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Coat of Arms of Tlaquepaque is a Spanish-shaped shield with two blue and gold fields interspersed with a helmet on the head. In one quarter is the pottery of the Tlaquepaque artisans, the other quarter has the order of Saint Francis of Asissi, in the lower left quarter a well and the lower right quarter has the keys of Saint Peter with a ...
Tirumurai (Tamil: திருமுறை, meaning Holy Order) is a twelve-volume compendium of songs or hymns in praise of Shiva in the Tamil language from the 6th to the 11th century CE by various poets in Tamil Nadu. Nambiyandar Nambi compiled the first seven volumes by Appar, Sambandar, and Sundarar as Tevaram during the 12th century.
Thiruvasagam (Tamil: திருவாசகம், romanized: tiruvācakam, lit. 'sacred sayings') is a volume of Tamil hymns composed by the ninth century Shaivite bhakti poet Manikkavasagar. It contains 51 compositions and constitutes the eighth volume of the Tirumurai, the sacred anthology of the Tamil Shaiva Siddhanta.
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The poem is divided into 10 sections (pattu) of about 100 verses each.Each hundred is divided into 10 decads (tiruvaymoli) 28 of 10 verses (pasuram) each.A special feature of the poem is that it is in the style of an antati, that is, the last words of one verse forms the opening words of the next one.
According to G. John Samuel, the "Netunalvatai belongs to the great corpus of ancient classical erotic poems of the world which include the beautiful love poems of the Grecian world, the Song of songs of the Hebraic world, the ancient pastoral poems of the Latin literature and the Muktaka poems of the Sanskrit tradition". [7]
He was born on 13 September 1899 and died on 8 May 1951. He is popular for translating the Sri Lankan national anthem into Tamil which is an official language of the country along with Sinhalese. Translation was officially accepted from 1950 and is still being used in areas where Tamil is widely spoken, especially in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka.
Gaana songs are performed at weddings, stage shows, political rallies, and funerals. Performers sing about a wide range of topics, but the essence of gaana is said to be "angst and melancholy" based in life's struggles. [2] In the past few decades, the genre has entered the music of the mainstream Tamil film industry and gained popularity.