Four hundred verses in the akam love-poetry convention, read as the soul's courtship and marriage to Śiva — kalaviyal's secret meetings giving way to karpiyal's wedded love.
Māṇikkavācakar · 400 Verses and two invocations
Prefatory versesFirst Chapter: Natural UnionSecond Chapter: The Role of the ConfidantThird Chapter: The Hero's Meeting PlaceFourth Chapter: Gaining the Confidante's AssentFifth Chapter: The Two Sensing His ApproachSixth Chapter: Realizing It in AdvanceSeventh Chapter: Realizing the LongingEighth Chapter: Desiring Her BashfulnessNinth Chapter: Testing by FrightTenth Chapter: Resort to the Palm-HorseEleventh Chapter: The Heroine Told of His PlightTwelfth Chapter: Remaining AwayThirteenth Chapter: The Daytime TrystFourteenth Chapter: The Night TrystFifteenth Chapter: The Hero's Staying AwaySixteenth Chapter: ElopementSeventeenth Chapter: Hastening the MarriageEighteenth Chapter: Parting to Earn the Wedding WealthNineteenth Chapter: Praising the MarriageTwentieth Chapter: Parting to StudyTwenty-First Chapter: Parting to Guard the RealmTwenty-Second Chapter: Parting to Pacify Rival KingsTwenty-Third Chapter: Parting to Help a King in NeedTwenty-Fourth Chapter: Parting to Earn WealthTwenty-Fifth Chapter: Estrangement Through a Courtesan