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Agathiyar (), Chairman of first Tamil Sangam, at Madurai in the Pandiya kingdom.Statue of Agastya in the Tamil Thai (Mother Tamil) temple in Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India. The Tamil Sangams (Tamil: சங்கம் caṅkam, Old Tamil 𑀘𑀗𑁆𑀓𑀫𑁆, from Sanskrit saṅgha) were three legendary gatherings of Tamil scholars and poets that, according to traditional Tamil accounts ...
[web 3] It was named after the literature of poets and scholars of the legendary Sangam academies centered in the city of Madurai. [28] In the period between 300 BCE and 300 CE, Tamilakam was ruled by the three Tamil dynasties of Pandya, Chola and Chera, and a few independent chieftains, the Velir. The evidence on the early history of the Tamil ...
It contain records of kings for whom no verifiable historic evidence survives. Many versions of this lineage exist. The main source is the Sangam literature – particularly, religious literature such as Periyapuranam, semi-biographical poems of the later Chola period such as the temple and cave inscriptions and left by medieval Cholas.
Sangam refers to the assembly of the highly learned people of the ancient Tamil land, with the primary aim of advancing the literature. There were historically three ...
The Early Pandyas of the Sangam period were one of the three main kingdoms of the Tamilakam (southern India), the other two being the Cholas, and Cheras dynasty. As with many other kingdoms around this period (earlier than 200 BCE), most of the information about the Early Pandyas come to modern historians mainly through literary sources and some epigraphic, archaeological and numismatic evidence.
4.1 Legendary Chola rulers. 4.2 Early Chola rulers (c. 300 BCE – 850 CE) 4.3 Imperial Chola Empire (850–1279 CE) ... Tamilakam in the 'Sangam Period.
Kochchenganan also figures in the legendary genealogy of the Chola copper-plate inscriptions of the tenth and eleventh centuries. The legend of a spider turning into the Chola monarch is the version found in the later texts as well as in the Periyapuranam , the great compendium of the Shaiva saints.
Legendary Tamil Sangams, legendary assemblies of Tamil scholars and poets in the remote past First Sangam; Second Sangam; Third Sangam; Sangam literature, a collection of Tamil literature and the earliest period of South Indian history, when the Tamil Sangams were held; Sangama dynasty, the first dynasty of the Vijayanagara Empire (c. 1336–1485)