tamil was the language used in the literature of sangam period.
tamil was the language used in the literature of sangam period.
who is language was used in the literature of sangam period?
tamil
according to tamil legends, there were three sangam periods, namely head sangam, middle sangam and last sangam period. historians use the term sangam period to refer the last of these, with the first two being legendary. so it is also called last sangam period (), or third sangam period (). the sangam literature is thought to have been produced in three sangam academies of each period. the evidence on the early history of the tamil kingdoms consists of the epigraphs of the region, the sangam literature, and archaeological data.
sangam period
the commentary says that it was written by nakkiranar, son of kanakkayanar. a number of traditions connect nakkiranar with the sangam age. the commentary itself claims to have been written in the sangam age, and names nakkiranar as one of the poets of the third sangam. later legends recorded in the tiruvilayadarpuranam say he was the president of the third sangam, and there are extant sangam poems attributed to a poet by that name. the scholarly consensus, however, is that the commentary was written some centuries after the end of the sangam period, on the basis that its language differs significantly in structure and vocabulary from that of sangam literature, and that it cites verses which use a metre - "kattalaikkalitturai" - not found in sangam literature. zvelebil suggests that the nakkiranar who wrote this commentary may be the same as the composer of the tirumurukarruppatai.
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