Udayana Kumara Kaviyam is one of the five minor epic poems of Sangham literature.[1] Though the name of the author is unknown, it is considered to be the work of a Jaina nun named Kandiyar. It is a Jaina treatise in 6 cantos with 369 stanzas. According to T.P. Meenakshi Sundaram the work "reads like the composition of a high school boy".[2] The poem is about the story of Udayana in the Perunkadai and hence is an adaptation of Peru-n-katai with smaller changes.[3][4]