their spirit. I cannot feel any hesitation in saying that the Christian scripture were among the sources from which the poet derived his inspiration”. This argument is sourceless. Tamil Scholars have put the author's date before 6th eentury A. D. “Thirukkutalh is the earlist of the ethical maxims. This work propably came immediately after the Cangam period’. So Christianity has nothing to insluence upon Kutalh. Since condemnation of Flesh diet is advocated, Buddhists and Jains claim Kutalh as their own. But he was free from sectarianism. Since Jains and Buddihists are atheists Saiva Siddhantists claim Kutalh as their own. “Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Shaivas are each fond of asserting the sage belonged to their own particular persuasion. But if everyone of these religions can claim many of his teachings as its own, none of them can deny that they also belong to their rivals. Almost all the names by which Thiruvalhlhuvar refers to the Lord in his 1st Chapter, apply distinctively to the Buddha and to the Arhat of the Jains. But Jains have no creater of the Universe. Buddhists have only four principles of matter. Learned Scholars have concluded that Tirukkutalh is comman to , all Philosophy and religions. Thiruvalhlhuvar is an enlightened monotheist and obviously, an eclectic which is manifest in his choice of epithets describing God’s attributes. In one of his poems, he says, “If one proclaims that the worlds affirms are false, he receives a demon's name (850). Here the Existing of God is refered. In the first Kutalh he says, “A Stands first among the letters, so the eternal God stands first”. Here the author interprets the idea of the Supreme is the first impression of the world produces in the reflecting mind. This is also interpreted by the Siddhanta Literatures and Bhagavat Gita. 440
