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9789558415443. Apē Gama (Sinhala:අපේ ගම, Tamil:எங்கள் கிராமம்) (lit. Our Village) [1] is a semi-autobiographical book by Sri Lankan author Martin Wickramasinghe detailing the narrator's experiences as a child in Southern Province, Sri Lanka. Initially published in 1940, [1] it was translated into English in ...
Traditional Tamil grammar consists of five parts, namely eḻuttu, sol, poruḷ, yāppu and aṇi. Of these, the last two are mostly applicable in poetry. [1] The following table gives additional information about these parts. Eḻuttu (writing) defines and describes the letters of the Tamil alphabet and their classification.
For example, unlike the Pratisakhyas and the later Tamil, the first book of Tolkappiyam does not treat /ṭ/ and /ṇ/ as retroflex. [54] Book 2 Sollatikaram "Sol" meaning "word", and the second book deals with "etymology, morphology, semantics and syntax", states Zvelebil. [53] The sutras cover compounds, some semantic and lexical issues.
Agattiyam. Agattiyam (Tamil: அகத்தியம் ⓘ), also spelled as Akattiyam, [1] according to Tamil tradition, was the earliest book on Tamil grammar. It is a non-extant text, traditionally believed to have been compiled and taught in the First Sangam, (circa 300 BC) by Agattiyar (Agastya) to twelve students. [2][3][4] Agastya is ...
The Sangam literature is the historic evidence of indigenous literary developments in South India in parallel to Sanskrit, and the classical status of the Tamil language. While there is no evidence for the first and second mythical Sangams, the surviving literature attests to a group of scholars centered around the ancient Madurai (Maturai ...
Patiṟṟuppattu. The Patiṟṟuppattu (lit. Ten Tens, sometimes spelled Pathitrupathu, [5]) is a classical Tamil poetic work and one of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) in Sangam literature. [1] A panegyric collection, it contains puram (war and public life) poems. The Chera kings, known as the Cheramal, are the centre of the work.
This book contains 5 cantos. The book is the puram (heroic) genre. [41] The katais range between 53 and 272 lines each. In addition to the 25 cantos, the epic has 5 song cycles: [41] The love songs of the seaside grove; The song and dance of the hunters; The round dance of the herdswomen; The round dance of the hill dwellers; The benediction
Thiruvarur Viruttachala Kalyanasundaram (Thiruvarur Virudhachala Kalyanasundaram : 26 August 1883 – 17 September 1953), better known by his initials Thiru. Vi. Ka, was an Indian scholar, essayist and activist for the Tamil language. The analytical depth of his commentaries on classical Tamil literature and philosophy, and the clear, fluid ...