Biographical Sketches of Dekkan Poets/Grana Sammandhar
GRANA SAMMANDHAR.
This was a Tamul bramin poet, he was born at Chiyali near Chidambaram, and well educated during his infancy: he was a very prudent person, and composed a work called Tevaran, which mentions the different controversies he had with the Jains, and the tenets of that heretical sect. No authentic account of the death of this poet, has been handed down.