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It was especially widespread during the Sangam age. The Tamil kings, in order to save their honour, and prestige, were prepared to meet their death facing North ('Vatakkiruttal'), and never would they turn their back in battle. It was a Tamil martial vow (Tamil: நோன்பு, nōnpu, 'vow').
The others are guides to religious devotion (Murugan) and to major towns, sometimes mixed with akam- or puram-genre poetry. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The Pattuppāṭṭu collection is a later dated collection, with its earliest layer composed sometime between 2nd and 3rd century CE, the middle between 2nd and 4th century, while the last layer sometime ...
The early Sangam poetry diligently follows two meters, while the later Sangam poetry is a bit more diverse. [26] [27] The two meters found in the early poetry are akaval and vanci. [28] The fundamental metrical unit in these is the acai (metreme [29]), itself of two types – ner and nirai.
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. With the details of the first two Sangams remaining obscure, all the available Sangam works come from the Third Sangam, which began sometime
Eelattu Poothanthevanar was one of the earliest known classical Ceylon (present day Sri Lanka) Tamil poets from the Sangam period.He hailed from the ancient international port of Manthai (Manthottam/ Manthoddam in Tamil, Manthota in derived Sinhalese) in Ceylon, the ruins of which are in present-day Mannar District, Sri Lanka. [1]
Tiṇaimālai Nūṟṟaimpatu contains 154 poems written by the poet Kanimeytaviyar. The poems of Tiṇaimālai Nūṟṟaimpatu deals with the subjective ( agam ) concepts. Agam in the Sangam literature denotes the subject matters that deal with the intangibles of life such as human emotions, love, separation, lovers' quarrels, etc.
The poems of Kainnilai are categoriesed into twelve poems for each of the five thinai, or landscape of Sangam poetry and describe in detail the situation and emotions specific to each landscape. The five landscapes of Sangam poetry are mullai – forest, kurinji – mountains, marutham – farmland, paalai – arid land and neithal – seashore.
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