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The Ten Idylls, known as Pattuppāṭṭu (Tamil: பத்துப்பாட்டு) or Ten Lays, is an anthology of ten longer poems in the Sangam literature ...
Dravidian languages include Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, and a number of other languages spoken mainly in South Asia. The list is by no means exhaustive. Some of the words can be traced to specific languages, but others have disputed or uncertain origins. Words of disputed or less certain origin are in the "Dravidian languages" list.
Antati (Tamil: அந்தாதி, romanized: Antāti) is a unique kind of Tamil poetry, constructed such that the last or ending word of each verse becomes the first word of the next verse. [1] In some instances, the last word of the series of verses becomes the beginning of the very first verse, thus making the poem "a true garland of verses".
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.
Here is one example of Thayumanavar's presentation of the highest thoughts of philosophy in simple Tamil: aRuLāl evaiyum pār enRēn—attai aRiyāde chuTTi en aRivāle pārthēn; iRuLāna poruL kaNDadallāl ennaiyum kaNDilan ennaDi tozhi. meaning, See everything through Love, says my teacher. But in my ignorance, I probed through my intelligence.
Appathava Aattaya Pottutanga (transl. Grandma Has Been Wooed) is a 2021 Tamil language drama film directed by Stephen Rangaraj and produced by GB Studio Films.The film stars Chandrahasan, Sheela, Shanmugasundaram, Delhi Ganesh, and Kathadi Ramamurthy.
There are many Tamil loanwords in other languages.The Tamil language, primarily spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka, has produced loanwords in many different languages, including Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, English, Malay, native languages of Indonesia, Mauritian Creole, Tagalog, Russian, and Sinhala and Dhivehi.
The Tamil word asai roughly corresponds to syllable/a group of syllables. Asai is of two types - Nēr(lit. linear/straightforward) asai and Nirai(lit.waves) asai. •Sīr or cīr: Sīr is the metrical foot in Tamil poetry. •Thalai(lit. binding): The juxtaposition of metrical foot patterns.