Sangam Age Literature And Society
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EXAMIVERSE
Literary Assemblies and Corpus
- First Sangam (legendary): Held at Madurai; no surviving works.
- Second Sangam at Kapāṭapuram: Only Tolkāppiyam (grammar treatise) survives.
- Third Sangam at Madurai: Produced major anthologies:
- Ettuttokai (Eight Anthologies) – lyrical poems on love (Akam) and war (Puram)
- Pattuppāṭṭu (Ten Idylls) – long narrative poems celebrating rulers and landscapes
- Pathinenkilkaṇakku (Eighteen Minor Texts) – didactic works on ethics and society
- Two epic compositions: Cilappatikāram and Manimekalai