Puram (Tamil: புறம், puṟam, Lit. exterior) is one of two genres of Classical Tamil poetry. The concept of the lifestyle of human beings falls in two categories: personal and public. The genre dealing with poems about love affairs is called Akam (அகம்), while Puram concerns many subjects including wars, kings, poets and personal virtues.[1]
Tolkāppiyam, the earliest work of Tamil grammar and literature available in Tamil, divides each genre into seven strands (Thinai), comparing and connecting the two categories of lifestyle.[2]
Works in the Puram genre reflect on different people's lifestyles, especially that of kings. The works identify personal names, unlike in the Akam genre.[3] Because they include the names of kings, poets, and places, Tamil literary scholars consider them a historical record.[4]
^"The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom: An Anthology of Poems from Classical Tamil, the Purananuru". Columbia University Press. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
^Howes, Jennifer (2002). The Courts of Pre-colonial South India: Material Culture and Kingship. Routledge. p. 111. ISBN978-0-7007-1585-5.
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