Sangham Assembly
- Sangham means assembly of the poets
- 3 such Sangham Assembly Held under PANDYA rulers
- Nothing remained out of the first SANGHAM Assembly as it was believed that it was attended by gods and angels
- only One book is Remaining in 2nd Sangam Assembly, i.e, TOLKAPPIYAM, which is the grammer of tamil
Third Sangam Assembly
- the most important assembly was 3rd one and most of the books and compilation are still intact. This assembly was akf. INCLUSION OF WOMEN. as such out of 473 poets 30 were women. eg:
- Andal
- the poetries or poem of 3rd SA was divided into AHAM & PURAM
- Aham : Subjective Love
- Puram: Objective Love
- all the Prose text of the 3rd SA was also divided into 2 categories
- Kilkanakku => 18 major narrative works
- Malkanakku => 18 minor narrative works
- 2 epics were written
- Silappathikaram: Ilango Adikal
- Kovalan and Madhavi
- mentions about Puppetry
- Manimekalai : Chattanar.
- both the epics talks about socio, political, economic situation of Tamil society
- it also portrays the realistic depiction of the faith and belief of the Tamil society
- Thirukkurul
- written by Thiruvalluvar
- this book talks about moral code of conduct and ethical behavior.
- it is also a book of quotes which talks about how to lead a noble life.
Bhakti Movement
- After sangham bhakti saints of south india ALWAR AND NAYANAR was responsible for spreading Tamil language
- Songs of Nayanars, which were written in Tamil is ka. TEVARAMs
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