Early Tamil Society and Culture
Tamil society and culture in the past
As we have shown, Tamil culture dates back at least three centuries before the Common Era (CE). Tamil traders and sailors built commerce and cultural ties across the oceans as seafarers, and dealers from other countries paid visits to the Tamil peninsula.
Pathinen Kilkanakku (18 minor works)
The Pathinen Kilkanakku contains eighteen texts explaining morals and ethics. The pre-famous work among these is the Thirukkural made by Thiruvalluvar. In 1330 couplets Thirukkural examines solicitations of moral quality, statecraft and love.
The Five Stories
The stories or Kappiyams are long record work of astoundingly wonderful. They are,
•Silappathikaaram
•Manimekalai
•Seevaka Chinthamani
•Valaiyapathi
•Kundalakesi
Epigraphy
Epigraphy is the assessment of engravings. Engravings are records facilitated on stone, copper plates, and different media like coins, rings, and so on. The improvement of content means the start of the certain period. The period before the utilization of made script is called old period. Tamil-Brahmi was the fundamental substance utilized for writing in Tamil Nadu. Etchings in Tamil-Brahmi are found in sinkholes and rock covers, and on pottery and different things (coins, rings and seals).
Tamil-Brahmi engravings
Tamil-Brahmi etchings have been tracked down in excess of 30 complaints in Tamil Nadu overall on cave surfaces and rock covers. These sinkholes were the homes of priests, by and large Jaina pastors. The standard sinkholes were changed over into home by slicing a spill line to keep storm water away from the cavern. Engravings constantly happen under such spill lines. The locale have smooth stone beds cut on rock surface for priests who had an unmistakable presence and lived in these places of refuge. Dealers and lords changed over these run of the mill courses of action as home for ministers, who had denied typical life. Mangulam, Muttupatti, Pugalur, Arachalur and Kongarpuliyankulam and Jambai are a piece of the basic complaints of such caverns with Tamil-Brahmi engravings. Around Madurai many such caverns with Tamil-Brahmi etchings can in any case be seen. A huge number of them are organized along old transportation ways.
Focal points for the examination of early Tamil society
The focal points for duplicating the authentic background of the obsolete Tamils are:
· Old style Tamil composition
· Epigraphy (inscriptions)
· Archeological unearthings and material culture
· Non-Tamil and New Composition
The Dated Sangam Tamil Composition
The Outdated Sangam corpus (collection) includes the Tholkappiyam, the Pathinen Melkanakku (18 Critical works) and the Pathinen Kilkanakku (18 minor works) and the five legends.
Tholkappiyam
Tholkappiyam, attributed to Tholkappiyar, is the earliest created work on Tamil accentuation. Beside making sense of the standards of grammar, the third piece of Tholkappiyam moreover portrays pure shows that give information on Tamil public movement.
The texts of Pathinen Melkanakku integrate Pathupaattu (ten long tunes) and Ettuthogai (the eight assortments). These texts are the most settled among the dated Tamil texts. The texts of Pathinen Kilkanakku have a spot with a later date.
The Ettuthogai or the eight treasurys are
•Nattrinai
•Kurunthogai
•Paripaadal
•Pathittrupathu
•Aingurunuru
•Kalithogai
•Akanaanuru
•Puranaanuru
Pathupattu grouping consolidates ten long tunes
Thirumurugatrupadai
Porunaratrupadai
Perumpanatruppadai
Sirupanatrupadai
Mullaipaattu
Nedunalvaadai
Maduraikanchi
Kurinjipaattu
Pattinappaalai
Malaipadukadam
Engravings
Earthenware vessels from the Early Essential Time frame have names of individuals engraved on them in Tamil-Brahmi script. Potsherds have been found in Arikkamedu, Azhagankulam, Kodumanal, Keezhadi, and different regions in Tamil Nadu. Stoneware engraved with names in Tamil-Brahmi script have in this way been found in Berenike and Quseir al Qadhim in Egypt and in Khor Rori in Oman showing that early Tamils had exchange contacts with West Asia and along the Red Ocean coast. Individuals slice their names on stoneware to display proprietorship. A basic number of the names are in Tamil while some are in Prakrit.
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