temple complex.
[3][4] Bogar is one of the earliest pilgrims to have traversed the Murugan Tiruppadai of Sri Lanka.
The milk that was poured on this statue has been said to have mixed with some of the herbs thereby proving to be an effective cure for the diseases during the time[5][6][7] According to Siddhar medicine documents, Bogar was the discoverer of an elixir of immortality.