Paripāṭal

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Paripāṭal is a classical Tamil poetic anthology from the Sangam era, notable for its devotional and landscape-themed poems composed to specific musical tunes.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Paripaadal 1
Paripadal 1
Paripāṭal canonical 1

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Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Sangam literature work
Tamil poetic anthology
classical Tamil literature
associatedLandscape cities
rivers
temple environments
associatedWith Sangam literature
surface form: Sangam corpus

Tamil classical music
composedTo specific musical tunes
contains poems
culturalContext ancient Tamilakam
culturalHeritageStatus classical work of Tamil heritage
form anthology
genre devotional poetry
landscape poetry
hasMusicalNotation yes
hasTheme description of sacred places
nature and landscape description
praise of deities
religious festivals
influenced later Tamil devotional literature
language Tamil
literaryPeriod Sangam period
surface form: Sangam era
literarySignificance one of the major anthologies of Sangam literature
literaryTradition Tamil Sangam poetry
mentionsDeity Krishna
Murugan
Shiva
Varadaraja Perumal
surface form: Thirumal

Vishnu
meter paripāṭal metre
notableFor composition to specific musical tunes
devotional poems
landscape-themed poems
preservationState partially extant
region South India
religiousContext Tamil Hindu tradition
religiousTheme Hindu devotionalism
Shaivism
Vaishnavism
script Tamil script
timeOfComposition early centuries CE
usesConcept Sangam landscape (tiṇai) system

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sangam literature hasPart Paripāṭal
Tamil literature majorWork Paripāṭal
this entity surface form: Paripaadal
Tamil literature notablePoeticForm Paripāṭal
this entity surface form: paripaadal
Ettuthokai contains Paripāṭal
this entity surface form: Paripadal