Dear all,

I'd be grateful if anyone could point me to any scholarly discussion of the concept of 'cāṉṟōṉ' in Tirukurral 69:

īṉṟa poḻutiṉ perituvakkum taṉmakaṉaic

cāṉṟōṉ eṉakkēṭṭa tāy.

Thank you,

Ram

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

Fellow of the British Academy

Distinguished Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy

Deputy Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Lancaster University