It is with respect to the latter that Parimēlaḻakar runs afoul of some modern scholars he constructs the meaning of Tirukkuṟaḷ in conformity with orthodox Brahmanical ideology, whereas in the view of Dravidianists Tirukkuṟaḷ documents the cultural attainments of an early Tamil civilization that was free of many of the oppressive features of Indo-Aryan civilization, such as caste. The various interpretive maneuvers Parimēlaḻakar brings to bear on the text are motivated by both textual values, such as continuity and coherence, and by cultural values, such as adherence to the dictates of varṇāśramadharma and the pursuit of mokṣa. Among the "classic" commentaries on Tirukkuṟaḷ, that of Parimēlaḻakar (late thirteenth-early fourteenth century) has exerted the greatest influence on the way Tamils have understood this text's terse and sometimes cryptic verses. D., has long received a great deal of attention from commentators. Tirukkuṟaḷ, a Tamil text which some scholars believe was composed by a Jain in the fifth or sixth century A.
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