- 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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etymology of the name. The
earliest attested use of the name is
found in
Tholkappiyam,
which is
dated as
early as late 2nd
century BCE. The
Hathigumpha inscription...
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Kautalya in Arthashastra. The
grammar followed was Budapuranam, Agattiyam,
Tholkappiyam,
Mapuranam and Isai Nunukkam. The
poems attributed to
second academy...
- India. This
Tamil literature includes the
oldest grammatical treatise,
Tholkappiyam, and the
epics Silappatikaram and Manimekalai.
References to Kannada...
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Tamil literature of
South India. Leiden: Brill.
Zvelebil dates the Ur-
Tholkappiyam to the 1st or 2nd
century BCE "Silappathikaram
Tamil Literature". Tamilnadu...
- to the
Sixth century C.E., 2nd Edition. p. 271.
Ilakkuvanar S (1994).
Tholkappiyam in
English with
critical studies (2nd ed.).
Educational Publisher. Cratylus...
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performance arts and
later in a
Tamil text
called Kootha nool
taken from
Tholkappiyam (250 BCE).
Natya Shastra is
attributed to the
ancient scholar Bharata...
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scholars printed and
published Kalittokai (1887),
Tholkappiyam,
Nachinarkiniyar Urai (1895),
Tholkappiyam Senavariyar urai (1868),
Manimekalai (1898), Silappatikaram...
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containing tall huge
walls made of bronze.
According to a
commentary on
Tholkappiyam, the
earliest long work of
Tamil literature,
eighteen clans of the Velirs...
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local traditions and
tribal religions.
Ancient Tamil grammatical works Tholkappiyam, the ten
anthologies Pattuppāṭṭu, the
eight anthologies Eṭṭuttokai sheds...
