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The Purananuru's reference to Sita being kidnapped by evil king Ravana is the earliest mention of the Ramayana in Tamil literature. [54] [55] The earliest reference to the Ramayana epic in Tamil literature is found in the Purananuru 378, attributed to the poet UnPodiPasunKudaiyar, written in praise of the Chola king IIamchetchenni.
Thoditthalai Viluthandinar became to be called so owing to the phrase "Thoditthalai Vilutthandu" used in the verse that he composed in Purananuru. [1] This was the only verse that describes the boisterous acts of young men.
The Forest Book of the Rāmāyaṇa of Kampan̲, (with Hank Heifetz), University of California Press, 1989. ISBN 0-520-06088-1. The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom: An Anthology of Poems from Classical Tamil, the Purananuru. (with Hank Heifetz), Columbia University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-231-11563-6. Selected articles
Tamil tradition mentions academies of poets that composed classical literature over thousands of years before the common era, a belief that scholars consider a myth. Some scholars date the Sangam literature between c. 300 BCE and 300 CE, [ 6 ] while others variously place this early classical Tamil literature period a bit later and more ...
His name Kaniyan implies that he was an Kaala Kanithar (kaala kanitham in Tamil literally means mathematics of date, time and place). Kaniyan was born and brought up in Mahibalanpatti, a village panchayat in Tamil Nadu's Sivaganga district. He composed two poems in Purananuru and Natrinai.
Perunchithiranar has written 11 Sangam verses, including 10 in Purananuru (verses 158–163, 207, 208, 237, 238) and 1 in Tiruvalluva Maalai (verse 32). [ 2 ] See also
Kochchenganan (Kōccengaṇān [1]) Kochengat Cholan or Śengaṇān [1] (also spelt Senganan [2])(Tamil: சோழன் செங்கணான்) was one of the Tamil kings of the Early Cholas mentioned in Sangam literature. The only surviving details about his reign come from the fragmentary poems of Sangam in the Purananuru poems. Today ...
Madurai Aruvai Vanigan Ilavettanar (Tamil: மதுரை அறுவை வாணிகன் இளவேட்டனார்) was a poet of the Sangam period ...