The "Kuntalakeci" is one of "Aim-perum-kappiyam" ("lit." "five great kavyas", or The Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature) according to the later Tamil literary tradition. The surviving stanza fragments of the epic are in "kalitturai" poetic meter. It was likely an epic drama-musical for Tamil Buddhist audience in and about the 10th-century. The work likely ridiculed Jainism and Hinduism, attracting commetaries and debate. Various Tamil scholars dated between 10th- and 16th-centuries have called the Buddhist epic as a work of "tarukkavadam" (polemics and controversy).