The checked edition attributes Tirumurukarruppatai to Nakkirar and places it within the Pattuppattu collection. The title belongs to the arruppatai tradition of guide-poetry. Here, the invitation leads toward Murugan and the places and people associated with his worship.
Names such as Nakkirar occur across literary and devotional accounts whose relationships require scholarship. A confident modern biography should not be constructed merely by joining every story that carries the name. The poem itself offers a substantial place to begin: its language, its landscape and its picture of devotion.