The intimate friendship between kōpperuñcōḻaṉ and Picirāntaiyāṟ was traced to the Puṟanāṉūṟū by Pope and he comments on it saying “If the friends of Orestes and Pylades are worthy of remembrance, these friends of thousand years ago should not be forgotten. They stand out of the shadows of the past like kindly- hearted Epicureans, loving and beloved; and their deaths ever were not gloomy, but wise and philosophical as they understood wisdom and philosophy.”¹⁹⁰

Pope writing on “Pēkaṉ And His Deserted Queen Kaṇṇaki” of the Puṟanāṉūṟū, notes “that they” meaning the lyrics if Puṟanāṉūṟū)” are full of hints of dramatic situations and only by endeavouring to comprehend these can the student hope to gain a full perception of the beauty of the verses.”¹⁹¹ Pope feels that though historically we know nothing definite about the intercessions of the bards, still the poem is very appealing and one will return to read it several times.¹⁹²

In the article on Ōri of Puṟanāṉūṟū, Pope says that it (Stanza 163) is a “singularly artistic Tamil lyric.”¹⁹³

He points out that the “Ālattūṟ Kilḻār” (song 34 of Puṟanāṉūṟū) is in every way very noteworthy. The first six lines of this stanza are an amplification of Kuṟaḷ 110.¹⁹⁴ Song 397 of the same work is compared with Māṇikkavācakar’s “Morning Hymn In The Temple” (i.e. Tiruvācakam 20) by Pope.¹⁹⁵

He makes a valuable suggestion, when he says that “Lowell’s exquisite poem of Sir Launfal, will be surprised at the resemblance it bears in parts to various Tamil lyrics. We venture to suggest to the educated youth of South India this poem of Sir Launfal as an exceedingly fitting one for translation or transfusion into Tamil.”¹⁹⁶

190. P.L.T. Vol. 28, No. 6, Feb. 1899, Pp. 29 to 33

191. Ibid. Vol. 29, No. 3, Feb. 1900, Pp. 57 to 60; Foot Note P. 57

192. Ibid. Pp. 57 to 60 Foot Note 57 to 60

193. Ibid. 1900, Pp. 220-221

194. Ibid. Sept. 1900, Pp. 250-256

195. Ibid. Oct. 1900, Pp. 281-285

196. Ibid. Vol. III Sept. 1899, Pp. 116-118