Silapathikaram, The Magnum Opus of Sangam Era. Many of you would have known about the Tamil Sangam literature. For those who are unfamiliar, let me clarify that Tamil, one of the world’s ancient …
CHENNAI: More than 60 Tamil scholars were taken into custody here on Monday when they came in a procession to install a plaster-of-paris statue of Kannagi, the heroine of the Tamil epic Silapathikaram ...
Tamil has a gravity of expression not found in any language, Russian Tamil scholar Alexander Mikhailovich Dubyanskiy had observed while presenting papers on Tolkappiyam and Silapathikaram at the World ...
Cilappatikāram (Tamil pronunciation: [ʧiləppət̪ikɑːrəm], lit. 'the Tale of an Anklet'), [1] also referred to as Silappathikaram[2] or Silappatikaram, [3] is the earliest Tamil epic. [4] It is a poem of 5,730 lines in almost entirely akaval (aciriyam) meter. [5] The epic is a tragic love story of an ordinary couple, Kaṇṇaki and her husband Kōvalaṉ. [6][7] The Cilappatikāram has ...
Silappathikaram, the earliest epic poem in Tamil, written in the 5th–6th century ad by Prince Ilanko Adikal (Ilango Adigal). Its plot is derived from a well-known story. The Silappathikaram tells of the young merchant Kovalan’s marriage to the virtuous Kannaki (Kannagi), his love for the courtesan
CONTENTS OF THIS SECTION Kannagi Statute at Marina sea front, Chennai, unveiled during the 1968 International Tamil Conference "A unique feature of the Kannagi statue is that it was put up entirely with contributions from students all over the State. They contributed even 50 paise and one rupee'' M. Karunanidhi Kannagi statue reinstated in Chennai Marina, 3 June 2006 Discourse on Kannagi, the ...