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The Ramavataram, popularly referred to as Kamba Ramayanam, is a Tamil epic that was written by the Tamil poet Kambar during the 12th century. Based on Valmiki 's Ramayana (which is in Sanskrit ), the story describes the legend of King Rama of Ayodhya. However, the Ramavataram is different from the Sanskrit version in many aspects – both in ...
Thirukutrala kuravanji. Thirukutrala Kuravanji is a classic Tamil language poem composed by Thirigudarasapa Kavirayar around 1600–1700 CE. The poem is about a young girl who dreams about romantic love of Eesan ( lord Shiva ), manifested as Kutralanathar, a hero dwelling at the Kutralam temple in modern-day Tamil Nadu .
The Tevaram ( Tamil: தேவாரம், Tēvāram ), also spelled Thevaram, denotes the first seven volumes of the twelve-volume collection Tirumurai, a Shaiva narrative of epic and Puranic heroes, as well as a hagiographic account of early Shaiva saints set in devotional poetry. [ 1] The Tevaram volumes contain the works of the three most ...
Neṭunalvāṭai (Tamil: நெடுநல்வாடை, lit. "good long north wind", metonymically "cold season") is an ancient Tamil poem in the Sangam ...
'One whose words are like gems'), [1] was a 9th-century Tamil saint and poet who wrote Thiruvasagam, a book of Shaiva hymns. Speculated to have been a minister to the Pandya king Varagunavarman II (c. 862 CE–885 CE) [ 1 ] (also called Arimarthana Pandiyan ), he lived in Madurai .
Tamil is a consistently head-final language. The verb comes at the end of the clause, with a typical word order of subject–object–verb (SOV). [ 119][ 120] However, word order in Tamil is also flexible, so that surface permutations of the SOV order are possible with different pragmatic effects.
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 and Athiyamān. She wrote 59 poems in the Puṟanāṉūṟu. [1] A plaque on a statue of the poet in Chennai suggests the first century BCE for her birthdate.