Examples[edit]

Few examples of Vatakkiruttal for friendship:

After the death of king Vēl Pāri in a battle, his friend poet Kapilar performs this act in Kabilar Kundru.^[1] In another, King Kopperuncholan and his friend poet Pisiranthaiyar did Vatakkiruttal.^[2]

George L. Hart; Hank Heifetz (2002). The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom: An Anthology of Poems from Classical Tamil, the Purananuru. Columbia University Press. 0-231-11563-6.

ISBN

Thapar, Romila (1996). Tradition, dissent and ideology: essays in honour of . Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-563867-0.

Romila Thapar

Richards, John F. (1978). Kingship and Authority in South Asia. University of Wisconsin--Madison.