An additional five have been recovered, but whether they were part of "Kundalakesi" has not been proven conclusively. The 19 verses recovered have been found in the commentaries for "Tolkāppiyam", "Veera Sozhiyam", "Yapperungalam ", "Thakkayagaparani", "Sivagnana Siddhiyar Parapakkam " (Thirvorriyur Gnanaprakasar's commentary), the epic "Neelakesi" (Nilakeci) and the poem "Vaisyapuranam". "Nilakeci" — one of the five lesser Tamil epics — was a Jain religious work about the life of the female Jain monk of the same name, who was a rival preacher of the Buddhist protagonist of "Kundalakesi". The "Nilakeci" was written as a Jain rebuttal to the Buddhist criticism of Jainism in "Kundalakesi".