About Patiṉeṇ kīḻkkaṇakku - Tirikaṭukam
The author of Tirikaṭukam is Nallātaṉār. It contains 100 stanzas excluding the invocatory verse. It is composed in veṇpā metre.
The poem takes its name from three medicinal substances – dried ginger, black pepper and long pepper – which are good for human health. Similarly, the three ideas are ethical principals in postulated in each verse are intended to help strengthen the moral fibre of a human being.
66 verses speak of such objectives of human pursuit affirmatively, while the remaining 34 put forth negative values of life (= things that are harmful to human life). Each verse has the refrain ‘these three’ in the third line referring to these objectives.
Download Tirikaṭukam related E-books
| S.No | Details of the Book | Year | Category | Download |
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| 1 | Tirikaṭukam with Tirukkōṭṭiyūr Irāmānucācāriyār’s Commentary (Editor: Sadasiva Pillai; Publication: Varttamāṉataraṅkiṇī Cākai Press, Cheṉṉapaṭṭaṇam) | 1868 (vipava) | Commentary |  |
| 2 | Tirikaṭukam with Tirukkōṭṭiyūr Irāmānucācāriyār’s Commentary (Editor: Viswanāta Piḷḷai; Publication: Vittiyānupālaṉayantiracālai, Cheṉṉapaṭṭaṇam) | 1920 (irauttiri) | உரை /Commentary | |
| 3 | Tirikaṭukam (Text, Transliteration and Translations in English Verse and Prose) (Compiler and Editor: T.N. Ramachandran; Publication: Central Institute of Classical Tamil, Chennai) | 2012 | Translation | |