 Other scholars state that this poem may have had multiple purposes and served as a model with embedded information for other bards as they composed poems for their audience.This is confirmed in other early Tamil poems where catalogs of information about flora, fauna, donors and other topics were embedded in the poem in a metric form.Yet other scholars see it, along with certain structural features of the "Kurincippattu" as reasons to suspect a "near-forgery committed upon a famous bard", states Zvelebil.