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    The Sangam literature (Tamil: சங்க இலக்கியம், caṅka ilakkiyam) historically known as 'the poetry of the noble ones' (Tamil: சான்றோர் செய்யுள், Cāṉṟōr...
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    of Tamil literature were written (also known as Sangam literature), dealing with love, war, governance, trade and bereavement. The name Sangam and the...
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    Vedas (redirect from Vedic literature)
    the Maha Puranas. Vedas finds its earliest literary mention in the Sangam literature dated to the 5th century BCE. The Vedas were read by almost every...
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  • Sanskrit literature developed rapidly during the first few centuries of the first millennium BCE, as did the Pāli Canon and Tamil Sangam literature.[citation...
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    economical, political and cultural trends of various periods. The early Sangam literature, dated before 300 BCE, contain anthologies of various poets dealing...
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    Kamba Ramayanam). The age of Sangam literature (Tamil: சங்க இலக்கியம், caṅka ilakkiyam) refers to the ancient Tamil literature roughly extends between 300...
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    Avvaiyar (Tamil: ஔவையார்) was a Tamil poet who lived during the Sangam period and is said to have had cordial relations with the Tamil chieftains Vēl Pāri...
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  • past Sangam period, the earliest period of South Indian history, when the Tamil Sangams were held Sangam literature, a collection of Tamil literature First...
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  • Vellalar. The earliest occurrence of the term Velaalar (வேளாளர்) in Sangam literature is in Paripadal where it is used in the sense of a landowner. The...
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    and the Indra of the current Manvantara is called Purandhara. The Sangam literature of the Tamil language contains more stories about Indra by various...
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    with the mullai tiṇai (pastoral landscape) in the Tolkappiyam. Tamil Sangam literature (200 BCE to 500 CE) mentions Mayon or the "dark one" and as the Supreme...
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    sometimes either, action qua action, individualizing, driven, dynamic). Sangam literature mentions several Hindu gods and Vedic practices around Ancient Tamilakam...
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    The Early Cholas were a Tamil kingdom of the Chola Dynasty - pre and post Sangam period (600 BCE–300 CE). It was one of the three main kingdoms of Tamilakam...
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    well as a Post Sangam period. However, all Sangam literature available to us dates from the third Sangam period, as well as the Post Sangam period. Regardless...
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    constitutes religion, moral duty and way of life. Several works of the Sangam and post-Sangam period, many of which are of Hindu or Jain origin, emphasizes on...
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  • 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...
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    the Sangam age. He is also known as Māyavan, Māmiyon, Netiyōn, and Māl in Sangam literature. A reference to "Mukkol Pakavars" in Sangam literature indicates...
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    rulers through ruling and coronation rights. Medieval inscriptions and Sangam literature claim that they belong to the Yadu dynasty. Velir may refer to master...
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    earliest period of Tamil literature, Sangam literature, is dated from c. 300 BC until AD 300. It has the oldest extant literature among Dravidian languages...
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    Vaishnavism in Ancient Tamilakam (category Sangam literature)
    Tamil Sangam literature dating back to the 5th century BCE. Maha Vishnu, also known as Perumal, is notably the most frequently mentioned deity in Sangam Literature...
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    of the Kurinji region whose cult gained immense popularity. Tamil Sangam literature has several works attributed to Murugan such as Tirumurukāṟṟuppaṭai...
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    and traditionally the fifth of the Eight Anthologies (Ettutokai) in Sangam literature. Kamil Zvelebil states that the hymns dedicated to Vishnu and Murugan...
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  • Tolkāppiyam (category Sangam literature)
    Ur-text likely relied on some unknown even older literature. The Tolkappiyam belongs to second Sangam period. Iravatham Mahadevan dates the Tolkappiyam...
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    (male celestial musicians) and Apsaras (female celestial dancers). Sangam literature of Tamil (300BC-300CE) describes the offerings for devas. In Silapathikaram...
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  • Agattiyam (category Tamil-language literature)
    taught in the First Sangam, by Agattiyar (Agastya) to twelve students. Agastya is one of the seven revered rishi of Vedic literature, mentioned in the Rigveda...
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    device that was characteristic of love poetry in classical Tamil Sangam literature. The core of the device was the categorisation of poems into different...
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    Cilappatikaram (category Tamil-language literature)
    other characters of the story are mentioned or alluded to in the Sangam literature such as in the Naṟṟiṇai and later texts such as the Kovalam Katai...
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    Ancient Tamil music (category Tamil-language literature)
    the Carnatic music during the Sangam period spanning from 500 BCE to 200 CE. Many poems of the classical Sangam literature were set to music. There are...
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  • Eight Anthologies (category Sangam literature)
    the literature, is a classical Tamil poetic work that forms part of the Eighteen Greater Texts (Patiṉeṇmēlkaṇakku) anthology series of the Sangam Literature...
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    are recorded history of early Chola rulers of Sangam period in Tamil literature and Sangam literature. The other source of early Chola history is found...
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