Some poems are gnomic in nature, which have attracted unrealistic attempts to read an ethical message, states Zvelebil. These panegyric poems recite their heroic deeds, as well as another 109 poems that recite deeds of anonymous heroes likely of older Tamil oral tradition. Of its 400 poems, 138 praise 43 kings – 18 from the Chera dynasty (present day Kerala), 13 Chola dynasty kings, and 12 Early Pandyan dynasty kings. ![]() This anthology has been variously dated between 1st-century BCE and 5th-century CE, with Kamil Zvelebil – a Tamil literature scholar, dating predominantly all of the poems of Purananuru sometime between 2nd- and 5th-century CE.The Purananuru anthology is diverse. The collected poems were composed by 157 poets, of which 14 are anonymous and at least 10 were poetess. It is a collection of 400 heroic poems about kings, wars and public life, of which two are lost and a few have survived into the modern age in fragments. ![]() ![]() The Purananuru (Tamil: புறநானூறு, Puṟanāṉūṟu ?, literally "four hundred in the genre puram"), sometimes called Puram or Purappattu, is a classical Tamil poetic work and traditionally the last of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) in the Sangam literature. ![]() Wikipedia (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:
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