Criticism
There is strong dose of anti-Jain polemic in Tevaram poetry of Campantar. The Saiva saints considered the Jain monks as their primary competitors for royal and social patronage, and tried to use pejorative characterisation to diminish Jainism. According to Aiyangar, Manickavasagar's Tiruvackam partakes the characters of Tevaram hymners before him and express more intense form of devotion. The fervor of utterances, the appeals to God by the Tamils do not find clear expression in other part of India.
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