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South India in Sangam Period. In Old Tamil language, the term Tamilakam (Tamiḻakam, Purananuru 168. 18) referred to the whole of the ancient Tamil-speaking area, [web 1] corresponding roughly to the area known as southern India today, consisting of the territories of the present-day Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, parts of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
D dissertation 'Sanga Ilakkiyangal Unarthum Manitha Uravugal'(1997), which was published as a book in 2001 deals elaborately with all the kinships between men and women, rulers and the ruled, parents and children, masters and servants, crowned kings and the chiefs, patrons and bards including poets, individuals and the society, based on ...
Cilappatikāram is an example of the claim that folk songs institutionalised literary culture with the best-maintained cultures rooted in folk origin. [30] Manimekalai is an epic in ahaval metre and is noted for its simple and elegant description of natural scenery. [ 31 ]
Contributors to the Tamil literature are mainly from Tamil people from south India, including the land now comprising Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Eelam Tamils from Sri Lanka, as well as the Tamil diaspora. The history of Tamil literature follows the history of Tamil Nadu , closely following the social, economical, political and cultural trends of ...
Word index of Sangam literature. Sangam refers to the assembly of the highly learned people of the ancient Tamil land, with the primary aim of advancing the literature.There were historically three Sangams.
At the end of each verse is information about the poetic theme referred to with the Tamil term துறை (turai), rhythm with the Tamil word வண்ணம் (Vannam), metre (தூக்கு, Thookku) and the name of the verse, known as பெயர் (peyar). This type of information is rarely found in other classical Tamil literature.
Each poem is subdivided and formatted into pattu or tens, a style found in much of Tamil literature such as Tirukkural, Bhakti movement poetry and elsewhere. This may have been, according to Zvelebil, a Sanskrit literature (sataka style) influence on this work. [6] However, the poetry shows relatively few loan words from Sanskrit. [6]
Arisil Kilar (Tamil: அரிசில் கிழார்) was a Tamil poet of the Sangam period. He has authored 20 verses in the Sangam literature , including verse 13 of the Tiruvalluva Maalai .