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The poems of this collection differ from the earlier works of the Eighteen Greater Texts (Patiṉeṇmēlkaṇakku), which are the oldest surviving Tamil poetry, in that the poems are written in the venpa meter and are relatively short in length. Naladiyar, having sung by 400 poets, is the only anthology in this collection.
Kavimani Desigavinayagam Pillai (27 July 1876 – 26 September 1954) was a Tamil poet born to Sivadhanu Pillai and Aadhilakshmi. He was born in the southern district of Tamil Nadu in Kanniyakumari district in a village called Theroor. Since the place was part of Travancore, he learnt Malayalam at School. He learnt Tamil in later years. [1]
Along with the Tirukkural, it is one of the first books published in Tamil, when it came to print from palm leaf manuscripts for the first time in 1812. [8] There is an old Tamil proverb praising the Nālaṭiyār that says " Nālaṭiyār and the Tirukkural are very good in expressing human thoughts just as the twigs of the banyan and the neem ...
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 ...
Ottakoothar (c. 12th century CE) was a Tamil court poet and minister to three Later Chola kings, namely Vikrama Chola, Kulotunga II and Rajaraja II. [1] He wrote poems in praise of these three kings.
The Tamil Literary Garden, is a Canadian literary organization and charity founded in 2001. The focus of this organization is on supporting translations of Tamil literature , sponsoring lecture series , commissioning publications, launching books and recognizing annually significant achievements in Tamil in a number of genres and fields.
The Purananuru is the most important Tamil corpus of Sangam era courtly poems, [8] and it has been a source of information on the political and social history of ancient Tamil Nadu. According to Hart and Heifetz, the Purananuru provides a view of the Tamil society before large-scale Indo-Aryan influences affected it. [2]
From 1946 till his death in 1961 he was the Head of the Tamil department. [2] [4] In 1955, he won the first ever Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his series of essays titled Tamil inbam. [5] In 1957, he was awarded a D. Litt degree (honoris causa). Sethu pillai was a scholar of Tamil and wrote more than twenty five books.