Kachiyapper

Kachiyapper was a temple priest who gained fame as a poet and Vedantist.

Personal life

Kachiyapper was born in a Saivite Brahmin family and officiated as a priest in the Ekambareswarar Temple in Kanchipuram.

Works

Kachiyapper was a very good poet and Vedantist. His greatest composition was the Kandapuranam, which is the Tamil counterpart of the Sanskrit Skanda Purana. The metres have been composed in the same style as the former. It is made up of six volumes comprising a total of 13,305 stanzas. According to Kachiyapper's preface to Parasurama Mudaliar's Kandapurana Vachagam, the work was completed in the Saka year 700 corresponding to 778 AD.