Question

V. Short-Answer Type Questions:
1. Write notes on the 'Literary Activities during the Chola period'. How do you know that they patronised
learned people?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

The literature of the Chola period was partly secular and largely religious. The age of devotional poems had come to an end with the last of the Alvars for Vaishnavite bhaktism and with Manikkavachakar for Saivite religion.

From the tenth century onwards new efforts in a new direction were made by the men of religion. Nambiandar Nambi collected the Tevaram hymns and edited them primarily.

His successors continued the edition till the sacred books of the Saiva canon were made into twelve Tirumurais (the Tamil equivalent of samhitas). Nathamuni, a Vaishnava, had to toil more laboriously to collect the 4000 of their sacred hymns.