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These poems deal with the various aspects of the courtship between the hero and the heroine. The poems are set in various landscapes (Tinai - திணை). [2] Each poem is subdivided and formatted into pattu or tens, a style found in much of Tamil literature such as Tirukkural, Bhakti movement poetry and elsewhere.
Translated to English by Professor A. Dakshinamurthy as 'Kuruntokai– An Anthology of Classical Tamil Poetry' [6] Translated to English by Dr.Jayanthasri Balakrishnan . It shall be noted that she was awarded doctorate in the early days of career for her study in the English renderings of the text.
Natrinai (Tamil: நற்றிணை meaning excellent tinai [1]), is a classical Tamil poetic work and traditionally the first of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) in the Sangam literature. [2] The collection – sometimes spelled as Natrinai [ 3 ] or Narrinai [ 4 ] – contains both akam (love) and puram (war, public life) category of poems.
Iraiyanar Akapporul is concerned with setting out the literary conventions that govern Tamil love poetry of the akam tradition. The conventions, as such, are taken from the poetics of the Sangam period. Thus a poem is a poetical snapshot of one instant in a relationship. This snapshot provides a glimpse into the lives of the couple which is in ...
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 ...
Akam (Tamil: அகம், akam) is one of two genres of Classical Tamil poetry that concerns with the subject of love, the other concerns the subject of war. It can also be translated as love and heroism. It is further subdivided into the five thinai. The type of love was divided into seven ranging from unrequited love to mismatched love.
Nedunalvadai contains 188 lines of poetry in the akaval metre. [4] It is a poem of complex and subtle artistic composition, its vividness and language has won it many superlatives, including one by the Tamil literature scholar Kamil Zvelebil, as "the best or one of the best of the lays of the [Sangam] bardic corpus". [4]
It is a story about premarital love. [3] Authored by Kapilar, it is the eighth poem in the Pattuppāṭṭu anthology. [4] The poem is generally dated to the classical period (2nd- to 3rd-century CE). [5] The Kurincippattu poem has 261 lines in akaval meter. It has 1,440 words, of which at least 19 are Sanskrit loan words. [6]