[3] Composed by Mankuti Marutanar – probably the chief court poet of the Pandya king Nedunjeliyan II, the Maduraikkāñci is the sixth poem in the Pattuppāṭṭu anthology.
Embedded indirectly within the poem is the poet's counsel to the king on justice, the impermanence of everything in life, and the proper rule of the kingdom.
It mentions seaports in the neithal coastline, the prosperous marutham farms, the hilly kurinchi region, the palai arid area.
[6] Madurai is described as the capital city with fortified gates, broad streets, mansions and big markets.
The Maduraikkanci presents the social and economic life of the city in five sections, under the following subheadings: morning, evening, dusk, night, and dawn.
Newly married women pray inside the temple, light lamps and make offerings to the goddesses, to be blessed with children.
[2][11] The lines related to the Vedas, states Chelliah, alludes to the jivanmukta ideology found in Hinduism.