Puranānūru

The Puranānūru is an anthology of 400 poems, which describe bardic and martial poetry. The name of the work means, "The Four Hundred about the Exterior." To quote George Hart, "The Puranānūru represents a literary tradition that in its origins and its peculiar traits is separate from any other. It is a work that gives insight to Non- Aryan history of India and enables us to disentangle, to a remarkable extent, the strands of early Indian culture. It is also a...
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The Puranānūru is an anthology of 400 poems, which describe bardic and martial poetry. The name of the work means, "The Four Hundred about the Exterior." To quote George Hart, "The Puranānūru represents a literary tradition that in its origins and its peculiar traits is separate from any other. It is a work that gives insight to Non- Aryan history of India and enables us to disentangle, to a remarkable extent, the strands of early Indian culture. It is also a significant and important work of world literature, treating universal themes in ways that are rather different from any other tradition. The Puranānūru offers us insight into ancient Tamil society. There is abundant information about friendships, kings, warfare, warriors, poets, bards, benefactors, memorial stones, widows of warriors, mothers of warriors, kings seeking wives among ancient clans that resisted these kings, fauna and flora of ancient Tamil Nadu and much more.