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The Sangam literature is the historic evidence of indigenous literary developments in South India in parallel to Sanskrit, and the classical status of the Tamil language. While there is no evidence for the first and second mythical Sangams, the surviving literature attests to a group of scholars centered around the ancient Madurai (Maturai ...
The five Tamil epics Seevaka-chintamani, Silappatikaram, Manimekalai, Kundalakesi and Valayapathi are collectively known as The Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature. There were a number of books written on Tamil grammar. Yapperungalam and Yapperungalakkarigai were two works on prosody by the Jain ascetic Amirtasagara.
Agathiyar (), Chairman of first Tamil Sangam, at Madurai in the Pandiya kingdom.Statue of Agastya in the Tamil Thai (Mother Tamil) temple in Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India. The Tamil Sangams (Tamil: சங்கம் caṅkam, Old Tamil 𑀘𑀗𑁆𑀓𑀫𑁆, from Sanskrit saṅgha) were three legendary gatherings of Tamil scholars and poets that, according to traditional Tamil accounts ...
The Sangam landscape ( Tamil: அகத்திணை "inner classification") is the name given to a poetic device that was characteristic of love poetry in classical Tamil Sangam literature. The core of the device was the categorisation of poems into different tiṇai s or modes, depending on the nature, location, mood and type of ...
There are literary, archaeological, epigraphic and numismatic sources of ancient Tamil history. The foremost among these sources is the Sangam literature, generally dated to 5th century BCE to 3rd century CE. The poems in Sangam literature contain vivid descriptions of the different aspects of life and society in Tamilakam during this age ...
Tamil books of law ( Tamil : தமிழ் நீதி நூல்கள், Tamiḻ nīti nūlkaḷ) or the more correct, Classical Tamil phrase ( Tamil : தமிழற நூற்கள், Tamiḻaṟa nūṟkaḷ ), are didactic Tamil works aimed to promote discipline (ஒழுக்கம்) among people. They were composed with ...
Education was considered important in Ancient Tamil as they considered the mind of the uneducated to be an "abode of darkness". The sangam period of acquiring knowledge was during youth. [1] [2] The rulers and aristocrats of ancient Tamilakam were always conscious of their duties to their country. They considered development of education as an ...
The exegesis to the work Iraiyanar Kalaviyal is considered the first commentary in the Tamil literary tradition. [9] According to A. M. Paramasivanandhan, it is the first prosaic commentary to a composition in verse. [9] Iraiyanar Kalaviyal was passed on orally to nine generations from Nakkiranar till Nilakandanar.