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Avvaiyar was a Tamil poet who lived during the period of Kambar and Ottakoothar during the reign of the Chola dynasty in the twelfth century. [1] She is often imagined as an old and intelligent lady by Tamil people. Many poems and the Avvai Kural, comprising 310 kurals in 31 chapters, belong to this period.
One of the best known Tamil works of this period is the Ramavatharam by Kamban who flourished during the reign of Kulottunga III. Ramavatharam is the greatest epic in Tamil Literature, and although the author states that he followed Valmiki, his work is not a mere translation or even an adaptation of the Sanskrit epic. Kamban imports into his ...
Tirumurai (Tamil: திருமுறை, meaning Holy Order) is a twelve-volume compendium of songs or hymns in praise of Shiva in the Tamil language from the 6th to the 11th century CE by various poets in Tamil Nadu. Nambiyandar Nambi compiled the first seven volumes by Appar, Sambandar, and Sundarar as Tevaram during the 12th
Musical troupes were accompanied by dancing girls in the city. Women prayed to Korravai goddess in temples seeking the safe return of their husbands (lines 48–52, 185–194). They would light lamps, offer flowers and rice with their prayers. [12] Lines 101–102 suggest that Tamil merchants traded with Greek-Romans (yavanas) for designer lamps.
Rama and Hanuman fighting Ravana, an album painting on paper from Tamil Nadu, ca 1820. The Mandapam at The Ranganathasamy Temple, Srirangam where Kambar is believed to have first recited the epic The Ramavataram , popularly referred to as Kamba Ramayanam , is a Tamil epic that was written by the Tamil poet Kambar during the 12th century.
It was compiled during the 12th century by Sekkilar. The Periya Puranam is part of the corpus of Shaiva canonical works. Sekkilar compiled and wrote the Periya Puranam or the Great Purana in Tamil about the life stories of the sixty-three Shaiva Nayanars, poets of the deity Shiva who composed the liturgical poems of the Tirumurai , and was ...
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A. H. Arden, A progressive grammar of the Tamil language, 5th edition, 1942. Schiffman, Harold F. (1998). A Reference Grammar of Spoken Tamil (PDF). Cambridge University Press. pp. 20– 21. ISBN 978-0-521-64074-9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 April 2024. Lehmann, Thomas. A Grammar of Modern Tamil. Pondicherry Institute of Linguistics ...