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Mīnākṣī is a Sanskrit term meaning 'fish-eyed', [10] derived from the words mīna 'fish' and akṣī 'eye'. [11] She was also known by the Tamil name Taḍādakai 'fish-eyed one', mentioned in early historical account as a fierce, unmarried goddess as Meenakshi. [12] She is also known by the Tamil name Aṅgayaṟkaṇṇi or ...
Pattikaattu Ponnaiya (transl. Rural man Ponnaiya) is a 1973 Indian Tamil-language film, directed by B. S. Ranga. The film stars M. G. Ramachandran, Jayalalithaa and Rajasree. It was the last film to feature Ramachandran and Jayalalithaa together. The film was released on 10 August 1973. [1]
Shyamala Goli, Indian endurance swimmer; Shyamala Gopalan (1938–2009), Indian-American cancer researcher and civil rights activist; Shyamala Gopinath (born 1949), Indian bank executive; Syamala Kumari, Indian temple painter; Shyamala Pappu (1933–2016), Indian lawyer; Shyamala Rajender, plaintiff in the 1973 lawsuit Rajender v. University of ...
Savitri Devi (1905–1982), French-born Greek fascist, Nazi sympathizer, and spy; Shakuntala Devi (1929–2013), Indian mental calculator and writer; Shanti Devi (1926–1987), Indian woman who claimed to remember her previous life; Shanti Devi (Uttar Pradesh politician) (born 1937), Indian politician; Sheetal Devi (born 2007), Indian para-archer
The Kural text has a total of 9310 cirs made of 12,000 Tamil words, of which about 50 words are from Sanskrit and the remaining are Tamil original words. [89] A manual count has shown that there are in total 42,194 letters in the entire work, with the shortest ones (kurals 833 and 1304) containing 23 letters and the longest ones (kurals 957 and ...
It is also a Tamil name for the deity Vishnu, who is called Tirumal (திருமால்), and his consort Lakshmi, who is called Tirumakal (திருமகள்) in Tamil. [11] It also indicates "wealth", "respect", and "name" in Tamil.
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 earliest extant Tamil literary works and their commentaries celebrate the Pandiyan Kings for the organization of long-termed Tamil Sangams, which researched, developed and made amendments in Tamil language. Even though the name of the language which was developed by these Tamil Sangams is mentioned as Tamil, the period when the name "Tamil ...