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'''Idaikaadar''' ([[Tamil language|Tamil]]: இடைக்காடர்) was a [[Tamil people|Tamil]] [[siddhar]] of the [[Sangam period]]. He authored verse 54 of the [[Tiruvalluva Maalai]].<ref name="Vedanayagam_Valluvamalai">{{cite book<br />
| last = Vedanayagam<br />
| first = Rama<br />
| title =Tiruvalluva Maalai: Moolamum Eliya Urai Vilakkamum<br />
| publisher = Manimekalai Prasuram<br />
| edition = 1st<br />
| date = 2017<br />
| location = Chennai<br />
| pages =72–73<br />
| language = ta<br />
}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Unlike Idaikaadanar of the Sangam period, who was a poet by profession, Idaikaadar was a [[siddhar]].<ref name="SangaIlakkiyam_3">{{cite book<br />
| editor-last = Kowmareeshwari<br />
| editor-first = S. <br />
| title = Agananuru, Purananuru<br />
| publisher = Saradha Pathippagam<br />
| series = Sanga Ilakkiyam<br />
| volume = 3<br />
| edition = 1st<br />
| date = August 2012<br />
| location = Chennai<br />
| pages = 384<br />
| language = ta<br />
}}</ref> Idaikaadar hailed from [[Idaikattur]] near [[Madurai]].<ref name="Vedanayagam_Valluvamalai"/> He belongs to the Idaikkali country.<ref name="PoetDict">{{cite book<br />
| last = Gopalan <br />
| first = P. V. <br />
| title = புலவர் அகராதி [Dictionary of Poets]<br />
| publisher = M. Duraisami Mudaliyar and Company<br />
| edition = 1<br />
| date = 1957<br />
| location = Chennai<br />
| pages = 20<br />
| language = ta<br />
}}</ref> He is known for composing poems with excellent exemplifications. He has written in praise of the [[Chola Dynasty|Chola]] King [[Killivalavan|Kulamuttratthu Thunjiya Killi Valavan]] ([[Purananuru]] verse 42).<ref name="PoetDict"/> He has also authored the grammar text "Oosimuri".<ref name="PoetDict"/><br />
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He is believed to have attained jeeva samadhi at [[Thiruvannamalai]].<ref name="Vedanayagam_Valluvamalai"/> He hosted [[navagraha]]s during a famine. A small [[Navagraha temples|navagraha temple]] remains at the site today at [[Idaikattur]].{{citation needed|date=February 2018}}<br />
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==Literary contributions==<br />
Verse 54 of the [[Tiruvalluva Maalai]], an encomium written on [[Valluvar]] and the [[Tirukkural|Kural literature]], is attributed to Idaikaadar. The verse suggests, "Valluvar pierced a mustard and injected seven seas into it and compressed it into what we have today as Kural."<ref>{{cite book<br />
| last = Thamilarasu<br />
| first = Ve <br />
| title = Kuralamildham<br />
| publisher = Arutchudar Anbarkulu<br />
| edition = 1st<br />
| date = 2014<br />
| location = Chennai<br />
| pages = 42–43<br />
| language = ta<br />
}}</ref> It can be noted that [[Avvaiyar I]] fortified the meaning of this verse by replacing the first word "mustard" with the word "atom."<ref>{{cite book<br />
| last = Jagannadhan <br />
| first = Ki Va <br />
| title = Tirukkural: Aaraaycchi Padhippu<br />
| publisher = Ramakrishna Mission Vidhyalayam<br />
| edition = 3rd<br />
| date = 1963<br />
| location = Coimbatore<br />
| pages = 711<br />
| language = ta<br />
}}</ref> He is one of the two contributors of the Tiruvalluva Maalai who have penned the verse in the [[Kural venba]] metre, the other one being Avvaiyar I.<ref name="Vedanayagam_Valluvamalai"/><br />
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==View on Valluvar and the Kural==<br />
Idaikkadar opines about [[Valluvar]] and the [[Kural text]] thus:{{sfn|Robinson, 2001|p=27}}<br />
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{{cquote|The ''Cural'' contains much in a little compass. Such is the ingenuity of its author, that he has compressed within its narrow limits all the branches of knowledge, as if he had hollowed a mustard seed, and enclosed all the waters of the seven seas in it. <small>[Emphasis in original]</small>}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
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* [[Tiruvalluva Maalai]]<br />
* [[Sangam literature]]<br />
* [[List of Sangam poets]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
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* {{cite book |author=Edward Jewitt Robinson |title=Tamil Wisdom: Traditions Concerning Hindu Sages and Selections from Their Writings |url=https://archive.org/details/tamilwisdomtradi0000robi|year=2001 |publisher=Asian Educational Services |location = New Delhi|ref={{sfnRef|Robinson, 2001}}}}<br />
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