Kapilar

Kapilar heard about the generosity and virtue of Vēl Pāri, a powerful Vēlir King who ruled over Parambunādu and paid him a visit.

[1] Kapilar sang about a number of kings such as Agudhai, Irungovel, Selva Kadungo Vazhiyadhan, Cheramaan Maandharancheral Irumborai, Ori, Nalli, Malayamaan Thirumudikkaari, Malayan, Vichikkon, Vaiyavi Koperum Pegan, Vel Pari.

They laid siege to the heavily fortified country of Parambu, but Vēl Pāri refused to give in and the war dragged for years.

Kabilar approached the kings and asked them to turn back describing his patron Pari as an unconquerable warrior (excerpt from Purananuru: song 109): After a long war, Vēl Pāri was killed by treachery.

Kurincippattu is a poetic work in the Ten Idylls series of the Eighteen Greater Texts anthology in Tamil literature containing 261 lines of poems in the Achiriyappa meter written by Kabilar.

An ancient note states that Kapilar wrote this to explain the beauty of Tamil poetry to a north Indian king names Brhadatta.

[citation needed] Kapilar is believed to have accompanied Valluvar in his journey to the Madurai College of scholars to present the latter’s work, the Tirukkural.