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Following is the list of recipients of Sahitya Akademi translation prizes for their works written in Kashmiri. The award, as of 2019, consisted of ₹ 50,000. [ 1 ]
The origin of this word cannot be conclusively attributed to Malayalam or Tamil. Congee, porridge, water with rice; uncertain origin, possibly from Tamil kanji (கஞ்சி), [ 7] Telugu or Kannada gañji, or Malayalam kaññi (കഞ്ഞി). [citation needed] Alternatively, possibly from Gujarati, [ 8] which is not a Dravidian language.
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Politics. Tamil portal. v. t. e. Tamil culture refers to the culture of the Tamil people. The Tamils speak the Tamil language, one of the oldest languages in India with more than two thousand years of written history. Archaeological evidence from the Tamilakam region indicates a continuous history of human occupation for more than 3,800 years.
Hinduism. The Periya Purāṇam ( Tamil: பெரிய புராணம்), that is, the great purana or epic, sometimes called Tiruttontarpuranam ("Tiru-Thondar-Puranam", the Purana of the Holy Devotees), is a Tamil poetic account depicting the lives of the sixty-three Nayanars, the canonical poets of Tamil Shaivism. It was ...
The epic alludes to this first phase of life as (lines 2.112–117), "Like snakes coupled in the heat of passion, or Kama and Rati smothered in each other's arms, so Kovalan and Kannakai lived in happiness past speaking, spent themselves in every pleasure, thinking: we live on earth but a few days", according to R Parthasarathy's translation. [45]
The Tamil language of Dravidian family has absorbed many loanwords from Indo-Aryan family, predominantly from Prakrit, Pali and Sanskrit, [1] ever since the early 1st millennium CE, when the Sangam period Chola kingdoms became influenced by spread of Jainism, Buddhism and early Hinduism . Many of these loans are obscured by adaptions to Tamil ...
Maṇimēkalai(Tamil: மணிமேகலை, lit. 'jewelled belt, girdle of gems'), also spelled Manimekhalaior Manimekalai, is a TamilBuddhist[1]epic composed by Kulavāṇikaṉ Seethalai Sataṉarprobably somewhere between the 2nd century to the 6th century.[2] It is an "anti-love story",[3][4]a sequel to the "love story" in the earliest ...