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v. t. e. The Tamil script ( தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடி Tamiḻ ariccuvaṭi [tamiɻ ˈaɾitːɕuʋaɽi]) is an abugida script that is used by Tamils and Tamil speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and elsewhere to write the Tamil language. [ 5] It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic.
The Chola dynasty[ a] ( Tamil: [t͡ʃoːɻɐr]) was a Tamil dynasty originating from southern India. At its height, it ruled over the Chola Empire, an expansive maritime empire. The earliest datable references to the Chola are from inscriptions dated to the 3rd century BCE during the reign of Ashoka of the Maurya empire.
The history of Tamil literature follows the history of Tamil Nadu, closely following the social, economical, political and cultural trends of various periods. The early Sangam literature, dated before 300 BCE, contain anthologies of various poets dealing with many aspects of life, including love, war, social values and religion. [ 1]
Tamil is an agglutinative language – words consist of a lexical root to which one or more affixes are attached. Most Tamil affixes are suffixes . These can be derivational suffixes , which either change the part of speech of the word or its meaning, or inflectional suffixes , which mark categories such as person , number , mood , tense , etc.
Neighbours began with three households, including the Ramsay and Robinson families. [ 1] When storylines for certain characters become tired, the scriptwriters simply move one family out and replace it with a new one. [ 2] Ramsay Street is now a mixture of older characters and newer characters. [ 2] The following is a list of characters and ...
The Cilappatikaram is a Tamil epic that belongs to the pan-India kavya epic tradition. [54] The Tamil tradition and medieval commentators such as Mayilaintar have included the Cilappatikaram as one of the aimperunkappiyankal , which literally means "five great kavyas".
v. t. e. There are literary, archaeological, epigraphic and numismatic sources of ancient Tamil history. The foremost among these sources is the Sangam literature, generally dated to 5th century BCE to 3rd century CE. The poems in Sangam literature contain vivid descriptions of the different aspects of life and society in Tamilakam during this ...
Neelakesi ( Tamil: நீலகேசி, romanized: Nīlakēci, lit. 'Woman with blue hair') is an epic of Jainism. Tamil literary tradition places it among the five lesser Tamil epics, along with Naga kumara kaviyam, Udhyana kumara Kaviyam, Yasodhara Kaviyam and Soolamani. It is a polemical work written as a Jain rebuttal to the Buddhist ...