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Pattupattu; Ten Tamil Idylls A History of Tamil Literature with Texts and Translations from the Earliest Times to 600 A.D. The Tamils Eighteen Hundred Years Ago

Tamil literature refers to literature in the Tamil language. Tamil literature has a rich and long literary tradition spanning more than two thousand years. The oldest extant works show signs of maturity indicating an even longer period of evolution. Contributors to the Tamil literature mainly were Tamil people from Tamil Nadu, however, there have been notable contributions from European authors. The history of Tamil literature follows the history of Tamil Nadu, closely following the social and political trends of various periods. These are: The Major Eighteen Anthology Series comprising the Ettuthokai (Eight Anthologies) and the Pattupattu (Ten Idylls) and the Five Great Epics. Tolkaappiyam, a commentary on grammar, phonetics, rhetoric, and poetics, is dated from this period. A ninth anthology, Pattupattu, consists of 10 idylls that present a picture of early Tamil life. Sangam writings are possibly unique in early Indian literature, which is almost entirely religious. The poems are concerned with two main topics: those of the first five collections are on love (akam), and those of the next two are on heroism (puram), including the praise of kings and their deeds. The poems belonging to Sangam literature were composed by Tamil poets, both men and women, from various professions and classes of society. These poems were later collected into various anthologies, edited, and with colophons added by anthologists and annotators around 1000 AD. Sangam literature fell out of popular memory soon thereafter, until they were rediscovered in the 19th century by scholars such as Arumuga Navalar, C. W. Thamotharampillai and U. V. Swaminatha Iyer. Navalar brought the first Sangam text into print; this was the Thirumurukaattuppadai of Pattupattu (one of The Ten Idylls), in 1851. Pillai brought out the first of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuththokai) of the Sangam classics, the Kaliththokai, in 1887. Swaminathaiyar published his first print of Paththupattu in 1889. - Paá¹á¹iṉappÄlai PerumpÄṇÄṟṟuppaá¹ai PoruṇarÄṟṟuppaá¹ai CiṟupÄṇÄṟṟuppaá¹ai Pattupattu - Ten Tamil Idylls, J. V. C****aih, Tamil University, Thanjavur, 1946 - poem of the Pattupattu anthology. Tirumurugarruppatai follows the Arruppadtai style, a device used by most of the books in the Pattupattu anthology. The - musical tradition found in the ancient Sangam books such as Ettuthokai and Pattupattu. The early narrative poem Cilappatikaram, belonging to the post-Sangam - major anthology series, contains: Ettuthokai, the eight anthologies, and Pattupattu, the ten idyls. The songs in the Patiṉe Pathupattu (Tamil: பதà¯à®¤à¯à®ªà¯à®ªà®¾à®Ÿà¯à®Ÿà¯; PattuppÄá¹á¹u; ten Idylls) is an anthology of ten mid-length books and one of the oldest surviving works of Tamil poetry. This collection is considered part of Sangam Literature and is dated to c. 300 BCE â“ c. 200 CE. This collection had been lost for some centuries until U.V.Swaminatha Iyer travelled around Tamil Nadu in the late nineteenth century to collect ancient palm-leaf manuscripts. It is not known who made this collection or the exact date it was collected 10. Tamil Brahmi Inscriptions of the Sangam Age â“ Iravatham Mahadevan. 11. The Eight Anthologies: A study in Early Tamil Literature â“ John Ralston Marr. 12. Tamil Heroic Poems â“ G. U. Pope. 13. Poems of Love and War: From the Eight Anthologies and Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil â“ A. K. Ramanujan. 14. Kuruntokai â“ Shanmugam Pillai and David E. Ludden. 15. Reference Grammar of Classical Tamil Poetry: 150 B.C. â“ Pre 5th/6th Century A.D. â“ V. S. Rajam. 55. Pattupattu: Ten Tamil Idylls. By J.V. Chelliah, 1985. Tamil University Thanjavur. Tamil Sangams Main article: Tamil Sangams According to the compilers of the Sangam works such as Nakkeeran, the Tamil Sang ams were academies, where Tamil poets and authors are said to have gathered peri odically to publish their works. The legends claim that the Pandya rulers of the mythical cities of 'South' Madurai, Kapatapuram and Madurai to have patronized the three Sangams. V. this was the Thirumurukaattuppadai of Pattupattu (one of Th e Ten Idylls). V. in 1851. Documents Similar To Tamil Literature.txt.