Nanpalur Sirumedhaviyar
Nanpalūr Sirumēthāviyār was a poet of the Sangam period, to whom 3 verses of the Sangam literature have been attributed, including verse 20 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai.Biography
Sirumedhaviyar hailed from the town of Nanpalur. Being highly intellectual at a young age resulted his being called Sirumedhaviyar, which literally means "little genius".Sirumedhaviyar has written 3 verses, including 2 in Agananuru and 1 in Tiruvalluva Maalai. He was the first to divide the Tirukkural into Iyals or subdivisions, which he suggested in his composition of verse 20 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai, which was later followed variously by the Medieval commentators of the Kural text.
