பாவினங்களும் எண்வகைத் தொடைகளும் / Kinds of PAA and Eight Kinds of Thodaigal

Abstract

Of all the Languages in the world, Tamil Language is the ancient and first Language. Poem is the best genre to exhibit different texts and kinds of objects beautifully with poetic devices using few letters. Poem is easy to hearts and keep it in memory for a long time. So, poetry is greater than prose. It is classified in to four kinds such as Venba, Aasiriyappa, Kalippa and Vanchippa as per the style of sounds during the ancient times. After the Sangam times came Thaazhisai, Thurai and Viruthham type of Poems. In Tholkaapiyar times, Yappiyal poems were not denoted. It is said that the times of Silappathikaram was considered as the turning point. Elangovadigal introduced different and new types of ‘Yaapu’ Thaazhisai, Thurai, Viruthham with a tinge of new grammatical shades in ancient times. It could give whole hearted happiness to the listeners and readers with its sweet rhythmical sounds. The rules and regulations were defined giving priority to ‘Yaapillakkanam’ in the works. Prose writers indicated certain new ideas which was not pointed out by the Yaapilakkana writers. After Tholkappiyam, works such as “Kakkaipaadiniyam”, “Palkayam”, “Avinayam”, “Yaaparungalam”, “Yaapparungalakkarigai”, “Veerasozhiyam”, “Muthu veeriyam” which of all had described about Yaapilakkanam. It is quite natural that the old types of yaapu got changes and new types of yaapu has been created. Hence, the latter types of Yaapiyal works differ form Tholkaapiyar’s Yaapilakkanam in its form. This study focus on the later works of yaapiyal and types of ‘Paa”(Poem) and the changes that occurred in one of the parts of Poetry ‘Thodai’.

Keywords

• thaazhisai
• thurai
• viruthham
• monai
• ethugai.