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The Empirical Knowledge of Farmers and Today's Multi-Technical Skills
Get PDFSangam Literature is the repository of the thoughts and deeds of the ancient Tamils. On the basis of that, it is not possible to count the many known achievements made by the intelligence of the ancient Tamils from that day till today. In one of its varieties, organic farming, the Tamilian is a parallel Tamilian. All of agrarian man's intelligence and rationality were scientific. Our agronomists are the ones who have worked empirically on the signals of nature, birds, and animals. They have an intelligence that transcends reason. Everything related to science is being implemented in our motherland. In the tremendous development of our mother tongue, the ancient Tamils have clearly established the science, politics, religion, finance, judicial medicine, multidisciplinary civilization, and culture of the ancient Tamils
Panchaboothankal (Five Elements of Nature) as Depicted in Kurunthokai
Get PDFSangam literature is one of the oldest pieces of literature that deals with the culture and customs of ancient peoples. In this literature, Ettuthokai (the Eight Anthologies) and Patthupaattu (The Ten Idylls) are the best guides for us to understand the aspects of the lives of the people and to live through them, and they provide ideas in many fields, such as science, astronomy, psychology, geography, etc. In that sense, it would not be an exaggeration to say that even though the Kurunthokai songs narrate the lives of the man and the woman, they give way to various creative scientific ideas. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to look at the multifaceted ideas found in the Kurunthokai songs
The Doctrine of Charity in the Books of Aatruppatai
Get PDFIn the Aatruppatai texts, under the title of Eegai (Charity), it is examined how it has been developed from the position of the character to duty, with the change of meaning over time. It has been highlighted that hospitality is the foundation of Tamil culture. Out of the patthuppaattu, the information about the charity is discussed through the five Aatruppatai books: Thirumurukaatrupadai, Porunaratrupadai, Sirupanatrupadai, Perumbaanatrupadai, and Kootharaatrupadai, which is also known as Malaipadukadam, whereby poverty, on one hand, and prosperity, on the other, the unequal compromise that exists in society between the giver and the receiver, has been examined. It has been pointed out that the gift to the Panars differs from the gift given to the poets. It is summed up that the emperors, chieftains, and chieftains gifted them rich dresses, ornaments, their ruled kingdoms, towns, mountains, lotus made of gold, chariots, horses, elephants, and oxen, and food items to the people who came to them, and the ordinary people supplied food items and toddy in their possession in return. The Tamils who excelled in charity have been explained in detail
Women in Devotion and Religions (From the Natural Moral Period to the Religious Period)
Get PDFThe woman was the foremost in the early maternal society. Goddesses were also seen as primary in worship. The elements of natural energy were praised as feminine. They saw them as forces of prosperity. The goddesses found in the worship of nature later entered the religion. The goddess Kali (Kottravai) later became a part of Shiva. Women have been monks in Buddhism and Jainism since the early days of the religion. The female monks performed excellent religious duties. In Saivism and vaishnavism the religion that originated in this Tamil soil, woman was seen as a Part of the God. Historical references to many female theologians are also found in all religions. Christian nuns have been performing well since the arrival of European missionaries. There is a history of blessed women in Islam as well. Yet in later times that dignity of femininity gradually diminished. Equality for woman was denied in all religions. There was a situation where the woman was considered as a defilement. To this day such a situation is found in all religions
Gala Style Novel Preface Liberation War and Tracked Stars
Get PDFA well renowned teacher and collector Dr M. Rajendran has provoked to read “Siru maraikuripinai and Puthinam”. He started to write his ‘1801’ book after realising that our own people failed to understand the heroism of our mighty warriors. East India company has killed many front-line warriors and those who survived were planned to deport to other countries. Generally, deportation was considered as more severe than the death penalty. The book Kala Paani reveals the story of 73 brave men who were deported to Penang from Tuticorin port. This article describes about those deported men’s lives, their families struggle to meet their brave men and the women’s efforts to meet their men, their language proficiency, ingenuity, tacts, experiences, and human nature
Maadhumai’s Ottrai Silambu Feminist Thoughts
Get PDFIn general, both women and men are to be treated the same in the social assessment. Women’s support in enhancing the life quality of men is significant. In today’s day-to-day life, anyone can witness women’s empowerment in all sectors but still, some women face various types of barriers. Either at home or even in the outside world women has to live with the problems of men. Feminist ideology has risen when women started to understand that their feelings and rights were not recognised. Hence in this research article, the poet Maadhumai’s “Ottrai Silambu” poem was taken and studied about the women’s stand
Feminine names in Purananuru
Get PDFThe purpose of this article is to explore the evolution of feminine nouns and also paper trace out possible aspects to know through the Sangam literature that the ancient Tamil people gave importance to tradition in their lives. The uniqueness of the Tamil tradition is that it gives the home life internally and the homeless other life outside. Among them are Purannauru, who San the trio of virtue, Material and Home, which can be praised as Puram, Puranool, Purappattu, Purampu and the Tamil treasury. That is structured and subdivided into classical genetics
Folk Tales in the Novel – Research Based on Cho. Dharman’s Novel Vauvaal Desam
Get PDFFolk tales is one of the art forms. Folk tales are nothing but the experience that are undergone by human beings. Regional novels are based on the folk tale narratives, the context in which they are presented, their definitions and theories. The article is about the folk tales that are presented in Vauvaal Desam novel and how the historical background and cultural features contribute to the plot and character creation of the novel. It also says about the plot and sub plots in the novel and how it has been written in the folk style format and the author’s ideas are researched in the article
Folklore Elements in Vallikannan Novels
Get PDFFolk literature is created by the common people and preserved by them. Vallikannan is a renowned writer, journalist and author of all kinds of literature, his novels Iruttu Raja, Ninaivu charam and Oruveetin Kathi describe the life of Saiva Velalar in Nellai district in a rustic form. Among these games children's games are swinging, playing Tayakkatam, playing by singing and dancing, playing pandi, and playing Kannambuchi. Other common games are folk songs, titling, calling women by their village names, proverbs, folk performances related to religion, celebrating festivals, paying tribute to the village temple during festivals, performing arts, naming, marriage, processions, performing arts programs at weddings. They use figure of speech in their speech. The folk songs, proverbs and local idioms used by the Nellai district people reveals the author's general knowledge and approach to the people. It can be seen that the folk elements found in lullabies, folk tales, songs, stories, fables, myths, proverbs etc are mixed with the character and sentiment of the Tamil people. The article is about the folklore elements found in Vallikannan novels
Life Values in the Proverbs used in Vilavangodu Region
Get PDFProverbs is one of the literary forms. Like folk songs, folk tales, fairy tales etc., proverbs belong to the genre of oral literature. A proverb is a language that originates from primitive knowledge. Describing an object in one or two lines without directly describing it is called riddles. In Tamil it is called pisi or nodi. These riddles help in developing intellectual activities. Mothers use riddles to develop their child's intellectual power. Proverbs have appeared in all the languages and it is intertwined with people's lives. Proverbs have been used by the Tamil people since the ancient time itself. Proverbs is the shortest form of oral language-based folk idioms. It has a great impact on people. Even today riddles are most commonly used by all humans. Our forefathers have used to say proverbs to indicate certain actions in the rural areas, to make comments and create awareness. It is infused with experience and knowledge. It can be said that it is the experience of a society's long-term circulation. In particular, proverbs describe something succinctly, clearly and beautifully. This article is in a position to establish how these proverbs are learned and used by the people Vilavankodu region