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Aintinai Aimpatu
Aintinai Aimpatu ("fifty stanzas on the fivefold landscape-love behavior") is a classical Tamil poetic work of fifty love poems by Pulli Maran Poraiyanar, part of the Pathinenkilkanakku.
Eighteen Lesser Texts
Eighteen Lesser Texts (Pathinen Keelkanakku) is a Tamil corpus of eighteen short post-Sangam works, mostly on ethics and love poetry, including the Thirukkural and Naladiyar.
Kannadasan (கண்ணதாசன்)
Kannadasan (கண்ணதாசன்), born Muthiah, 1927–1981, was the Kaviarasu of Tamil cinema: over 5,000 film lyrics, 4,000 poems, Arthamulla Indhu Matham, Yesu Kaaviyam, Sahitya Akademi and National Film Award winner.
Mullaippattu
Mullaippattu (முல்லைப்பாட்டு) is a classical Tamil Sangam poem, the fifth of the Ten Idylls, composed by Nappūthanār on a wife's patience during her husband's war.
Mutalayiram
Mutalayiram (முதலாயிரம், "the First Thousand") is the first of the four divisions of the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, the Tamil hymns of the twelve Azhvars, spanning pasurams 1 to 947.
Narrinai
Narrinai (நற்றிணை), also called Naṟṟiṇai Nāṉūṟu, is a classical Tamil anthology of 400 love poems, one of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) of Sangam literature, conventionally dated to roughly 300 BCE to 300 CE.
Perumal Tirumoli
Perumal Tirumoli (பெருமாள் திருமொழி, "the sacred words of the Lord") is a ninth-century Tamil bhakti work by Kulasekara Alvar of 105 verses in ten decades praising Vishnu.
Purapporul Venbamalai
Purapporul Venbamalai (புறப்பொருள் வெண்பாமாலை) is a Tamil grammar treatise on puram, the war and public-life themes of classical poetry, usually dated to the 9th century CE.
Sangam literature (சங்க இலக்கியம்)
Sangam literature (சங்க இலக்கியம்), also called the Cankam corpus, is the oldest surviving classical Tamil poetry: 2,381 poems by 473 poets in the Eight Anthologies and Ten Idylls, conventionally dated 300 BCE–300 CE, with disputed later dating.
Siddhar poetry
Siddhar poetry (சித்தர் பாடல்கள்) is Tamil verse by the Siddhars, ascetics believed to have attained spiritual perfection, covering devotion, yoga, gnana, and medicine; tradition recognizes eighteen Siddhars, including Tirumular and Bogar.
Tamil literature
Tamil literature (தமிழ் இலக்கியம்) is the body of written and oral work in the Tamil language, spanning about 25 centuries from the Sangam classics to the present.
Thamizh Iyakkam
Thamizh Iyakkam (தமிழியக்கம், "the Tamil movement") is a Tamil-language work by the twentieth-century Tamil poet Bharathidasan, printed by the Periyar Self-Respect Propaganda Institution in Chennai in 1984.
Tinaimalai Nurru Aimpatu
Tinaimalai Nurru Aimpatu (திணைமாலை நூற்றைம்பது) is a classical Tamil poem by Kanimeytaviyar, one of the eighteen Pathinen Keezhkanakku works, treating the five tinai love-landscape modes in 153 verses.
Tirumurai
Tirumurai, known in full as Panniru Thirumurai, is the twelve-book canon of Tamil Shaiva devotional hymns and poetry in praise of Shiva, composed between the sixth and twelfth centuries.
Tiruppalliyelucci
Tiruppalliyelucci (திருப்பள்ளியெழுச்சி; also transliterated Thiruppalliyezhuchi) is a Tamil devotional song genre sung at pre-dawn in Shaiva and Vaishnava temples to wake the deity, the Tamil equivalent of the Sanskrit Suprabatham.