Padikasu Pulavar
Padikasu Pulavar is a Tamil poet who had lived during the late seventeenth and early 18th century. He was a native of Kalandai in Thondaimadalam. He was famous for authoring Thondaimandala Sadhakam[1], a poetic collection written in praise of Thondaimandala Vellalars or Agriculturists. He had also authored Thandalaiyar Sadhakam. He was a court poet of Raghunatha Kilavan, first Sethupathi of Ramnad. The poet was a contemporary of Kalamega Pulavar[2]. Ramalinga Swamigal had written a fine commentary on the invocatory song of the book, Thondamandala Sathagam, which contains one hundred songs, sung by the great poet Padikasu Pulavar[3]