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  2. Perumpāṇāṟṟuppaṭai - Wikipedia

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    The poem has Several Mentions Of Vishnu and his temples present in Kanchipuram, [6] It also refers Lord Vishnu as the supreme god of the world and Brahma was born from the navel of Maha Vishnu. [ 7 ] The Perumpāṇāṟṟuppaṭai poem, also referred to as Perumpanattrupadai , [ 8 ] is named after perumpanar – a class of minstrels who sang ...

  3. Category:Epic poems in Tamil - Wikipedia

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  4. Iraiyanar Akapporul - Wikipedia

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    Iraiyanar Akapporul is concerned with setting out the literary conventions that govern Tamil love poetry of the akam tradition. The conventions, as such, are taken from the poetics of the Sangam period. Thus a poem is a poetical snapshot of one instant in a relationship. This snapshot provides a glimpse into the lives of the couple which is in ...

  5. Akanaṉūṟu - Wikipedia

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    Man size sculpture of Sri Rama in Srivaikuntanathan Perumal temple located in Tamil Nadu.. The Akananuru (Tamil: அகநானூறு, Akanāṉūṟu, literally "four hundred [poems] in the akam genre"), sometimes called Nedunthokai (lit. "anthology of long poems"), is a classical Tamil poetic work and one of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) in the Sangam literature. [1]

  6. Kural (poetic form) - Wikipedia

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    Veṇpā is a closely related family of very strict [6] Tamil verse forms. They differ chiefly in the number of standard lines that occur before the final short line. In kuṟaḷ-veṇpā (or simply "kural") a single 4-foot ("standard") line is followed by a final 3-foot ("short") line, resulting in a 7-foot couplet. [7]

  7. Paripāṭal - Wikipedia

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    The poems also mention temples and shrines, thereby suggesting that the Tamil people had already built temples for Vishnu and Murugan in the Sangam era. [12] The Paripatal anthology is likely a late Sangam literature, states Zvelebil, separated from the earliest Sangam work by at least three centuries.

  8. Venpa - Wikipedia

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    Venpa or Venba (வெண்பா in Tamil) is a form of classical Tamil poetry. Classical Tamil poetry has been classified based upon the rules of metric prosody. [1] Such rules form a context-free grammar. Every venba consists of between two and twelve lines.

  9. Ten Idylls - Wikipedia

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    The others are guides to religious devotion (Murugan) and to major towns, sometimes mixed with akam- or puram-genre poetry. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The Pattuppāṭṭu collection is a later dated collection, with its earliest layer composed sometime between 2nd and 3rd century CE, the middle between 2nd and 4th century, while the last layer sometime ...