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‖ Sangam, n.1|ˈsaŋgam|
[Tamil caṅkam, śaṅgam, ad. Skr. saṅgha association.]
Any one of three important Tamil literary academies in southern India which flourished until the 4th century a.d. Also used attrib. to designate the (period of) literature associated with these academies, esp. the third.
1856R. Caldwell Compar. Gram. Dravidian Lang. Introd. 86, It is the concurrent voice of various traditions that Tiruvaḷḷuvar lived before the dissolution of the Madura Sangam; i.e., the college of literati, or board of literary examiners, at Madura. 1897M. S. Sastri Ess. Tamil Lit. i. 40 We should therefore think that the Saṅgams contained only poets who eulogized their patrons by their poetical compositions and were supported by them, and that they were not like the Sanskrit colleges of the northern countries. 1955K. A. N. Sastri Hist. S. India xiv. 348 The literature of the Śangam Age, the oldest body of works now known in the Tamil language. 1966N. Subrahmanian Śaṅgam Polity i. 3 The Tamil Śaṅgam was a body of Tamil scholars or poets, a literary academy, which was established by the Pāṇḍyan kings; and it flourished at Madurai. 1975K. Kripalani in A. L. Basham Cultural Hist. India xxi. 303 The extant Sangam poetry..was written in the second and third centuries A.D., if not earlier. 1984Unesco Courier Mar. 5 Some of the kings of these dynasties are mentioned in Sangam literature..and the age between the 3rd century BC and the 2nd century AD is called the Sangam Age. |