Tolkāppiyam, also romanised as Tholkaappiyam (Tamil: தொல்காப்பியம் listen , lit. "ancient poem"), is the most ancient extant Tamil grammar text and the...
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extensively described in the oldest available grammar book for Tamil, the Tolkāppiyam (dated between 300 BCE and 300 CE). Modern Tamil writing is largely based...
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the arrangement of the Katantra to those of the Aindra school and the Tolkāppiyam. New Catalogus Catalogorum. Vol. III. p. 306. "Sanskrit Dictionary"....
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Varuna (section In Tolkappiyam)
Vedic sage Vasishtha. He is also mentioned in the Tamil grammar work Tolkāppiyam, as Kadalon the god of sea and rain. He is found in Japanese Buddhist...
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date, is definitely a later addition to the original Tolkāppiyam. According to the Tolkāppiyam preface, "the virtuous land in which Tamil is spoken as...
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which is substantially similar to the writing system described in the Tolkāppiyam, an ancient Tamil grammar. Most notably, they used the puḷḷi to suppress...
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script called Tamil Brahmi. The earliest long text in Old Tamil is the Tolkāppiyam, an early work on Tamil grammar and poetics, whose oldest layers could...
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Perumal (deity) (section Tolkāppiyam)
the deity associated with the mullai tiṇai (pastoral landscape) in the Tolkappiyam. He is regarded to be the only deity who enjoyed the status of Paramporul...
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floods. From the second Sangam, states the legend, the Akattiyam and the Tolkāppiyam survived and guided the third Sangam scholars. A prose commentary by...
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floods. From the second Sangam, states the legend, the Akattiyam and the Tolkāppiyam survived and guided the third Sangam scholars. Agastya convened this...
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the Tolkāppiyam. Modern Tamil writing is largely based on the 13th-century grammar Naṉṉūl which restated and clarified the rules of the Tolkāppiyam, with...
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present-day Tamil Nadu, Kerala and parts of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Tolkāppiyam (2nd to 1st century BCE) indicates the borders of Tamilakam as Tirumala...
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Vaishnavism in Ancient Tamilakam (section Tolkāppiyam)
the deity associated with the mullai tiṇai (pastoral landscape) in the Tolkappiyam. He is regarded to be the only deity who enjoyed the status of Paramporul...
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and particles). The ancient work on the grammar of the Tamil language, Tolkāppiyam, argued to have been written around 2nd century CE, classifies Tamil...
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the deity associated with the mullai tiṇai (pastoral landscape) in the Tolkappiyam. Tamil Sangam literature (200 BCE to 500 CE) mentions Mayon or the "dark...
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the deity associated with the mullai tiṇai (pastoral landscape) in the Tolkāppiyam. Tolkappiyar[clarification needed] mentions Mayon first when he made...
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grammar called Virasoliyam. Commentaries were written on the great text Tolkāppiyam which deals with grammar but which also mentions ethics of warfare. Periapuranam...
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3rd century CE. The third version, assumed to be the basis for early Tolkāppiyam, evolved into the modern Tamil script. The Bhattiprolu script is related...
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commentators Pingala (c. 200 BC), Katyayana, and Patanjali (2nd century BC). Tolkāppiyam, the earliest Tamil grammar, is mostly dated to before the 5th century...
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underline the universality of the feelings expressed in their poetry. The Tolkāppiyam identifies ten categories of names. An̲n̲i Mirutalakumāri Tāmacu claims...
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only half a sound unit, compared to 1, 1.5 or 2 of other vowels) in tolkāppiyam and it is unrounded even in literary Tamil; in spoken Tamil it can occur...
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Topics in Sangam literature Sangam literature Agattiyam Tolkāppiyam Eighteen Greater Texts Eight Anthologies Aiṅkurunūṟu Akanāṉūṟu Puṟanāṉūṟu Kalittokai...
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Ulā Grammars and dictionaries Agattiyam Nannūl Purapporul Venbamaalai Tolkāppiyam Caturakarāti Tamil Lexicon dictionary History Yāḻpāna Vaipava Mālai Mathematics...
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Year Date Event 200 BCE Kuninda Kingdom is established. Tolkāppiyam describes the grammar and morphology of Tamil; it is the oldest existing Tamil grammar...
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assigned to these potsherds. The earliest long text in Old Tamil is the Tolkāppiyam, a work on Tamil grammar and poetics preserved in a 5th-century CE redaction...
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composition of eighteen minor poetic works Patiṉeṇkīḻkaṇakku; while Tolkāppiyam, the earliest grammarian work in the Tamil language was developed. Also...
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known for its dramatic and lyrical qualities and which, according to Tolkappiyam is well suited to express the emotions of the lovers. There is repetition...
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e. mid-April as the commencement of the year in the Puṟanāṉūṟu. The Tolkappiyam is the oldest surviving Tamil grammar text that divides the year into...
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Murugan on Tamil literature of South India. Leiden. Zvelebil dates the Ur-Tolkappiyam to the 1st or 2nd century BCE Ramaswamy, Vijaya (1993). "Women and Farm...
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book Naṉṉūl which incorporates facets from the old Tamil literary work Tolkāppiyam. The Tamil grammar is classified into five divisions, namely eḻuttu (letter)...
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