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It is a very short poetic form being an independent couplet complete in 2 lines, the first line consisting of 4 words and the second line consisting of 3. As one of the five types of Venpa stanza, it must also conform to the grammar for Venpa, the most difficult and the most highly esteemed of stanzaic structures in classical Tamil literature.
Much of Tamil grammar is extensively described in the oldest available grammar book for Tamil, the Tolkāppiyam (dated between 300 BCE and 300 CE). Modern Tamil writing is largely based on the 13th century grammar Naṉṉūl , which restated and clarified the rules of the Tolkāppiyam with some modifications.
The Tamil script (தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடி Tamiḻ ariccuvaṭi [tamiɻ ˈaɾitːɕuʋaɽi]) is an abugida script that is used by Tamils and Tamil speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore,and elsewhere to write the Tamil language. [5]
According to the 17th-century work Prayoga Vivegam, the practice of writing self-written commentaries in the Indian Subcontinent began in Sanskrit literature. [29] The first self-written commentary in the Tamil literature was the one written by Iyyanaridhanar for his work Purapporul Venbamaalai. [29]
To change this template's initial visibility, the |state= parameter may be used: {{Tamil language | state = collapsed}} will show the template collapsed, i.e. hidden apart from its title bar. {{Tamil language | state = expanded}} will show the template expanded, i.e. fully visible.
This template is a hatnote that can be put at the top of a biographical article to point out to readers that one element of a Tamil person's name is not the family name but a patronymic, that is, the given name of their father.
[4] [5] This script is the sister of the Pallava script which once development in Southeast Asia. [4] Vatteluttu belonged to the group of Tamil-Malayalam scripts among the Southern Brahmi derivatives. [4] [6] The script was used for centuries in inscriptions and manuscripts of south India. [7]
The Grantha script was also historically used for writing Manipravalam, a blend of Tamil and Sanskrit which was used in the exegesis of Manipravalam texts. This evolved into a fairly complex writing system which required that Tamil words be written in the Tamil script and Sanskrit words be written in the Grantha script.