The Perumpanattrupadai mentions Vishnu and describes him as the god who is tall, dark-skinned and as one from whom the four-faced god was born (a Puranic legend about Brahma being born from Vishnu's navel). The poem also mentions a mother goddess (Uma, Parvati), whom it alludes to as beauteous queen whose great womb bore the red god (Murugan). In its similes, it mentions the Ganges river, the Pandavas of the Mahabharata, and the Yoga adept rishis (sages). According to Hudson, the poem is notable that it explicitly mentions three temples and alludes to one additional temple for these gods. The similes used in the poem are those found in the Vedic and Puranic mythologies of Hinduism.