Tamil Sangams
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Tamil Sangams were ancient academies of Tamil poets and scholars traditionally believed to have flourished in South India, serving as cultural and literary centers that shaped early Tamil language and literature.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sangam age | 2 |
| First Sangam | 1 |
| Sangam society | 1 |
| Second Sangam | 1 |
| Tamil Sangam culture | 1 |
| Tamil Sangam tradition | 1 |
| Tamil Sangams canonical | 1 |
| Tamil Sangams (literary academies, in tradition) | 1 |
| Third Sangam | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tamil Sangam
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Tamil Sangam ⓘ Tamil Sangam ⓘ Tamil cultural institution ⓘ legendary institution ⓘ literary academy ⓘ |
| associatedTextCorpus |
Ettuthokai
ⓘ
Pattuppāṭṭu ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Madurai ⓘ |
| associatedWithDynasty | Pandya dynasty ⓘ |
| associatedWithLanguage |
Tamil
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surface form:
Tamil language
|
| associatedWithPeople | Tamil people ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion | South India ⓘ |
| associatedWithWork | Tolkāppiyam ⓘ |
| culturalSphere | Dravidian culture ⓘ |
| discipline |
ethics
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grammar ⓘ poetics ⓘ political thought ⓘ |
| historicStatus | subject of scholarly debate ⓘ |
| includes |
Tamil Sangams
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
First Sangam
Tamil Sangams self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Second Sangam
Tamil Sangams self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Third Sangam
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| influenced |
Sangam literature
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Tamil cultural identity ⓘ Tamil grammatical tradition ⓘ early classical Tamil poetry ⓘ |
| legacy |
central motif in Tamil historiography
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symbol of antiquity of Tamil language ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Tamilakam ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
later commentaries on Tolkāppiyam
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medieval Tamil literary prefaces ⓘ |
| mythologicalElement |
extraordinarily long durations
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meetings of gods and sages ⓘ |
| numberOfSangamsInTradition | 3 ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
evaluation of literary works
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patronage of poets and scholars ⓘ promotion of Tamil literature ⓘ standardization of Tamil language ⓘ |
| religiousContext | predominantly secular with religious elements ⓘ |
| roleInTradition |
canonization of early Tamil texts
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setting for poet–patron interactions ⓘ |
| scholarlyView | often treated as symbolic of early Tamil literary assemblies ⓘ |
| sourceType | primarily known from later Tamil literary tradition ⓘ |
| timePeriodTradition | prehistoric to early historic South India ⓘ |
| traditionalLocation |
Kapadapuram
ⓘ
Madurai ⓘ Madurai ⓘ |
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sangam age
this entity surface form:
Sangam society
subject surface form:
Ancient India
this entity surface form:
Sangam age
this entity surface form:
Tamil Sangam culture
this entity surface form:
First Sangam
this entity surface form:
Second Sangam
this entity surface form:
Third Sangam
Eighteen Greater Texts of Tamil (Pattuppāṭṭu and associated epics)
→
associatedWith
→
Tamil Sangams
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subject surface form:
Eighteen Greater Texts of Tamil
this entity surface form:
Tamil Sangam tradition