bearing names such as cantucēṉan, intucēṉaṉ, tarumacēṉaṉ, black Kantucēṉaṉ and Kaṉakacēṉaṉ.
wandering like female monkeys.
when Araṉ in Tiruvālavāy stands by my side as help I am not to be easily defeated by the amaṇar who have lost the inward eye and who do not know the good things in āriyam and refined tamiḻ.
The year 470 A.D.
witnessed the establishment of the Dravida Saṅgha by Vajranandi: About this time the Jains were organized in a hierarchy of Sanghas.
The basic Sangha was sub-divided into four units called Nandigaṇam, Sēṉagaṇam, Simnagaṇam and Devagaṇam.
These are mentioned by Tiruñāṉacampantar in his Tēvāram.
There were several prominent devotees belonging to the Nandigaṇam, one of whom was Vajranandi, mentioned above.
Inscriptions of the Tamil country beginning from about the 6th century A.D.
speak of several Nandi devotees of Jainism.
Tirunāvukkaracar bore the name `Dharmacēṉa` when he was a jain.
It shows that he belonged to Sēnagaṇam A social history of the Tamils - Part I- page, 523, by K.K.
Pillai University of Madras, 1969.
The names mentioned in this verse belonged to the Cēnagaṇam.