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What is sanggam literature

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The Sangam literature (Tamil: சங்க இலக்கியம், caṅka ilakkiyam) is the ancient Tamil literature of the period in the history of south India (known as the Thamizhagam or the Tamilagam) spanning from c. 300 BCE to 300 CE (Akananuru (1, 15, 31, 55, 61, 65, 91, 97, 101, 115, 127, 187, 197, 201, 211, 233, 251, 265, 281, 311, 325, 331, 347, 349, 359, 393, 281, 295), Kurunthogai (11), Natrinai (14, 75) are dated[by whom?] before 300 BCE).[1][2][3][4][5] This collection contains 2381 poems in Tamil composed by 473 poets, some 102 of whom remain anonymous.[6] Most of the available Sangam literature is from the Third Sangam,[7] this period is known as the Sangam period, which refers to the prevalent Sangam legends claiming literary academies lasting thousands of years, giving the name to the corpus of literature.[8][9][10] The only religious poems among the shorter poems occur in paripaatal. The rest of the corpus of Sangam literature deals with human relationship and emotions.[11]

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.

Answer 2

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Sangam period refers to the oldest period of Tamil Literature, which also includes present day Kerala. The first period of tamil literature is called Sangam (சங்கம்) period and the second is Neethi Noolgal .

Tolkappiyam, the oldest known Tamil literature defines the grammar of Tamil Language. It doesn’t allow any word to start with the “sa” sound. Hence word Sangam itself is not a word of Tamil origin. They might have used words like Kulu or koottam  These words, Sangam or Kulu or Kootam itself means a gathering for a conference. There were three such conference held.