By V. V. S Aiyar
"It isn't really effortless to persuade the literary global at this past due hour of the day that there's, unsuspected by way of the higher a part of it, a Tamil poet who's useful to take rank with the best names in literature. it really is, although, my goal during this e-book to make an try and turn out that during the Ramayana of Kamban the realm possesses an epic which could problem comparability now not in simple terms with the 'Iliad' and the 'Aeneid', the 'Paradise misplaced' and the 'Mahabharata', yet with its unique itself, particularly, the 'Ramayana' of Valmiki. this isn't the language of mere patriotic enthusiasm. it really is an opinion that has grown slowly with the years and after deep and cautious examine. and that i desire to make the neutral reader upward thrust from the research of this monograph with a conviction of the reality of my competition and with a wish to be aware of extra of the poet than what he'll see exhibited in the pages of this volume...
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In addition to the tradition tran sm itted in the com m entary on the Iraiyanar Ahapporul, we have other traditions all of w hich m ark the following as th e accredited w orks of this Sangam : th e Ettutogai, the P attuppattu and the P a d in en -kilk-ka n a k ku , all which have come down to us today. , are others which are now only nam es to us, the works them selves having been lost long since. Space forbids us to offer anything but the briefest notice on the major works of the third Sangam.
Tam il L ite ra tu re —Its Classification. Am ong the D ravidian trib es of South India, th e Tam ils w ere the first to cu ltiv ate a literatu re. Indian gram m arians have divided Tam il lite ra tu re into three classes, nam ely—Iya l (b e lle s-le ttre s), Isai (M usic) and Natakarn (D ram a). As this essay is concerned m ainly Natafcun’ w ith ttle ^ te ra tu re Tam il, it w ill not be inopportune to first briefly say som ething about the Isai and the N atakam or K u ttu , before w e proceed to our subject.
21) that the early poem Where there is a reference to this institution is the Maduraikanchai * (line 762). , pp. 211 and 212. X X X li TAMIL used by B uddhists and Jain s for a religious ord er o r coterie, cam e to supersede,” w rites the late Mr. P u rn alin g am :P illai, “ on th e score of its euphony, th e expression, * K u tta m w hich is Tam il, and th e presence of poets of th e B uddhists or Ja in persuasion in th e th ird academ y in m odern M adura (M adhurai, since 1948) accounts for it.