Eighteen Greater Texts
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Eighteen Greater Texts
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The Eighteen Greater Texts, known as Patiṉeṇmēlkaṇakku in the literature, is the collection of the oldest surviving Tamil poetry. This collection is considered part of the Sangam Literature and dated approximately between 100 BCE and 200 CE. A series of eighteen major anthologies, it contains the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) and the Ten Idylls (Pattupattu). The songs in the Eighteen Greater Texts anthology are set in the Akaval style. The Eighteen Greater Texts anthology contains 2,381 poems i
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Collection of Tamil poetry anthologies
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