Poetry Alteration in Nachinarkiniyar’s Kalithogai Commentaries Text

நச்சினார்க்கினியரின் கலித்தொகை உரையில் செய்யுள் விகாரம்

Abstract

Commentator do not merely interpret the text. In his explanation he will provide all the information related to the explanation for poet. The authors of the text study all the texts of the period and their previous period and write the text for their text through it. On the whole, the text can be called an encyclopaedia. The poets who composed songs used to mutilate some words based on prosody in their verses. Only then is the song complete in terms of yap. Poetry alteration was a strategy used by Sangam poets for this purpose. Nachinarkiniyar was the author of Commentaries text for the Sangam literature book Kalithogai. This article highlights the notes related to the Poetry alteration found in Nachinarkiniyar’s Commentaries text.