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Sangam literature is one of the main sources used for documenting the early history of the ancient Tamil country.
The ancient Sangam poems mention numerous kings and princes, the existence of some of whom have been confirmed through archaeological evidence
Sangam literature is still the main source for the early Cholas, the Pandyas and the Cheras.
Sangam was the ancient academy, which enabled Tamil poets and authors to gather periodically to publish their work.
The Sangam met periodically in the city of Madurai in South India under the patronage of the Pandya kings. The current estimate is that the Sangam period lasted between 400 BCE until 300 CE.
The earliest mention of the Sangam is to be found in the 8th century commentary on the Irayanar Agapporul.
It mentions three Sangams lasting, at long intervals, for a total of 9990 years.
Sangam literature comprises some of the oldest extant Tamil literature, and deals with love, war, governance, trade and bereavement.
Much of the Tamil literature belonging to the Sangam period has been lost.
The literature currently available from this period is perhaps just a fraction of the material produced during this period.


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The Sangam literature (Tamil: சங்க இலக்கியம், Canka ilakkiyam) is the ancient Tamil literature of the period in the history of ancient southern India (known as the Tamilakam) spanning from c. 300 BCE to 300 CE.This collection contains 2381 poems in Tamil composed by 473 poets, some 102 of whom remain anonymous. Most of the available Sangam literature are from the Third Sangam, this period is known as the Sangam period, which referring to the prevalent Sangam legends claiming literary academies lasting thousands of years, giving the name to the corpus of literature. Sangam literature is primarily secular, dealing with everyday themes in a Tamilakam context.

Agastya, Chairman of first Tamil Sangams, Madurai, Pandiya Kingdom

The poems belonging to Sangam literature were composed by Tamil poets, both men and women, from various professions and classes of society. These poems were later collected into various anthologies, edited, and with colophons added by anthologists and annotators around 1000 AD. Sangam literature fell out of popular memory soon thereafter, until they were rediscovered in the 19th century by scholars such as Arumuga Navalar, C. W. Thamotharampillai and U. V. Swaminatha Iyer.

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