Tiṇaimālai Nūṟṟaimpatu

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Tiṇaimālai Nūṟṟaimpatu (Tamil: திணைமாலை நூற்றைம்பது) is a Tamil poetic work belonging to the Eighteen Lesser Texts (Patinenkilkanakku) anthology of Tamil literature, belonging to the 'post Sangam period' corresponding to between 100 and 500 CE. Tiṇaimālai Nūṟṟaimpatu contains 154 poems written by the poet Kanimeytaviyar.

The poems of Tiṇaimālai Nūṟṟaimpatu deals with the subjective (agam) concepts. Agam in the Sangam literature denotes the subject matters that deal with the intangibles of life such as human emotions, love, separation, lovers' quarrels, etc. The poems of Tiṇaimālai Nūṟṟaimpatu are categorised into 31 poems for each of the five tinai, or landscape of Sangam poetry and describe in detail the situation and emotions specific to each landscape. The five landscapes of Sangam poetry are mullai – forest, kurinji – mountains, marutam – farmland, palai – arid land and neital – seashore.

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