தொல்காப்பியரின் மெய்ப்பாட்டுடன் உளவியல் / Tholkappiyar’s Meyppadu (Funtion of Emotions) and Psychology

Abstract

Of the grammar books available today “Tolkappiyam” sought its name and fame all over the world. In general, the word is the word of the subject with three powers. Book nine is divided into nine functions. In the realm of “Tolkappiyam”, it is a treasury of too many news for current psychologists to wonder that like science it had described human behavior before many thousand years now commonly known as psychology. It is not a linguistic treatise but a book of didactic ethics and psychology. It deciphers the intrinsic properties of human behavior and easily visible in the external properties of modern psychology that explores. Any expression in human life is called an act. So, psychology decodes about people's actions and behaviors. It is no wonder in science but in literary treatise if factors the most; one can see the massive internal feelings and emotions of men and women in Meyppadu of “Tholkappiyam”. Psychology is an academic discipline that has been developed in today's world education. In solving people's problems, the work of psychology is essential. It helps to identify the human thoughts and practices. It also pictures life. Long back, Tholkappiyar claims emotions arising in one person overlooking the other. Listening is known as the external code of ‘meyppadu’. Psychology is the manifestation that helps us to decode such thoughts and ideas found in literature. The science of the soul psychology can reveal the events of their existence visible and apparent manifestations in terms of psychological research. This article probes such evidences from the authentic sources.

Keywords

• tholkappiyar
• meyppadu
• funtion of emotions
• psychology