There are four hundred and seventy poets known either by their proper names or by causal names called from their works. They consist of two thousand three hundred and seventy-one poems varying from small stanzas of three lines in Ainkurunuru to stanzas of forty lines in Purananuru. October, 1956) நல்ல, ஒத்த ஓங்கு, கற்றறிந்தார் ஏத்தும் ் என்று இத்திறத்த எட்டுத் தொகை Mu.Varadarajan on Ettuthokai at, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 1966 Introduction 0.1 The eight anthologies called Ettuthokai form part of early Tamil literature known as Sangam literature written eighteen centuries ago. Hence this file can be viewed and printed on all.

This pdf file is based on TSCInaimathi font embedded in the file. PuRanAnURu (in tamil script, TSCII format). The ancient Tamil lyrical poetry compiled in ‘The Eight Anthologies’ this poetry is so unique and vigorous, full of such vivid realism and written so masterfully that it can be compared probably only with some of the pieces of ancient Greek lyrical poetry.' (- Czech Professor Dr. Hart and Hank Heifetz add a helpful appendix, an annotated bibliography, and an excellent introduction describing the work and placing it in its social and historical context.'The following works of art and literature are among the most remarkable contributions of the Tamil creative genius to the world's cultural treasure and should be familiar to the whole world and admired and beloved by all in the same way as the poems of Homer, the dramas of Shakespeare, the pictures of Rembrandt, the cathedrals of France and the sculptures of Greece. To this hidden gem of world literature George L. It faces the world as a great and unsolved mystery, delving into living and dying, despair, love, poverty, and the changing nature of existence. One of the few works of classical India that confronts life without the insulation of a philosophical facade and that makes no basic assumptions about karma and the afterlife, the Purananuru has universal appeal. Beyond its importance for understanding the development of South Asia's history, culture, religion, and linguistics, the Purananuru is a great work of literature, reflecting accurately and profoundly the life of southern India 2,000 years ago. It is thus a unique testament to pre-Aryan India.

This anthology of four hundred poems by more than 150 poets between the first and third centuries CE in old Tamil-the literary language of ancient Tamilnadu-was composed before Aryan influence had penetrated the south.

Two prominent translators present the first complete English-language edition of one of India's greatest works of classical literature: the Purananuru.

Purananuru poems in tamil with meaning