Question

What is sangam age ? Why it is called so?

Answer 1

when many river meets at a place that will called sangam.It is so called because it is a holy place

Answer 2

The Sangam age (first to third century A.D.): 'Sangam' is the Tamil form of Sanskrit word "Sangha" meaning a group of persons or an association. The Tamil Sangam was an Academy of poets and bards, who flourished in three different periods and in different places under the patronage of the Tamil kings