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Venmurasu (Tamil: வெண்முரசு Veṇmuracu; transl. Sacred Proclamation) is a Tamil language novel by the writer Jeyamohan. It is a modern re-narration of the Indian classical epic, the Mahābhārata. Consisting of 26 volumes spanning 22,400 pages, Venmurasu is considered one of the longest novels ever published. [2]
Bharathy introduced a new poetic style into the somewhat rigid style of Tamil poetry writing, which had followed the rules set down in the Tolkaappiyam. His puthukkavithai (Lit.:new poetry) broke the rules and gave poets the freedom to express themselves. He also wrote Tamil prose in the form of commentaries, editorials, short stories and novels.
The process of writing prosaic commentaries to the itihasas, puranas, and other Indian epics, which were originally written in verse, began in the early 19th century. [31] Exegeses to epics such as the Ramayana , the Mahabaratha , Periya Puranam , and Kanda Puranam , began to appear in Tamil, and these came to be known as vasanam or dialogic ...
Tamil employs agglutinative grammar, where suffixes are used to mark noun class, number, and case, verb tense and other grammatical categories. Tamil's standard metalinguistic terminology and scholarly vocabulary is itself Tamil, as opposed to the Sanskrit that is standard for most Indo-Aryan languages. [102] [103]
Tamil has three simple tenses – past, present, and future – indicated by simple suffixes, and a series of perfects, indicated by compound suffixes. Mood is implicit in Tamil, and is normally reflected by the same morphemes which mark tense categories. These signal whether the happening spoken of in the verb is unreal, possible, potential ...
The work is highly cherished in the Tamil culture, as reflected by its twelve traditional titles: Tirukkuṟaḷ (the sacred kural), Uttaravedam (the ultimate Veda), Tiruvalluvar (eponymous with the author), Poyyamoli (the falseless word), Vayurai valttu (truthful praise), Teyvanul (the divine book), Potumarai (the common Veda), Valluva Maalai ...
The ancient Tamil country had its own system of music called Tamil Pannisai. [114] Sangam literature such as the Silappatikaram from 2nd century CE describes music notes and instruments. [115] [116] A Pallava inscription dated to the 7th century CE has one of the earliest surviving examples of Indian music in notation.
Instead of writing like in modern days without any markers, for example (Tamil: அது, romanized: Atu), it was written with a preceding ஃ, like – Tamil: அஃது, romanized: Aḥtu. Another archaic Tamil letter ஂ, represented by a small hollow circle and called Aṉuvara, is the Anusvara.