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Time-Decision.
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Special assistance may have been provided. But the idea of giving it to him completely composed does not seem right; because if Thiruvalluvar was so incompetent that he could not compose such a work himself, then he would not have been worthy of presenting it in his own name before the assembly of poets—he would then—present the 'Kural' in the name of the Elaacharya, in whose name there seems to be no obstacle in presenting it, and if he himself was capable of composing such a work, then it is not possible that he had the entire work written by another scholar and revealed it in his own name or that he did not put his own pen in it at all. In this matter, the Hindu tradition that Thiruvalluvar composed this work himself with the help of 'Elalasingh' seems more weighty; but it is not quite right to call the author a Shaiva follower. It is very possible that the Hindu 'Elalasingh' is the same as Elaacharya or that this is some name of Elaacharya's householder life. In such a situation, without the availability of any strong evidence or proper support, one cannot readily believe in the natural statement of the lineage. And it cannot be said on the basis of that alone that Elaacharya was a name change of Kundakunda.
.. Time as stated in the lineage. Now take the time consideration. The lineage on the basis of which Chakravarti Maharaj has stated the said time of Kundakunda is the same lineage which has been shown to be very doubtful and unreliable in part 'B' above. And therefore, until the doubts arising on it