Tolkāppiyar
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Tolkāppiyar is the legendary ancient Tamil grammarian traditionally credited with composing the Tolkāppiyam, the earliest extant work on Tamil grammar and poetics.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tamil grammarian
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ancient scholar ⓘ legendary figure ⓘ |
| associatedDiscipline |
Aintinai (five landscapes) poetics
NERFINISHED
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Tamil prosody ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Sangam literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWorkStructure | Tolkāppiyam divided into Ezhuttatikāram Sollatikāram Porulatikāram GENERATED ⓘ |
| chronology | exact dates uncertain ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
Dravidian linguistics
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Tamil literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
grammar
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linguistics ⓘ poetics ⓘ |
| genreOfMainWork |
grammar treatise
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poetics treatise ⓘ |
| influenceOn |
Tamil literary theory
ⓘ
classical Tamil poetry ⓘ later Tamil grammatical tradition ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Tamil grammar
ⓘ
Tamil poetics NERFINISHED ⓘ authoring the Tolkāppiyam ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Tamil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legacy |
basis for later commentarial traditions on Tolkāppiyam
ⓘ
standard reference for classical Tamil usage ⓘ |
| mainWorkStatus |
classical Tamil text
ⓘ
earliest extant Tamil grammatical work ⓘ |
| nameInTamilScript | தொல்காப்பியர் NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reception | highly revered in Tamil scholarly tradition ⓘ |
| region | ancient Tamilakam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reveredAs | foundational authority on Tamil grammar ⓘ |
| status | historicity debated ⓘ |
| tradition | Tamil Shaiva–Vaishnava literary milieu ⓘ |
| traditionalPeriod | Sangam age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| work | Tolkāppiyam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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