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Ambidexterity is the ability to use both the right and left hand equally well. [1] [2] When referring to objects, the term indicates that the object is equally suitable for right-handed and left-handed people.
The Paripādal (Tamil: பரிபாடல், meaning the paripadal-metre anthology) is a classical Tamil poetic work and traditionally the fifth of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) in the Sangam literature. [10]
This marked the beginning of commentaries in Tamil literary tradition, which reached it peak between the 10th and 15th centuries. [10] Commentaries had a humble beginning in the history of Tamil literature. [11] The earliest commentaries were more of glossaries listing the meanings of difficult terms appearing in poetries. [11]
However, according to the Tamil literature scholar Kamil Zvelebil, the Tirumurukāṟṟuppaṭai and the Neṭunalvāṭai were likely authored by two different Nakkirar, and Nakkīraṉãr and the older Nakkīrar were different individual. [1] [3] It is uncertain as to which century Nakkiranar lived, much like the chronology of the Sangam ...
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 Ainthinai Aimpathu are categories into ten poems for each of the five thinai , or landscape of Sangam poetry and describe in detail the situation and emotions specific to ...
The Nālaṭiyār (Tamil: நாலடியார்) is a Tamil poetic work of didactic nature belonging to the Eighteen Lesser Texts (Patiṉeṇkīḻkaṇakku) anthology of Tamil literature. This belongs to the post Sangam period corresponding to between 100 and 500 CE. Nālaṭiyār contains 400 poems, each containing four lines. Every ...
The Kural remains the most reviewed work of the Tamil literature, with almost every scholar down the ages having written commentaries on it.Of the several hundred commentaries written on the didactic work over the centuries, the commentaries written by a group of ten medieval scholars are considered to have high literary value.
Inna Narpathu (Tamil: இன்னா நாற்பது, romanized: Iṉṉā Nāṟpatu, lit. 'The Forty Undesirable Things') is a Tamil poetic work of didactic nature belonging to the Eighteen Lesser Texts (Pathinenkilkanakku) anthology of Tamil literature. The poems of Inna Narpathu are written in the Venpa meter.