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Bharathanatyam dancer with antique temple jewellery. Tamil people have historically been connoisseurs of fine golden jewellery, which has a history predating the Sangam period in the Indian subcontinent. Ancient Tamil literature lists out the different types of jewellery worn by women historically from head to toe. Apart from gold, jewellery ...
The List of Tamil Proverbs consists of some of the commonly used by Tamil people and their diaspora all over the world. [1] There were thousands and thousands of proverbs were used by Tamil people, it is harder to list all in one single article, the list shows a few proverbs.
The Sengol (Tamil: செங்கோல்) is a gold-plated, silver sceptre that is installed in New Parliament House in New Delhi, India. [1] The sceptre was originally handed over to Jawaharlal Nehru , the first Prime Minister of India , by a Tamil Adheenam in a ceremony as a symbol of Transfer of Power on the evening before the ...
Tamil inscriptions in caves, Mangulam, Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, 3rd century BCE. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] There are five caves in the hill of which six inscriptions are found in four caves. [ 16 ] The inscriptions mentions that workers of Nedunchezhiyan I , a Pandyan king of Sangam period, (c. 270 BCE) made stone beds for Jain monks.
By far, the most important source of ancient Tamil history is the corpus of Tamil poems, referred to as Sangam literature, generally dated from the last centuries of the pre-Christian era to the early centuries of the Christian era. [2] [3] [4] It consists of 2,381 known poems, with a total of over 50,000 lines, written by 473 poets.
The smithy, or the Panikkalari (literally: workplace), played an important role in the lives of ancient Tamilians (people of Tamil Nadu, India) Some of the essential items forged or repaired in the smithy include weapons of war, tools such as the plough, domestic utensils and the iron wheel.
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Over the years, the Kundan jewellery of the courts was successfully copied in silver in Rajasthan, Bihar and the Punjab and became popular with the common man. [6] The method is believed to have originated in the royal courts of Rajasthan and Gujarat. It is one of the older forms of jewellery made and worn in India.