VALAIYAPATI

Chintamani Pulavar is the author.

Another lost book, Vaaiypati, has been cited in other Tamil writings in pieces. A father with two wives abandons the one who is pregnant with their kid, and when the son gets older, he goes in search of his real father. According to the content that is currently available and the commentaries that reference Valayapathi, it appears that this work was partially a jain text that contested and attacked other Indian religions. that it endorsed the early Jain ideas of asceticism, horror at meat consumption, and monastic hostility to women.

According to Kamil Zvelebil, an expert in Tamil literature, it is therefore "almost certain" to be a Jain epic, composed by a Jain monk. Uncertainty has been caused, though, by the lengthy portions on Shaivism.