Biographical Sketches of Dekkan Poets/Mani Kyavasar
MANI KYAVASAR.
A bramin, Tamul poet of the Dravida country and a native of Chidambaram. After leaving school he became very religious, and composed many poems on the deity of Chidambaram. He collected all his effusions together in one volume and called it Chidambaram Cora, he was much respected and esteemed by his disciples, and by all classes of inhabitants, and died in a good old age.