Akananuru

E387273

Akananuru is a classical Tamil poetic anthology of 400 love-themed poems that forms a key part of the ancient Sangam literature.

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Label Occurrences
Akananuru canonical 3
Caṅkam corpus 1

Statements (37)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Sangam literature work
Tamil poetic anthology
classical Tamil literature
associatedLandscapeConcept thinai (landscape-based mood classification)
associatedWith Sangam period
surface form: Tamil Sangam period
canonicalStatus major work of Sangam canon
compiledBy multiple poets
contrastedWith Puranānūru
surface form: Purananuru
culturalContext ancient Tamil society
hasCommentarialTradition yes
hasPoemType short lyric poems
influenced later Tamil love poetry
language Tamil
literaryGenre Sangam anthology
akam poetry
literaryImportance key source for early Tamil love poetics
literaryTradition Sangam literature
surface form: Sangam corpus
numberOfPoems 400
numberOfPoets multiple
partOf Ettuthokai
Sangam literature
poeticMeter classical Tamil meters
preservedIn palm-leaf manuscripts
primaryTheme love
region ancient Tamilakam
settingType akam (interior, personal) settings
studiedIn Tamil literary studies
subjectMatter emotions of lovers
interior life
love and relationships
textStructure anthology of independent poems
titleInTamil அகநானூறு
traditionalDating early centuries CE
usedFor study of Sangam poetics
study of ancient Tamil culture
study of classical Tamil language
usesLandscapeImagery yes

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Tamil literature majorWork Akananuru
Ettuthokai contains Akananuru
Pattuppāṭṭu belongsTo Akananuru
this entity surface form: Caṅkam corpus
Tamilakam mentionedIn Akananuru