Therefore it appears that the author of Thirukkural would have lived sometime between 2nd and 5th centuries A. Silappadikaram as they clearly contain few references to Valluvar's couplets in The work isĬonsidered anterior to the two Tamil epics of 2nd to 5th century A.D. To have clearly borrowed some of Kautalya's ideas into his work. Posterior to Arthaśastra (between 250 B.C. Rarely do scholars place ValluvarĪnd his work in the 7th or 8th century AD. Scholars, however, he lived and wrote during Post Sangam Period (300 A.D. as the year of his birth as accepted by the Tamil Academy of , the Tamils in Tamil Nadu have traditionallyĬonsidered 31 B.C. Though the most commonly stated period is 2ndĬentury A.D. Is the case with most Indian works, scholars are divided in their opinion about Written the Kural sometime between the 2nd century B.C. Krishnamurti's Tamil literature through the ages. Velupillai's site on 'Religious Traditions of Tamils' or Information on Tamil, Tamils and their history can be had from the followingĪ. Poetry belonging to the Sangam Age (100 B.C. and itsĬontribution to the field of literature is immense. Grammar is said to have been fixed around 300 B.C. Obtained from inscriptions excavated in 2005 dates the language to around 500 The least subjected to Sanskrit influence. Archaeological evidence The Dravidian languages, however, Tamil has the longest literary history and is Of Sanskrit origin into its native languages including its literatures. Languages is evident from the gradual increase in the percentage of loan words Sanskrit's entry and the impact it had on the local In the Dravidian south India even before Sanskrit entered through north. Languages: the extinct Sanskrit and Pali, and the extant Tamil. The Indian contribution comes through three Literature: The Chinese, Indians and the Jews. Historian Arnold Toynbee, only three people have produced and preserved a

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