SANGAM LITERATURE

LESSON 2. SANGAM LITERATURE
Dear Reader in my Lesson 1 Tholkaappiyam I mentioned that there were three Tamil Snagams and all the works of the First Sanagm were extinct. The lone work of 2nd Tamil Sangam now available is Tholkaappiyam.


SANGAM LITERATURE

Now I am going to tell you about the works that were produced during the third Tamil Sangam which was operating in Vadamadurai the present Madurai under the patronage of the Pandian Kings.

The third Sangam is believed to be in existence between the first and third century AD