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History. Prathaapa Mudaliaar Charithram ("The Life of Prathaapa Mudaliaar"), written in 1857 and published in 1879, was the first novel in the Tamil language. The novel does not involve historical characters or events but is set in royal times. Penned by Maayuram Vedanaayakam Pillai, it was a landmark in Tamil literature, which had hitherto ...
Tamil books of law ( Tamil : தமிழ் நீதி நூல்கள், Tamiḻ nīti nūlkaḷ) or the more correct, Classical Tamil phrase ( Tamil : தமிழற நூற்கள், Tamiḻaṟa nūṟkaḷ ), are didactic Tamil works aimed to promote discipline (ஒழுக்கம்) among people. They were composed with ...
The five Tamil epics Seevaka-chintamani, Silappatikaram, Manimekalai, Kundalakesi and Valayapathi are collectively known as The Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature. There were a number of books written on Tamil grammar. Yapperungalam and Yapperungalakkarigai were two works on prosody by the Jain ascetic Amirtasagara.
Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram (English: The Life of Prathapa Mudaliar ), ,written in 1857 and published in 1879, was the first novel in the Tamil language. [1] Penned by Samuel Vedanayagam Pillai (1826-1889), it was a landmark in Tamil literature, which had hitherto seen writings only in poetry. The book gave birth to a new literary genre and ...
The poems of this collection differ from the earlier works of the Eighteen Greater Texts (Patiṉeṇmēlkaṇakku), which are the oldest surviving Tamil poetry, in that the poems are written in the venpa meter and are relatively short in length. Naladiyar, having sung by 400 poets, is the only anthology in this collection.
Ancient Tamil music. edit. Naṉṉūl ( Tamil: நன்னூல்) is a work on Tamil grammar written by a Jain ascetic [ 1] Pavananthi Munivar around 13th century CE. [ 2] It is the most significant work on Tamil grammar after Tolkāppiyam. [ 2] The work credits Western Ganga vassal king Seeya Gangan of Kolar with patronising it. [ 3][ 4]
Kuṟuntokai. Kuṟuntokai ( Tamil: குறுந்தொகை, meaning the short-collection[ 1]) is a classical Tamil poetic work and traditionally the second of the Eight Anthologies ( Ettuthokai) in the Sangam literature. [ 2] The collection belongs to the akam (love) category, and each poem consists of 4 to 8 lines each (except poem 307 ...
The Book of Aṟam contains the first 38 chapters of the Kural text, all dealing with fundamental virtue. The first four chapters, known as the introductory chapters, include 40 couplets on God, rain, characteristics of a righteous person, and assertion of virtue. The remaining chapters with 340 couplets are addressed to the common man or a ...