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Indian epic poetry is the epic poetry written in the Indian subcontinent, traditionally called Kavya (or Kāvya; Sanskrit: काव्य, IAST: kāvyá).The Ramayana and the Mahabharata, which were originally composed in Sanskrit and later translated into many other Indian languages, and the Five Great Epics of Tamil literature and Sangam literature are some of the oldest surviving epic ...
Sangam literature: Tamil: 100 B.C.E - 250 C.E Tamil Nadu Buddhacharita: Buddhism: Life of Shakyamuni Buddha: Sanskrit: Ashvagosha: Kanishka: 100 [citation needed] Purushapura: Peshawar: Shatkhandagama: Jainism: Prakrit: Dharasena: 1st century BCE Mudabidri Karnataka Periplus of the Erythrean Sea: A naval guide to Indian commerce. Greek: 0-100 ...
[web 3] It was named after the literature of poets and scholars of the legendary Sangam academies centered in the city of Madurai. [28] In the period between 300 BCE and 300 CE, Tamilakam was ruled by the three Tamil dynasties of Pandya, Chola and Chera, and a few independent chieftains, the Velir. The evidence on the early history of the Tamil ...
Agathiyar (), Chairman of first Tamil Sangam, at Madurai in the Pandiya kingdom.Statue of Agastya in the Tamil Thai (Mother Tamil) temple in Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India. The Tamil Sangams (Tamil: சங்கம் caṅkam, Old Tamil 𑀘𑀗𑁆𑀓𑀫𑁆, from Sanskrit saṅgha) were three legendary gatherings of Tamil scholars and poets that, according to traditional Tamil accounts ...
Perumal (Vishnu) was the only deity who enjoyed the status of Paramporul during the Sangam age. The reference to Mukkol Bhagavars in Sangam literature indicates that only Vaishnavaite saints holding Tridanda existed during the age and Perumal was glorified as the supreme deity, whose "divine lotus feet can burn all our evils and grant moksha ...
Post-Sangam poets (200 AD to 1000 AD) Thiruvalluvar ([fl.] c. 2nd – 8th century AD), poet who wrote the Thirukkural , an ethical work Ilango Adigal (300 to 700 AD), wrote the epic Cilappathikaaram
[7] [8] [9] According to Kamil Zvelebil – a Tamil literature and history scholar, the most acceptable range for the majority of Sangam literature is 100 BCE to 250 CE, based on the linguistic, prosodic and quasi-historic allusions within the texts and the colophons. [10]
The anthologies and poems of the Sangam literature have numerous references and verses to Murugan – also known as Subrahmanya, Kumara, Skanda, Kartikeya in other parts of India. [4] The Tirumurukarruppatai poem is exclusively about different manifestations and shrines of Murugan. It describes different major temples dedicated to him in the ...