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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]
Avvaiyar (Tamil: ஔவையார்) was a Tamil poet who lived during the Sangam period and is said to have had cordial relations with the Tamil chieftains Vēl Pāri and Athiyamān. She wrote 59 poems in the Puṟanāṉūṟu. [1] A plaque on a statue of the poet in Chennai suggests the first century BCE for her birthdate.
Thoditthalai Viluthandinar became to be called so owing to the phrase "Thoditthalai Vilutthandu" used in the verse that he composed in Purananuru. [1] This was the only verse that describes the boisterous acts of young men.
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 ...
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.
His name Kaniyan implies that he was an Kaala Kanithar (kaala kanitham in Tamil literally means mathematics of date, time and place). Kaniyan was born and brought up in Mahibalanpatti, a village panchayat in Tamil Nadu's Sivaganga district. He composed two poems in Purananuru and Natrinai.
Madurai Aruvai Vanigan Ilavettanar (Tamil: மதுரை அறுவை வாணிகன் இளவேட்டனார்) was a poet of the Sangam period ...
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Tamil history from Sangam literature: ... Mugaiyalur Sirukarunthumbiyar has composed two verses in the Purananuru ...